Princess

This is an illustration I have been working on in my spare time. It used an old drawing as inspiration. I am quite happy with the final product.

Bamboo Hut Posters 2

Here are the final images for the Bamboo Hut posters. The art director wanted them to look nostalgic, textured and faded. They are going to be reproduced in a large format to be installed in a new Salt Lake Location opening this month. I'm still not sure if I like this version or the original better.

Bamboo Hut Posters

About a week and a half ago I got a call to create 3 posters for the Bamboo Hut, a polynesian restaurant in Provo. These are the initial images all created in Adobe Illustrator. I'd like to thank my son Kevin for his help. It's always fun to work with him and his brother Joshua. The art director on this project wants to tweak them a bit. I will be posting the final art soon.

Kitchen

Here is a fun illustration I created for a web site. Unfortunately the person I created it for decided to can the web site because of the economy. I do still get paid though.

Witch Sketch

Another Haloween Sketch.

Halloween 2008

I am really getting into the Halloween spirit this year. Here is the first of a few. This is a colorized drawing from my sketchbook.

Payson Recreation

I was asked to come up with a logo for the recreation program of Payson where I live. They didn't know what they wanted, so I had free reign. I came up with this one, which I believe is as good as any I've seen and better than most.

After seeing the logo, they still don't know what they want, but they know what they don't want. Such is the life of an artist.

Sketch 2

Here is another sketch from my trip. I cleaned it up a bit in Photoshop and changed the color.

Knight

I got a new sketchbook and took a 2 week vacation where I did alot of drawing. I will be posting some of my sketches over the next few days. Here is the first one,

BLOCKS

As a illustator, I never know what coming at me next. Here is an example. It's for an article showing how to use Neways Products to build a Healthy Home.

Asia

I rarly create art with a paint brush and real paint. There is something grounding to physically mix paint and put brush to gessoed board. This comission was a real interaction with the client. She described all the objects she wanted in the painting and came up with the inital coloring. I found it quite satisfying to create this symbolic painting representing Asia.

Scottish Festival 2008

The Scottish Festival held in Payson, Utah is this weekend. I was asked to create a new logo. It was to relfect, not only Pipers, but Dancers and Athletes. There will be plenty of all to go around as well as Food, Fabrics, Weapons, Games, Booths, and Fun.

Safety Idea 2

This will let you know where my brain is at. Here is 2 more t-shirt ideas using the same illustration. I had this idea that even a Mad Scientist puts on his rubber gloves and safety goggles before he has Igore switch on the electricity.

Safety T's

At Neways, where I work, we were givin the task of creating t-shirt art promoting Safety. Here is my first idea.

Mt. Rushmore

What can I say. Here is another one.

Eiffel Tower

Another in the series. I dare say that this might be ny daughter Kathy's favorite.

Washington Monument

This was a tough one to make interesting. I had to rely on the clouds.

Statue of Liberty

This is the second in a series of landmark illustrations created for the Neways National Treasure summer party.

All Seeing Eye

To go along with the National Treasure theme, I have created art for banners from the elements in the poster below.
This first one is the eye that resides on top of the pirymid on every American dollar bill.

National Treasure - Summer Party

Evey summer Neways, the company I work for has a company party. The theme this year is "National Treasure". So, as you can see, I played upon the theme for this poster.

Calendar Scribbles

It has been some time since I have posted anything. All the art I've been doing latley is for something that can't really be let out of the bag yet.
So I was sitting in church without my sketch book and was drawing on my calendar while listening to how I was going to hell if I didn't do my geneology. I decided to take some of the better March, April, and May doodles and put them together.

Future Classic

A Classic Futuristic car done just for fun.

Runners T-shirts

Another t-shirt illustration for another fun run.

Provo Freedom Festival

Every year in Provo, Utah we have a huge 4th of July celebration. This year I have the opportunity to create the logo for the fun run. My logo will be on the chests of about 3000 runners.

25 Years

I love doing celtic designs. This one is for the Payson Scottish Festival. This year is their 25th year of bringing Scottish Pipe Bands, Dancing, Entertainment, Food, Gifts, Clans, Games and all things Scottish to the small town of Payson, Utah.

Horned Man

I had to delete this post and put it up again as I was getting spam comments that had nothing to do with my art.

Here is a sketch with a bit of Photoshop work on it.
I'll be posting some finished work soon.

Recolor

One of the really amazing features of Adobe Illustrator CS3 is recoloring. By using the existing colors I can play with new color pallets. Here is a couple of recolor images along with the original sketch.

Dragon Art

I got Illustrator CS3 for Christmas and wanted to try it out. It was a huge upgrade from Illustrator 10. I found an old sketch that I'd done years ago and used it for this art.

Happy New Year

2008 is the year of the Rat. Now isn't that something to be happy about? This graphis was created for a 2008 appointment book.