A Moment in Moab

Arches National Park in Moab, Utah is gorgeous.  My wife and I went on our honeymoon there.  I've always wanted to do some art project related to it and here you go!  A few things I learned from my brilliant professor Rob Mckay are:

A really really wonderful day

A couple good friends of mine got married today.  Photoshop fun for 3.5 hours

Primrose

I wanted to give my wife some flowers that would last for a while, so here they are. 8"x6" acrylic.  4 hours.

Fruit

8"x6" acrylic study.  3 hours

Candle

8"x6" acrylic study.  In this painting, I tried a technique from a painter named Larry Seiler.  The technique involves making confident brush strokes and not going more than 3 strokes without reloading the brush with additional paint.  It takes up a lot of paint, but it was kind of fun.  3 hours.

Makeup

This was an 8"x6" acrylic study I did this evening in class.  It is destined to be my first bathroom painting.  
3 hours

Michaelangelo

Here is my first piece from my painting class at the community college.  I picked a Ninja Turtle action figure because Ninja Turtles were really one of the first things that lit my fire to be an artist. 11" x 14" acrylic on illustration board.  9 hours.

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