I have a show in St. George this weekend so I’ve been working on a bunch of new paintings. I want to keep things fresh, you know? The show is called the Open Air Art Affair and it’s being put on by Ed Wallace and Gayla Prince Wallace. I’ve been to a few of their shows now and they’re really nice. I love the atmosphere and it’s really fun to meet other artists and art lovers. Anyway, here are my latest paintings. I’ve actually finished 2 more as well as these but they haven’t been photographed yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to post them tomorrow.

This photo is much more true to the colors of the original painting.

Last night I finnished my 3rd painting in my Zion’s park series. I enjoyed this one while I was working on the rock itself but the trees were not as fun. I like to use watercolor to paint trees but that just wasn’t practical on this one since they were close up pine trees. Pencil made more sense and they turned out just fine. They just took a long time and it was rather tedious work. Oh well, all’s well that ends well and I think this came out quite nicely. I’ll try to get a better photo up as soon as I can. The sky is actually blue all the way across!

This is a painting I did from a photo that was taken in Zion’s national park. A gallery down there wants me to do a bunch of paintings of the area so my family and I went and took a ton of pictures and this is the result of one of those photos. The one below of the cowboy was from the same photoshoot. The cowboy is actually my brother Shane. Anyway, I just finished this last night and really like the way it came out.

This is my newest painting. As usual it’s not the best photo but I thought I’d post it anyway. I just finished it today and I really like how it turned out. The cowboy, ground, and some of the plants are colored pencil and the trees are mostly watercolor.