Space and Time
24x36
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Friday, November 5, 2010
Frozen Owl
Origin:http://nafah.deviantart.com/art/Owl-184862615?q=sort%3Atime+gallery%3Anafah&qo=0
I saw this wonderful Illustration and just wanted to say, hehe! Turned the little owl into an Ice-cube
Monday, November 1, 2010
Visually Stunned
Last night I've came across a saying from an artist I never knew. Samuel Mockbee, what struck me was what he said
"The Professional challenge is how to avoid becoming so stunned by the power of modern technology and economic affluence that I lose focus on the fact that people and place matter."
His statement struck me in a few ways, one I feel visually stunned, and another I my eye hurt after using the computer for too long.
One more reason is that I was hoping to use the monitor to paint from, one the colors would be better that a printed photo, but for me it has an odd way of feeling lifeless. Many talented digital artist don't seem to be effected by this, for me the feel of brush in hand, the feel of canvas is tangible.
Continuing on, I paint better from life that from any printed or digital image. This isn't new, my teachers have always said painting from life is better. It has just taken this stubborn guy to realize what they mean.
Also I apply their saying to becoming visually stunned.
As a future teacher I want to open the mind to a world that is being visually stunned. Anyone who watches a Fast action movie will tell you it was fast, it was full of action and it was visually entertaining. Watch more and more, keep on watching, soon you'll find things aren't so fast, it;s a remake, or a copy-cat, it's been done before.
At this point you've become overly stimulated, visually stunned. The saying to much of one thing can be bad. I love T.V. series, Bones, Castle, but these aren't enough I carve more. I go to Hulu to watch other series and still I wanted more, I am unfilled. So I surf the web for fun things to read and enjoy! Give me more, more I say.
STOP!!! Bah, gah, ugh! Gee whiz what am I doing, take a step back. This is my problem I've become a slave to a tool, and a device. Man this is horrible, what to do, what to do, do I stop it all together or do I cut myself off partly, self regulate myself, control the amount I watch. This isn't the first time I thought of doing this, but this is the first time I've thought it is killing my ability and drive to create art work. It is so much easier to watch a show that it is to pick up a brush and start painting.
Now is that fact that I'm become overly stimulated the reason I don't want to paint from the monitor. Is my mind sick of looking at the monitor that I can't paint form it.
So what do I need to do, how much of entertaining one self too much? This will be hard, but I what to see what the result is. A masterpiece? Haha!
Shaun Williams response:
?
I read your comments
This melds with my feelings of the computer being an 'all in one' device. I recently had a friend ask me about online dating. he asked me if I thought it was evil or not. I came to the conclusion that it challenges the pattern God has for his children to relate to each other in person. Computers are invisible airplanes, invisible cars...they take us places quickly. But who after the travel doesn't want to get out of the car or plane and "BE" where they have been taken. Computers fall short in this way
in the end they become a false experience. Even the pages of a book can be much more valuable than the computer screen
This is why there was such a push in the ipad. A "Smaller" less intrusive device into life, yet serving it's purpose as a tool and entertainment device. Mobility is a huge thing to be valued.
Mark, I may have you consider what benefits a separate device to "watch" would be to you. If you could surf and paint from you television when you were younger...would you have actually watched anything on it? or would you have used it for different purposes?
I'm of the feeling that visual media for entertainment needs to be separate from teh computer. That is why I have a T.V. next to my computer. I can effectively turn off the computer and still have my visual entertainment that is without distractions. Also, I can turn off my T.V. and eliminate a portion of my visual input.
to me it is all about input and what is vying for that attention from me. Too much is Too much...just like you said
you could almost say....have a computer for entertainment, and then one for work right. Two identical computers. Which one would you spend time on the most?
And that is the computer you need to put in the closet for a while.
:D
now, since you have only one computer with "Multiple personalities" how do you separate them?
You might make two users on the computer and use them as you intend them
one for work. one for entertainment
switch users when you need to go to the other stuff
This may not work at all. I'm not sure
But in any case. there is a lot to be said about the light, the space, and the atmosphere.
fresh air, company, and feeling a part of something bigger. and not by being part of the internet
We are pioneers to a new tool and a new society that it has created. We must survive it's influence and we must mould it's influence upon us, direct it's power for our good. I know myself that it can enslave us. All things have within them potential in our hands to serve a greater purpose. with discipline and with purpose ourselves, we can remain their masters
you feel that you are the master of your canvas and brush right?
they serve you well. and they satisfy you.
prospered or poisoned? how do you feel about your computer?
another possibility is moving to a laptop. Giving you mobility. This however might become another problem if you see computers as a poison because the computer will then be able to go everywhere you do
another thing about computers is that it is impossible to keep up with how fast they move, with how much the contain, with how much they demand.....demand if we are desirous to keep up.
Find what is valuable....that you believe the Lord is pleased with that a computer can do for you. After all, He has blessed you with one right?
He expects that we use it correctly and for our benefit. Getting rid of it may work. Ask Him first though.
Vast generations lived without computers. What has it given mankind?
information.relationships in some cases connections. As a tool we have the power of Photoshop
"The Professional challenge is how to avoid becoming so stunned by the power of modern technology and economic affluence that I lose focus on the fact that people and place matter."
His statement struck me in a few ways, one I feel visually stunned, and another I my eye hurt after using the computer for too long.
One more reason is that I was hoping to use the monitor to paint from, one the colors would be better that a printed photo, but for me it has an odd way of feeling lifeless. Many talented digital artist don't seem to be effected by this, for me the feel of brush in hand, the feel of canvas is tangible.
Continuing on, I paint better from life that from any printed or digital image. This isn't new, my teachers have always said painting from life is better. It has just taken this stubborn guy to realize what they mean.
Also I apply their saying to becoming visually stunned.
As a future teacher I want to open the mind to a world that is being visually stunned. Anyone who watches a Fast action movie will tell you it was fast, it was full of action and it was visually entertaining. Watch more and more, keep on watching, soon you'll find things aren't so fast, it;s a remake, or a copy-cat, it's been done before.
At this point you've become overly stimulated, visually stunned. The saying to much of one thing can be bad. I love T.V. series, Bones, Castle, but these aren't enough I carve more. I go to Hulu to watch other series and still I wanted more, I am unfilled. So I surf the web for fun things to read and enjoy! Give me more, more I say.
STOP!!! Bah, gah, ugh! Gee whiz what am I doing, take a step back. This is my problem I've become a slave to a tool, and a device. Man this is horrible, what to do, what to do, do I stop it all together or do I cut myself off partly, self regulate myself, control the amount I watch. This isn't the first time I thought of doing this, but this is the first time I've thought it is killing my ability and drive to create art work. It is so much easier to watch a show that it is to pick up a brush and start painting.
Now is that fact that I'm become overly stimulated the reason I don't want to paint from the monitor. Is my mind sick of looking at the monitor that I can't paint form it.
So what do I need to do, how much of entertaining one self too much? This will be hard, but I what to see what the result is. A masterpiece? Haha!
Shaun Williams response:
?
I read your comments
This melds with my feelings of the computer being an 'all in one' device. I recently had a friend ask me about online dating. he asked me if I thought it was evil or not. I came to the conclusion that it challenges the pattern God has for his children to relate to each other in person. Computers are invisible airplanes, invisible cars...they take us places quickly. But who after the travel doesn't want to get out of the car or plane and "BE" where they have been taken. Computers fall short in this way
in the end they become a false experience. Even the pages of a book can be much more valuable than the computer screen
This is why there was such a push in the ipad. A "Smaller" less intrusive device into life, yet serving it's purpose as a tool and entertainment device. Mobility is a huge thing to be valued.
Mark, I may have you consider what benefits a separate device to "watch" would be to you. If you could surf and paint from you television when you were younger...would you have actually watched anything on it? or would you have used it for different purposes?
I'm of the feeling that visual media for entertainment needs to be separate from teh computer. That is why I have a T.V. next to my computer. I can effectively turn off the computer and still have my visual entertainment that is without distractions. Also, I can turn off my T.V. and eliminate a portion of my visual input.
to me it is all about input and what is vying for that attention from me. Too much is Too much...just like you said
you could almost say....have a computer for entertainment, and then one for work right. Two identical computers. Which one would you spend time on the most?
And that is the computer you need to put in the closet for a while.
:D
now, since you have only one computer with "Multiple personalities" how do you separate them?
You might make two users on the computer and use them as you intend them
one for work. one for entertainment
switch users when you need to go to the other stuff
This may not work at all. I'm not sure
But in any case. there is a lot to be said about the light, the space, and the atmosphere.
fresh air, company, and feeling a part of something bigger. and not by being part of the internet
We are pioneers to a new tool and a new society that it has created. We must survive it's influence and we must mould it's influence upon us, direct it's power for our good. I know myself that it can enslave us. All things have within them potential in our hands to serve a greater purpose. with discipline and with purpose ourselves, we can remain their masters
you feel that you are the master of your canvas and brush right?
they serve you well. and they satisfy you.
prospered or poisoned? how do you feel about your computer?
another possibility is moving to a laptop. Giving you mobility. This however might become another problem if you see computers as a poison because the computer will then be able to go everywhere you do
another thing about computers is that it is impossible to keep up with how fast they move, with how much the contain, with how much they demand.....demand if we are desirous to keep up.
Find what is valuable....that you believe the Lord is pleased with that a computer can do for you. After all, He has blessed you with one right?
He expects that we use it correctly and for our benefit. Getting rid of it may work. Ask Him first though.
Vast generations lived without computers. What has it given mankind?
information.relationships in some cases connections. As a tool we have the power of Photoshop
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Grand Tetons
24x36 Oil Painting of the Grand Tetons
Price: $1600
Four color palette, Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Cad Red Deep Hue, and Cad Yellow Med.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Lewis Lake
Refined
Lake Lewis, 9x12 (1 hour to 1 1/2) Painted on location
Mt. Moran 11/14 (1 hour to 1 1/2) Painted on location
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Jan Van Goyen, Dunes, Study
I painted this instead of writing an essay. The class was Baroque History. There where many, many wonderful painting to choose from. Even though this isn't one of his better ones, my goal wasn't just to reproduce a master landscape but to see how the colors in the books changes its looks. So many times we lose colour, vibrance, values, and detail when they are printed.
To close I learned a few things about reproduction and enjoyed studying Jan Van Goyen.
Size 22x12 1/4 Price $260
Monday, August 2, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Morning Side, and 10 o'clock
Painted on location, around two hours, 9"x12" 
Painted on location, 7"x 9" about an hour and half
Friday, July 30, 2010
Old Barn
Painted this heading out of Rexburg on my way to Sugar City.
11"x14" Two and a half hours. Plein Air painting. Price $155
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Plein Air Painting
This one was painted today here in old Rexburg, (9x12") About an hour and half. 
Painted this yesterday out in Sugar City area, (9x12") Around an Hour.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
The Fogotten Lunch Food Forest
Owen an eleven year old, freckle face boy embarks on a adventure to rescue his twin sister Grace and his grandma Todd, from the Three Lunch ladies. Who live in The Forgotten Lunch Food Forest! Where all discarded, unwanted foods, toys, lunch pales go!
The story is told of how everyday three joyful ladies would arrive early everyday at school to make the lunch food. The food was always delicious and the children loved coming for lunch. This all changed on one fateful day, when three different children, one had a fly in her soup, another a boy had a cockroach in his cookie and the last a little girl who screamed the loudest "Aaah mouse in my sandwich."
All the blame was put on the loving lunch ladies, though innocent of any misdeeds, for it wasn't there fault; but for a selfish and mad little girl who didn't get a cookie before lunch. "No, it'll spoil your appetite." Said one of the Lunch Ladies. No one told Emily Todd No!
From the time on the food started tasting more biter, and more taste less. Even the sack lunches where effected, sandwiches where soggy, fruits and desserts smashed.
Soon the School had no choice but to can the three lunch ladies. Before leaving it is said they left a curse on all the lunch food everywhere. "May your foods be tasteless, your fruits unripened, your sandwiches dry and soggy, and your precious cookies be stale and crumbled."
Monday, July 26, 2010
Paris by Night, and Warm Day
Painted from a Photo taken in Paris. 8x10"
Painted this one today while driving back into Rexburg. 11x14"
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
Late Summer
Ever notice that things don't turn out the way you planned. When first starting I expected this painting to be,...well different that how it turned out. And I'm happy it did. Painting gives you many surprises! In the end this was a fun experience and a enjoyable turn out!
What do yo...u think?
(I will be adding and tweaking spots before signing)
Size (24"x30" ) Price $900
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Red Sonja
Done in Adobe Illustrator, with a small touched up in Photoshop.
Started this with the mind set, that she didn't start out with all the usual.. ummh, "Armour."
A bit more of a wild animal. Using what she can just to get by until she find something better.
Parts of Armour she put together along with a chipped sword.
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