New Painting

This is one of a bunch of paintings for National Geographic. I really love drawing and painting this subject. I like how this one turned out. I need to do more work like this, maybe my prehistoric ancestry is trying to tell me something...

New Christmas book

"I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day"

My newest book is done and on the shelves of bookstores, I had a great time doing the illustrations for this one, the models for the project are neighbors and friends and really helped the book come to life. The book was published by Deseret Book. Be sure and order plenty of copies for your Christmas presents this year... check it out here.

PIRATES again...

Pirates was recently selected to be on the 2010-2011 Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List, try saying that ten times fast. It is a great honor for my book, well, our book to be on this list. I worked on this book for a long time and I'm glad the effort is paying off and it is getting some attention from kids, after all isn't that the idea.

Funny story

This image is for a funny story where a kid said that a quail flew up his leg and out his neck... what a story, it was fun to paint.

New Images

Here are a couple of new images I just finished, I like them both even though they are very different subjects. I hope to do more biblical images in the future, they are always interesting narratives and it is challenging to try to come up with something nobody has thought of.

Easter Book

I recently finished a book for the upcoming easter season for Deseret Book. Here is a sample of one of the illustrations. Some of the scenes were biblical scenes and were a challenge to put together, this one is part of the story talking about families being together after death.

I really enjoyed this book it gave me a chance to paint some things that are important to me and my faith and challenged me as an artist.

Alaska Bowhunting supply poster

The Owner of Alaska bowhunting supply called me today and let me know the posters are out and selling well. Here is a preview for you and if you want to buy one here is a link to their site.

What a fun project and we are already talking about the next one.