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I was teaching parts of the face for portraiture this last week and here are a few little samples I made.

Art the High School Years

It is amazing to me how little of my old art I still own. In high school I gave most of it to friends as a thank you, get well, or a happy birthday. So I have only a small selection of what I actually did; the same is true for the college and university levels. When I was a student I didn't have much room, so if someone liked something I did I usually gave it to them.

My three favorite colors my whole life.

Made the red one first ,then the positive and negative in black and white. They had been one picture, the two black and white ones. Later I separated them when one got damaged. The positive was the left and the negative the right image, originally.

Teacher supplied prop, I didn't drink soda then or now. This was a value study and a still life of desk, soda can, and gum wrapper.

Just a pencil drawing.

Oil paint on canvas, the only surviving painting from high school.

Oil pastels.
Did an entire series on these in high school, about 60 different ones. These are the only two left. I also did a series on vintage clowns; don't seem to have any of those, now. I will have to look maybe I have a different portfolio somewhere, misplaced over the years.

Oriental mask, prisma color pencils.

Old Dior ad; this image is used again in the university level but for acrylic / water color studies. It is sad to me that this one got damaged in the middle of the image. This image is made using prisma color pencils.

On a Halloween note.

If I remember there was an image similar to this in one of my brother's D&D books, and it was Halloween time my junior year of high school. My art teacher was having a contest; this was my entry. I won and got a box of art pencils for it.

Value studies

I was teaching Value studies today in art. So I brought in some things I did as a teenager as both good and bad examples of a value study. It was interesting asking students at a religious school what are values (mind you, these are 4th Graders). I did preface the question with the statement that it had nothing to do with morals, but they did not understand the question. After about ten students, a person got the answer correct. Then as we discussed pencil hardnesses and such and how to draw and what was a highlight in a graphite drawing and such, I could see the children light up as they figured it out. It was a very fun day teaching. I will find out probably tomorrow if I get to be their permanent teacher, or if this was just a fun event in my life. I do hope I get to be the children's teacher; I so do love teaching them, and they are such great students. Pray for me because it will be real hard to not get this a second time. I cried for a few days the first go round; it will be harder this time after having actually taught the children.

All the drawings and lithography below are my work, mostly from when I was a teenager, that I used as examples today. These are some of the drawings and such I posted today in class; some never got completed when I was young.

Good example of a value study

Hand value studies



Face value studies, first one not as good as the second


Pencil and chalk drawing

Example of incomplete work and a good example of a bad example of values (nose disappears).

Another good example of a bad example; see the face disappears into the background, also an incomplete work.

High contrast value study

Seeing in reverse value study (there was a mirror used for 1/3 of the image)

Good example of a value study

Good example of a value study

Good example of a value study

Good example of a value study (lithograph image Title "Tree of Life," did this as an adult at BYU)

My classroom