So for my birthday I bought an old pentax K1000 film camera and decide to go around Rexburg and take pictures. The picture above is scanned in and unedited and the one below is edited in Photoshop. So for any of you that read this blog which do you think is better and or does the top photo stand on its own? You can also vote on it in the poll to the right.
When we went to Florida we went deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. On the party boat I was looking at the anchor and the rusty chains and took this picture. The rope is connected to a large chain then to the anchor. It moves up and down electronically and is tied in a knot by one of the maids working on the boat.
This was a painting done for an independent study class this last semester. The project was to create 6 large scale paintings. Size being around 3 feet by 4 feet or larger. I made all the canvases out of masonite board.
This is an alley way in downtown Idaho Falls with the added bonus of having power lines running across. I think I have a fascination with power lines and how the whole big mess of wires get sorted out. As a side note this ally is next to a old hotel converted in shops and one of the shop is a Russian grocery store which has some good stuff to try.
This was a ball point pen drawing of a young man at church. Later on I had been given some watercolors and decide to give them a try and it was a lot of fun.
We rented a beach house on the Gulf of Mexico where we had a great view and could go out on to the beach whenever we liked. The first picture is me in the moonlight on the beach. The moon was full and all the beach homes had to keep their lights low for the sea turtles. They lay their eggs and the hatchlings use the moonlight to go back out to sea. So if the house lights are too bright they go the wrong way. The second is of our view at sunset. All and all it was a great time.
So I finished my semester at school and I am now back in California. This was a photo taken way back in 2006 when me and my brother would go out on the town and take pictures of Stockton. This building is long since gone. I also decided to post this picture because I thought Nick might get a kick out of it.
This semester I am in a ceramics class and wanted to show what I have been working on. I know it is a little hard to tell the sizes of the pottery in these pictures but most of them are 6 to 7 in. wide and 5 to 7 in. tall with the exception of two or three pieces. I really like pottery and I think that going in to the class I knew what kind of pots I liked and didn't like. But what I think I got coming out of the class is what makes a good pot and a bad pot. So trust me when I say it hard to make a good piece of pottery.
These are the last of the oil painting projects. These are the paintings where we are to use everything we have learn in the class to make great paintings. The multiple fruit still life was our final for the class.
Here are a few more paintings that were done for my intro oil painting class. The projects were ( from top to bottom) based on value, warm vs. cool light and intensity.
