THANK YOU!

I was asked about Thank You cards featuring mermaids!
Well, here they are!


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Eliza!

On Monday Eliza will be turning 6!
She likes typical girly things including pink and purple.
This is the gift Sarah will be giving her!

Connor & Casey

These are two name paintings I just finished up for Connor & Casey!

It is always nice to get a new challenge and leave the mermaid realm every
once in a while.

Information about Name Paintings

Crazi Beautiful Women Feature!

My artwork is being featured on the website Crazi Beautiful Women! Leave a comment for a chance to win a matted print of your choice!

Mermaid Portrait

I was contacted by JoAnn who wanted a unique portrait of her as a mermaid. She sent me some reference photos and using prismacolors this is what I came up with!

Our Little Peapod

This feature of my artwork has actually been up for a while,
but if you missed it check it out!

Our Little Peapod

Sandcastles, dreams, & the Beach!

Here are my three latest mermaids:

They are currently up on eBay

Zoe's Name Painting

Here is my latest name painting for Zoe who likes mermaids, fairies, princesses, pink, and purple. For more information on ordering a personalized name painting please go to my Website.

Mountain West Reef Fest Logo

Here is my design for the Mountain West Reef Fest logo for the Wasatch Marine Aquarium Society:




It will be used for a conference in Salt Lake City in November.

Chalk Art Festival June 19-20th

My family and I will again be participating in the Chalk Art Festival in June located in Salt Lake City's Gateway mall. We have an awesome plan for this year's art square. Watch for more details to come!

Beached Pink

"Beached Pink"

was a commissioned 8 x 10 painting that will be used

on posters for a Yoga conference in California (I believe that is correct.)

As far as I know this is my first full sized gray haired mermaid.

Giving Away Some Art for Emma!

A few months ago I came across a blog through a friend's blog. This blog is about Tiffany, her family, and her baby Emma who was diagnosed with anencephaly while in the womb. The blog goes though the amazing journey of this family. Warning you will need tissues! Tiffany wanted to do a series of giveaways to thank people for their support. I offered up a name painting that will be given away next Friday. You can go to the blog HERE, however I would suggest starting at the beginning HERE.

Bryan & Erin

Here is a color pencil drawing of Erin's first time seeing the beach. This was from a photo taken on Gleneden Beach, my favorite beach. This is one of the few of my works of art that I actually have hanging in my home. Size 9 x 12 Prisma Colors on Bristol paper.

Heart Frames

Last fall I was asked to create two designs for Unique Frames & Decor out of California! It was really fun to create these designs. They are only available for wholesale, so I couldn't tell you where to go to find one. Here they are:
You can see their website HERE

So I decided to paint a mermaid to hang up at the good ol' county fair. There are never enough mermaids there, really. After I had started I thought to go ahead a take photos of the process. I didn't get the beginning drawing or the final... I will have to post the final later. Anyways here is how it happens:

After drawing the mermaid I masked the bubbles so that I didn't have to mess with going around them.

I always paint the mermaid first. If I don't like the mermaid I am not going to bother with a background, they are easy. This picture was taken right as I was beginning the background.

She is holding a baby mermaid fetus.

I got to be the model. No one else was home.

Background: lots of water, paint, more water, and salt.

Mask removed: White bubbles.


I will go to the fair and take a picture. I can't believe I forgot to do that.

This year we were asked to be featured artists. I spent all Saturday morning with my darling in-laws creating this "little" Mermaid. Somehow I was talked into creating a mermaid this year...it was a stretch, let me tell ya!

I am not doing a good job keeping this blog up.  For those of you who have been wondering about how the fair turned out I got a 1st and a 3rd place ribbon.  Also I have been asked to be a featured artist at this years Utah Foster Care Foundation Chalk Art Festival! I will be drawing a mermaid with the assistance of my fun in-laws.

So I have challenged myself to leave my happy mermaid place and return to my roots in art. As a major part of this I am going to submit two of my pieces to the county fair. This really scares me a bit because I will be in the "professional" category which is intimidating to say the least. Hopefully something good comes of it. I am pleased with the results. One picture is of my little Erin after a bath done in colored pencil completed in two days. It is titled "Little Bug in a Rug." The other one is called "Beach Baby" and it is watercolor done from a photo so kindly taken and given to my by a former student. This one I stressed over weeks if not months. Wish me luck.

My students and I made a local news with an article in the South Valley Journal. We took some of our summer break to teach some elementary students how to create street paintings also known as chalk art. You may read the article with this link https://www.arcasearch.com/us/ut/?paper=jsv on page 4b.

Some people may wonder what has happened to this blog and the answer is simple: I had a baby. I thought I would update this blog by noting that I attended the Chalk Art Festival this year and with help from my lovely in-laws (who follow coloring instructions really well) we won! One of my students won in the same catagory in the student section. Very exciting! Here are pictures of our art and my cutie pie.