MY ART!

So one thing that is part of my blood is my art work. I have recently taken some different pictures of my art... I concentrate my work on four main subjects nature, eyes, hands, and faces. I feel like the eyes, hands, and faces are so very different and you can tell so much about a person by looking at those three things... When I was much younger I wanted to be a person that had great DEEP wrinkles. Because it adds so much character to your face it is almost as if you could tell someones life story just by their wrinkles. Now I do not care so much about that...

This is a leather piece. My friend Mike is a pro at carving and sculpting leather... this is my first attempt. I tagged him to this photo so that if you need a sweet leather seat for your motorcycle you know who to turn to.

I love faces. This piece is made from copper and fits in the palm of my hand.



You can tell a lot about the person by their hands. Notice the picture in the upper left which I actually just realized I placed it up side down in this photo...



I felt like it was someone reaching down and grabbing hold of someone that is not wanting to be saved... in other words God taking hold of someone in their last hours and saving them...

Eyes also state so much about someone... notice most eyes have some kind of 3-D look to them. Every eye is different... think about that for a second... the design in just one eye is amazing. What else does that tell us about our creator?

Drawing similar to the artist Katsushika Hokusai, I used several of his pieces to create this... I think if I ever got a tattoo it would be of two Koi fish fighting up stream.
--- I like this cause I feel like I too have over come so many different obstacles in life.


This was a high-school project that I am still working on. I have hit several hangups with it... mainly when I was in high-school I did not think about how I was going to finish it off... if you have any suggestions I am more than willing to talk with you about that.

Ends to a box I am trying to finish...
These are the sides to the box

This is the lid to the box... and the second piece I have ever carved...

I create these out of one piece of wood and the whole vision comes from my head. I really do not not look at any thing to get to this point. It is a form of connecting with God for me. I created this piece this last year and to see if I could make a business of it. But I could not find a viable way to market myself. If anyone wants one... I can talk price with you and work with you to create something specifically for you. This took me just a week to create and just think you could have something like this hanging on your wall within one week too.

This is first piece I had ever carved... this is actually three pieces of pine glued together... I thought at one point to cut this in half down the center and make cabinet doors out of this. But I could not get up the guts to cut it in half. But again if you want a set of cabinet doors or a lid to a box or... Lets talk and I can create something for you!

Views

You have got to love this view from my house!

Life and portraits...

So a lot has happened since the last time I posted... Personally, I have been working on the basement of our house. We have been in the process for over the last year or so, to finish it off. We have been though a lot. A lot of people have stated that they have wanted to help out but only a few have. That being said, Mike Van Milligen has been a big help through all of this recently! He has helped me think through flow of the space and has been there to help with plumbing and framing and other things! I also appreciated a dear friend John Anderson and his helper Greg Collins who rewired the basement in a day!

On the business side of things I have two portrait shoots below that I have worked on during this time that I have not posted yet.

Mike G. is someone who works with my wife Taryn. We went to Wheeler Farm in Murray, Utah and had a fun time. Mike's son David had a lot of different expressions. I tried to capture it in the collage I put together for Mike. Mike is a great guy that loves his son! One of the most memorable things was David kept on asking how many pictures were left to take. Very reminiscent of my childhood when I would ask my parents are we there yet!





The second session was of Jim and Lynn G.




Several months ago we had lunch with Jim and Lynn at which point they wanted to get their family portraits taken but Jim had just had knee surgery. Long story short, we just got around to taking the pictures two weeks ago. Jim and Lynn have three boys that I really enjoyed getting to know. The boys are full of energy and love being boys and playing killer bunnies (card game for those who do not know). My wife and I both enjoyed spending time with them and look forward to developing a friendship with them.