Hancock Family Painting

I did this landscape painting at the request of my parents for their new "Italian/Sunflower" themed dining room. My parents are working in the vineyard, and each child is represented by a sunflower.

Hancock Family Painting

Andersen Project

This was a commission I did for my aunt. She wanted a painting of her children as the characters from Peter Pan; a movie they all love!

First Encounter

Andra's Senior Project: "The Girl Without Hands"

There once was a poor man and woman who had a beautiful and pious daughter. The Devil came along one day and promised them riches if they would give him what stood behind the mill. The Father assumed it was their apple tree and quickly agreed. When the Father told the Mother, she was heart-broken for she knew he meant their daughter.

When the Devil comes to claim the girl, she is too clean and pure to be touched. The Devil tells the Father to keep her from water so that she may not clean herself, but she cries so much on her hands that they are clean and the Devil still cannot have her. The Devil tells the Father to cut her hands off, and being scared for his life, the Father does so. The girl cries so much onto her stubs, however, that she is still clean and the Devil cannot take her. She, being traumatized by the event, leaves her parents and wanders through the forest alone.

The girl travelled far and became very hungry. She came to a mote which surrouned a royal garden, but she could not cross it. She prayed for help and an angel came and blocked the mote so that she could cross over. The King saw the girl in his garden and had compassion on her.

The King had pitty on the girl, and he loved her dearly. He married her and had silver hands made for her and they were happy.

The King went off to war, and during his absence, the queen had their baby. When the King's mother wrote him of this news, the Devil intersepted the letter and wrote that the Queen had had a monster. The King was worried, and wrote back that his mother was to take care of the child until his return. The letter was intersepted again by the Devil, and he wrote that the King's mother should kill the Queen and the child. The Queen couldn't shed innocent blood, so she banished the Queen from the castle. The Queen and her child found refuge in a cabin in the woods.

After searching for many years, the King finally comes across the same cabin in which his wife and child reside. Because of the queen's purity, her hands grow back, and after seeing the silver hands still in her posession, the King knows that it is his wife and child, and they live happily ever after.

Rapunzel

A project I did in my BFA class with Greg Newbold.

The Devil

Character inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairytale, "The Girl Without Hands."

Hiding in the trees

Girl in Yellow Dress

This was an in-class study. Oil on board.

The Girl with no Hands

This is an illustration of a Brothers Grimm fairytale called, "The Girl with no Hands." She has her arms tied behind her back and is left in the wilderness. She comes across a royal garden that is surrounded by a moat. She prays, and an angel comes and blocks off the moat so she can cross over to the garden and eat. This is showing the angel helping her reach the fruit on the trees.

Girl in Red Vest

This is another headpainting I did in oil. (2.5 hrs)

Girl in Green

This is my latest head-painting from Don Seegmiller's class. I love how her eyes turned out!

Rapunzel's Sorceress

This is a painting I did of the Sorceress in the story of Rapunzel. After discovering that Rapunzel had frequent visits from a prince, she cut off her hair, cast her into the wilderness and then tricked the prince into climbing the tower one last time. She told him that Rapunzel was dead, and he was so distraught, that he threw himself from the tower and landed in bushes of thorns. This gouged his eyes so that he was blind, and he wondered aimlessly through the wilderness until he finally found Rapunzel again.

5-6 Hour Headpainting

This is one of the longer studies that we did in my Headpainting class. It's fun to be able to spend more time on detail and development!

Some of my influences...

WATERHOUSE DE GAS CHRISTIANSEN

These are a few pieces from some of my favorite artists. They are the inspiration for me as I do my own work. I absolutely love the sense of shape, motion, line, light and contrast that each artist has developed within their work

Light and Truth

This was a piece I did for class interpretting "light" and "truth" and how it can lead us out of the darkness and take away our fears. I love how the drapery worked, especially since I did it completely from my head! (a risky move)

2-3 hour head-painting. Limited Pallet

Lunch Break

This was an assignment to illustrate the theme of "work." What better way to show this than a hard working waitress finally taking her lunch break, obviously tired from her shift.

Outside of Old Smith Brothers Market, PG

This was an assignment to paint a cityscape with a figure in it. I took my little sister to Main Street in Pleasant Grove where its charming old-fashioned feel was exactly what I was looking for.