Onion Creek Hill

I completed my third oil pastel landscape earlier in the week but haven't had the opportunity to post it until today. The image is from my 2007 Spring Break when Jeff Brown and I skylarked around the general Moab area and parks, with this image taken from the Onion Creek area.

The image of this landscape should seem rather familiar since I used it somewhat recently to create one of the first Project-a-Sketch paintings. Although that painting did turn out nicely, I felt that its monochromatic nature didn't quite capture the greatness and contrast of the original photo.

Hay Bales in Field

I completed a second oil pastel landscape earlier in the week but my internet has been down and I haven't been able to post it until today. I plan on producing a total of four of these oil pastel landscapes before I resume my work on the oil paintings.

This image was based on a photo I took back in October 2008 of some hay bales in a field adjacent to the Blount Cultural Park grounds.

Wrecking Ball in Lake Bed

Decided to head off in yet another art direction today. I just couldn't shake the feeling that I had a better use for my canvases and images than the Projector Paintings, so I might hold off on those for a while. Aside from needing some more immediate result-style art works than oil painting provides, all the oil paint I had prepared for the paintings I was working on has dried out, so that is why I am taking a break from working on them.

For this new direction I intend on doing a few oil pastel landscapes to get me back in the art groove enough to begin working on the oil paintings again. For today's landscape I chose a photo of a wrecking ball embedded the lake bed of the Great Salt Lake near where the Spiral Jetty resides.