Quaithe

April 21, 2018

Today I started Quaithe from Game of Thrones and painted her in oil at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery.

I’m liking the white background. Hmmmmm.

I intended to have all the gold be gold leaf, but I changed my mind because I want to do shadows on each link.

Love this!

Thank you to Pamee for teaching me about warm and cool maroons today!

Her necklace has one more deeliebob dangling down in the center, but i might leave it off and just balance the picture by continuing links on the left.

Misty

April 19, 2018

Thank you, Minta for helping me with holographic powder!

Thanks to Chrissie for encouraging me to make a dreamy painting and not a photo.

Thank you to Jo for giving me energy to reach for my dreams!

Thanks to Robyn for the opportunity to hang horse paintings at ELS.

Painted the sides.

Here is my vending table set up for Con of Thrones so far:

There will be drapery and gold ribbon and red leaves. 10 more paintings in one month!

Sansa the Horse

April 8, 2018

This is my friend’s horse, Sansa. I made this for her for making a sign for me. I owe Chrissie and Aaron a pic too. Hope she likes it. I don’t have much art, so I need to do this again or make prints for the gallery and Con of Thrones.

I mighy fix the tips of her ears. Her eye is good because Pamee helped me at the gallery yesterday to see some general things about eyes: glow is a half moon on the bottom and the white dot is tiny and important to express wetness. It will be right beside medium colors.

Done! Police Dogs

April 6, 2018

I now will get it framed with a plaque that says, “There is no real ending, it’s just the place where you stop the story.”

Painting Shae

March 30, 2018

Does it look like her? She was fun to try. I think I pushed myself to another level.

THE MAKING OF PAINTING THE BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS

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Apr 21, 2018

Quaithe

Apr 21, 2018

Apr 19, 2018

Misty

Apr 19, 2018

Apr 8, 2018

Sansa the Horse

Apr 8, 2018

Apr 6, 2018

Done! Police Dogs

Apr 6, 2018

Mar 30, 2018

Painting Shae

Mar 30, 2018

Mar 29, 2018

Framed Piano

Mar 29, 2018

Mar 27, 2018

Raven Done

Mar 27, 2018

Mar 26, 2018

Raven Day 1

Mar 26, 2018

Mar 23, 2018

Done! Shae!

Mar 23, 2018

“I’m funny now. I’m Shae The Funny Whore.”

Mar 23, 2018

FOR SALE

Featured

Door In Ground

500.00

Rose

40.00

Trumpet

100.00

Inside MK2 Arcade PCB's and Wires

200.00

LOOM Bobbin Threadbare

500.00

Mushihimesama Futari

100.00

Moai Totem Pole

250.00

Dodonpachi Jet in Sci-Fi Space Sky

350.00

Weeping Willow King's Quest V

500.00

Fire Dragon

300.00

Police Dog

A commissioned oil painting for a Policeman in Oregon. An honor to paint!

Battle of the Bastards

Large oil painting with mega detail. Not a projection. Not a google image search. Actually original.

Battle of the Bastards

LOOM Bobbin Threadbare

This is an original oil painting of Bobbin Threadbare from the Amiga graphic adventure game from 1990, LOOM.

Weeping Willow Lady

The is an original oil painting that was inspired by King's Quest V's Princess Alicia -the Weeping Willow. This is an example of Anthropomorphism: assigning human qualities to non-human entities. She is a tree-woman -stuck with only her lute to make music. Her tears created a pool. She is stoic.

My Home at Mason Lake

The house in front is the home I grew up in. I like this one a lot because it's real to me. It is crayon and water color mostly. In this picture you can find a shoe-boat that held our shoes on the deck, a tent, a bicycle, and a bbq.

My Room

This is my room. You might be able to notice that I shared a room with my sister. This is done with crayons. I'm glad to have drawn this, because the house is gone now. I highly recommend to all people to draw your normal life. What is real says more because it tells a story.

Dad's shop

My first attempt at water color after studying charcoal in college. There is a trumpet in there! My dad repairs instruments in his shop because he teaches music and is awesome.

Cords under my desk

This is a picture that I drew for the assignment, Negative Space. I love this drawing because it expressed my hatred for lots of cords tangled and in the way. Now I am a choir teacher that has to deal with coiled cords all of the time -doh!

Kelp Bed in Rainbow

I took this picture and then colored it with colored pencils while looking at my laptop screen. This is the first drawing where I realized that colored pencil is erasable!

Dodonpachi

Using my husbands, model from Dodonpachi, I painted this. This is my first ever oil painting of something not abstract. The painting that started it all!

Trumpet for Keith

As a Thank you for cooking salmon for my wedding, I drew a trumpet in charcoal for Keith. Funny thing is his business is the same building that Warren Bootie used for his art and drew me in charcoal when I was 3 and influenced my life greatly growing up with that experience and artwork in our home.

For my sister

Drew this for my sister's birthday using acrylic and glitter glue and metallic powder. It's the pattern on a bag she gave me. Haha I can remember her saying, "No idea." When I asked her if she knew what it was from.

Piano in Hansee Hall

This was my final project for Art 101 at the UW. It's hanging in Downtown Snohomish for three months at the Civic Center.

Trumpet for Keith in progress

I drew this in charcoal two days before I was married. It's inspired by the Allen Vizzutti book, but I drew from looking at the real thing. That's why the mouthpiece looks crooked.

For my Grandma Yantis

I painting this for my Grandma Ruth Yantis' 80th birthday. She has this type of dog and the color combo was inspired by the Barbie House we played with upstairs in her place on Queen Anne.

Black Light room

At the Kitsap Haunted Fairgrounds, I got to paint for their blacklight room. This is a laptop cover that comes in black and white that I made colorful.

First thing I ever painted

This is the first thing I ever painted. It was fun. Lady Lovely Locks and Eleroo inspired for sure.

Blacklight room

"What's with all the naked people?" a little girl asked at the haunt. I draw naked people?

For Grandma Preedy

I drew this for my Grandma Preedy and wrote, "Merry Christmas" because she meant a lot to me -especially during that holiday.

For my Mom

This is a dead bug I found and painted. Hence the broken off legs.

Lincoln and Daphne

I painted this for my Mom J, my mother-in-law for Christmas. These are her two dogs, Lincoln the German Shepherd and Daphne, a mix with Australian Cattle Dog. Mom J likes the color blue and roses. She got teary when she got the painting which made me feel like I did something special for her. It's hanging in their TV room:)! It's an original acrylic painting. I looked at a picture of the dogs to do it. For the roses, I printed out a rose and then cut up the rose and then traced the shapes and used different blues. I left a tiny white spot on the side on purpose because I thought it added character. I signed it in black on the bottom right, "Hilma Josal". Idk if there's a date -can't see it in this picture! I couldn't find the light switch at Thanksgiving and used a flash on my camera in the dark.

SNES Gradius III Fire Dragon Boss

An original work inspired by a game (that I've only seen videos of). This is done with colored pencil. I thought of the pose after seeing the Fire Dragon Boss circle the fighting jet completely.

1951 Gottlieb Mermaid pinball Hilma Boat

This is an oil painting I created for NWPA 2017 Convention. The original art work for the pinball game is a blonde mermaid on top of the words, "Mermaid", but I have wanted to draw a mermaid from this angle for a long time so went for it. The Hilma Boat under her armpit is from my 1st birthday where my Great Grandma Yetta from Sweden visited me. My dad found the boat in the dump and fixed it and painted it with house address letters as my name on the stern. I love rowing! Now that boat is a planter in front of my parents' house decomposing, so it was fun to bring it back to life. The mermaid is three people fused together: mostly my eyes and body and a stock image from google for the nose and mouth. This drawing is before I had my first oil lesson and learned that oil painting uses oil to move the paint around and erase and layer. I haven't signed it, but the boat says my name. I actually haven't finished it and the top is "impressionistic" still haha.

Pinbot Couch

I had my husband pose on the couch the same way as Bride of Pinbot. Then, I Mod Podge'd the couch using torn up pictures of the Pinbot pinball machine using them as grayscale.

Arcade Machines Game Cabs

This is a two point perspective drawing exercise that I created for a lesson and with the NWPAS in mind. That is three Japanese game cabs, two monitors on the floor, Mortal Kombat and two San Fransico Rush machines.

Inside MK2 Arcade Machine PCB's and Wires

An oil painting of the inside of an arcade machine, specificially Mortal Kombat 2.

Kid's Arcade NWPAS 2017

For three days I oil painted this en plein air. Two people wanted it and I actually have to paint it again.

King Snake for Vicky

I was just having fun and drew a picture for a young person I met at the convention. She asked and I delivered! This is in colored pencil and I just looked at a pic on my phone.

Ryan working on/in an arcade

Blast City arcade machine. Colored pencil. I made stickers of this for the convention.

Josie's Backside

This is a colored pencil commissioned drawing that is 5'4''. I looked at many pictures to create her. She is supposed to be the backside of Boris Valejo's Josie. My drawing gets to live in a wine cellar on the backside of a door to surprise guests. I'm going to change her to a darker brown next week, so she'll look different shortly.

Raven and Rose from Grimm

My amazing friend, Minta, wanted a large prop from the TV show, Grimm. We took a grand organized trip to Oregon with the Kitsap Haunted Fairgrounds. They spent thousands on props from the Estate Sale. It was pretty fun getting attention from the line as we loaded huge pillars, morgue doors and a truck load of just walls. However, this Raven and Rose prop sign had already been sold and Minta was heartbroken. So, for her birthday, I painted it for her! Happy 33, Minta! It's an oil painting with a lot of glitter involved. I must confess that Dad J snuck us in the back so we didn't have to wait in the really long line and possibly not even get in. Thanks Dad J!

Tiffany's Piano

Rainbow Trumpet

This is my bflat Stomvi trumpet that I play and took on five world tours with the Husky Marching Band and UW Wind Ensemble. Can you tell I was listening to the Cranberries, Asia and the Beatles when working on it?