Fun Painting this semester

8X8 Acrylic Woodland Creature 

I finally feel like I'm stepping out of my shell and stretching myself a bit with this assignment. A lot of my sketches have this sort of fantasy surrealistic feel to it but so far my traditional finished pieces have had nothing of the sort. I love this piece for me because I got to explore my style and speak how I wanted. Also I love acrylic. This is one of my first pieces in this medium.

Our next assignment is going to include a vehicle of some sort but it can be designed and painted however we choose so long as it includes some form of transportation from another country or time era. Anything that doesn't exist we can say is from the future so I think I will be having fun with it.

Last Semester

The following images were done last semester and the top two portraits are what I consider to be the most successful and the bottom was my final. the top two were sold to the models in them. It was a good deal :) I learned a lot of things under Robert Barrett. He was a great teacher.

Yay for finals week!

I have done sooooo many paintings this semester! 15 for my class alone! Not including the three digital paintings I have done for the book or the chalk the block, or any thing I have done in my free time. Holy moly. This is a sneak peek to my latest and greatest and final piece for the illustration 2 class this semester with Bob Barrett. He has been a great teacher, I have learned tons thanks to him! Wish me luck to the critique on Thursday and my french test! :D

Semester Paintings

 




So we're about half way through the semester and I have been doing a lot of paintings for my class. I think it's about time I post these so you guys can see what I've been up to along side of learning french and planning a wedding and working. :) All of these are done with oil paints. And there are tons more coming.

Happy Halloween!

So I have had some good things come to pass and some not so good things. As far as life in general, amazing! As far as art, I couldn't be more frustrated. I have been working on a book for this guy who wants to publish these African folklore children's E-book. It's way cool! I finished the first book with 15 illustrations no problem except he wanted the resolution to be hire, but no problem, he loves them overall and wants me to do two more books great! Well then my computer dies. Along with it my photoshop program I have been working solely in for the past few months to get these done. I get a rental computer with all the gigs on it so I can continue working on stuff until I get a new computer and then, bam! My tablet dies! And I just got both of those in the spring! So now even with the rental computer I still can't do much with the next book I'm supposed to be working on. I haven't posted anything really since the chalk thing because every time I go to draw something that isn't for class I feel guilty kind of because I know there is this project I'm supposed to be doing, but I just can't do it. My lovely fiance is kind enough to let me use his tablet and photoshop on occasion but I still don't get near enough time to work on it. I have done a lot for my illustration class however and I shall post from that soon, but in the meantime when I have truly felt the urge to draw I have and it's Halloween so I had to do something for it even if it was quick and still left unfinished, here are two recent drawings of mine. I drew them in my sketchbook then brought them onto photoshop and just photomanipulated them to give them color. More stuff to come!

The Pumpkin King and the Ghost

Trick of Treat

Chalk the Block Won Best of Show!

      It all started a week ago when Josh came to my apartment dressed like a pirate, dressed me like a pirate and drove me all around Provo in our pirate ship (car with pirate flag sticking out the top with blasting Pirates of the Caribbean music.) to search for buried treasure. We first stopped by Pirate Island where we first met, then to the Castle Amphitheater where we went the night we started dating, then on to Rock Canyon Trail where the treasure was sure to be hid. It was deep in a cave and I had to dig it out, whence I did, he pulled me off the trail and got down on one knee pulled out the ring box from inside the chest, opened it and looked deep into my eyes. He then said, "Sarah, I love you so much, and with all of my heart I ask you this, Will you marry me?" I blushed and giggled and of course said, "Yes!" 

That was the first step. 

We got an email saying there was an open spot at the Chalk the Block festival at the shop at River Woods the next upcoming Saturday. We took it up of course, just for fun. It was on our list of things to do for a date and this was the perfect opportunity. Josh went ahead and whipped up a rough sketch on photoshop and gridded it out. After I finished all my french homework and test reviews, we got our tape and our tape measure, my camera, some extra chalk and headed over to our spot at about 5pm on Friday.  We knew there was a contest going on, but we did not go in to win, though we did joke about it a little bit, it was purely fun for us. Since it was both of our first times doing a chalk piece at this magnitude and also our first piece together ever, we were absolutely ecstatic to hear our number called for best of show. I could not have done something like this without Josh. He is absolutely amazing and we discovered that we work awesome together. I hope we do more stuff like this in the future. 

We used the soft pastel chalk that was handed out to us and barely used one box. It was an 8'x8' image and we completed it with 7 hours total working time. We started with the sky and worked our way down. Josh did mostly the right side and I did mostly the left side. Pictures of the step by step process can be found here on my facebook profile page. 

Two Things:

First: I am getting married in December!!! Aahhhhhh!!!!!! :DDDD

Second: I'll be chalkin the block come Friday and Saturday Sept 21-22 at the River woods in utah county, if you happen to be around come check it out. I'll be doing a collaborative piece with my new fiancé, Josh Keele, his blog here: http://joshsimagination.blogspot.com/. It will be our first one together and I am really excited!!! I'll post pics up after the event.