Utah Art Favorites

If you are in UTAH right now, I highly suggest you go down to the BYU art gallery, north of the HFAC, all the way to the basement to see this exhibit:

Loved this painting:  on route 89 Springville, UT framing shop/gallery on west side of road before you get to library.

 

He does great angels, religious themes...

And there is something about seeing them in person, the textures, the SIZE

This Brian Kershisnik painting was in window, made me stop to see more inside:

Mural at 7th East exit off of I-80 SLC on side of Running World:

And my favorite piece from SMA Walter Rane exhibit:

 

School Mural

"Before" pictures are important, to give you an idea of the dramatic change a mural can make...

Kind of cute, not very scary.

It was an early dismissal day for elementary students, so I didn't have the traffic flow through the lobby.  Except for curious teachers coming to admire my progress and comment.  I had a grimmace smile going, trying to not mind the interruptions and be pleasant.  Sometimes I hear someone has said something to me but it doesn't register or connect with my mouth to be social back in time.  Painting changes time, changes how I listen to people.  Hard to start talking when working intensely.  I started at 1:30, left the school at 6:30 pm, after applying 2 coats of sealer.  (Read my Ender's lost years book and ate cheesecake while I waited for coats to dry.) 

Most time consuming was prepping the wall that had been destroyed by duct tape. Not a plesant thing to discover sticky residue, paint pulled from wall in spots, down to wallboard cardboard unprimed yucky.

My favorite part:  on the far left are front paw prints, BIG, bigger than my hands-silly.  THAT would be a squirrel to fear!

In Progress Update

Monochromatic Turtle Nursery

Hawaiin Green Sea Turtle, filling in slowly...baby turtles hatching and headed to sea on the far left.

Plumeria/frangapini tree almost done.

I am not showing you the unfinished banana tree and the sad palm tree that I need to concentrate on tomorrow.  Sometimes it is important to just know when to stop.

One of my favorite things to do after painting for 5 hours is to stop at a thrift store on the way home.  I feel crazy in my painting clothes, and watch to see how people react to me.  The paint is dry (on my clothes) but it looks really messy.  Found 3 pairs of long shorts for Sam and a Coleman lantern for Pioneer Trek, so worth the stop!.

Zombie Fish Tamed

Again, for the party:

BEFORE:

Metallic and acrylic paints.