BFA OPENING RECEPTION TODAY

Food!  Friends!  Fart!  

I mean art!

You're invited!!

Free attendance, free food, free parking.

Part of the requirement to graduate as a Fine Art Student is a Bachelor of Fine Art Student Show.

This is where the student hosts a gallery show at which they display their Capstone Project.  

My project, as most of you know, was the illustrating of the children's book I wrote, 

"You Should, You Should!" 

And today I get to show it off.  :)

It's here TODAY at the UVU Library:

I won't be showing alone!  I've joined up with talented illustrators:

James Allen, 

Nate Call, 

and Rani Bean.  

So you'll have your fair share of really great art to look at!  See you there!

Caricature Artist For A Day!

A few years ago I emailed the Ogden City Fair and asked if they needed a "Caricature Artist."  They wrote back and said yes, they want me.  You'd think I'd jump for joy, but instead I shook in my shoes.  I wrote back saying I wouldn't be able to attend after all.

Letting Go

But I won't say, 'You should, you should!' 

I'll let you choose it if you would.

'Cause very most importantly,

I am choosing to be me."

Hippo learned it's okay to be himself, and he learned to let go of worrying what others thought, and chose authenticity and presented his own reality.  He learned to let go of trying to control his friend - to let go of trying to make them like him by always doing what they wanted him to do.  He let go and stopped trying to protect their feelings by saying things he didn't mean, in case of offending them.  He let go, and learned honesty and vulnerability instead, stating his discomfort and asserting his real feelings.  He let go of fear and took the risk that his friends may be disappointed, or laugh at who he really is.  He let go and gave his friends the ability to choose to like him for HIM.  Hippo learned the art of letting go.

Another useful handout from a very good psychologist:

Letting Go...

To let go doesn't mean to stop caring.

It means that I can't do it for someone else.

The Cover Jacket!!!

David at Familius just sent me a low resolution image of his first draft today!  I thought you'd like to see what it's like so far....

<<<<<<<EXCITED!!!!>>>>>>

The green sides will fold into the book.  Cool or what??  It's coming together!

Goes to the printer tomorrooooooooooooow!

Back of Book Cover Jacket

I thought I was finished, but David (book designer at Familius) and I skyped yesterday and discussed the book cover jacket.  We decided it would be nice to have an additional illustration for the back side.  But the deadline to send the book to the printers is SOON (Tuesday) so I got right to work!

First the drawing:

My trusty fb friends helped me figure out he looks like he's laying ON TOP of the water instead of IN it.

One friend even posted this photo to help:  

(thanks James!)

So I shrunk his belly down...

But it still wasn't enough.  Nope.

 Finally a success!!

I also took out the dark lines between him and the water and that helped a ton!  Now, he is in the water.  :)

Behold, the back side of the book cover!

Once my book designer David at Familius approves, he'll put it all together, and the book will be sent to the printers next week!!!

Woot!

Orem Fire Station Mural

Some have asked to see my mural at the Orem Utah Fire Station 3 (it's "my" mural because my design was unanimously chosen by the fire department crew from several design submissions, but over 40 students actually helped paint it).

See Mural at my old blog:  Here

photos on my old blog

For more information you can read UVU's press release about the mural project by clicking:

Here

UVU Press Release... and a pic of me!