Artistry for The Brave

This is Zena, the white Arabian at Equine Life Solutions in Snohomish, Wa. She has earned ELS over a million dollars making her a million dollar horse.

This is an oil painting for my very special friend. This is her beautiful horse named Moose. She took this epic picture and I painted it.

This oil painting was accepted into the Cannon Beach Arts Association Adjudicated Art Show called Home and Abroad, 2019.

This oil original by Hilma Josal, Artistry for the Brave 2018 was accepted into the Arts of the Terace 40th Annual Adjudicated Art Show. It was the second and final time painting this image. Both Fresnel Lenses have sold.

This was the first time I painted the Fresnel Lens in Grays Harbor. It was displayed at the Cannon Beach Plein Air Festival 2018 and sold at Arts of Snohomish.

This was a large commissioned painting through Etsy.

This oil original on Canvas by Hilma Josal, Artistry for the Brave was also accepted into the Home and Abroad Adjudicated Art Show in Oregon with the Cannon Beach Arts Association. Matthew Josal was the talented photographer.

This plein air oil original on canvas by Hilma Josal, Artistry for the Brave 2017 was accepted into the Shelton Rotating Art Gallery in January 2018 and sold.

This is a commission for my husband's cousin, Tiffany's music classroom in a Catholic school in Minnesota. I painted from real-life looking at a piano for about two months. She wanted a blue ukulele, school colors, a music book, a rosary, piano keys, straight on shot but close in. A very tall order and I tried to make it all happen for her. I'm thinking of getting it framed with an old gold frame that matches the inside of the piano's metal harp parts.

This is a large oil painting I made for my friends Maryna and Troy. 

Here it is in their home. They are awesome for sending me a picture!

Colored pencil 

For three days, I drew this sitting at my table at the Pinball and Arcade convention. Two people wanted this painting. I have to do it again for another person soon! He said he'd pay double and was getting it for his friend who owns most of these games.

A speaker at the convention that's a professional illustrator for pinball games, John Youssi, told me that this was what I was doing. Without him, I wouldn't have known. Thanks for his kindness!

I brought my oil painting stuff with me on a camping trip. When I paint in public, people that would normally never talk to me come up and talk to me. They encourage me and give me strength to do a difficult thing in front of other people. I like painting more than taking a picture because I remember and learn more about the happy time.

I've always loved my Grandpa Preedy's house because it is nice and big and I have lots of happy memories there. It gives me a warm comfortable excited and special feeling. I hope that I can keep working on this or redo it so I can keep this special place. That color blue with the white top with the green and the camper and the barn -love it! I love the big round rocks in the driveway. I love the flower beds. There's bees and apple trees out of frame. In the window, I'd like to have Grandpa and Uncle Jeff and Aunt Ramona and Kathy doing the Preedy wave:)!!

This is an oil painting of the inside of a Mortal Kombat 2 arcade machine.

This is my version of Gottlieb's 1951 Mermaid Pinball game.

Charcoal drawing of my version of the Moai Totem boss from Gradius III. I drew their whole bodies and looked at pictures of the real Moai on Easter Island to make each head individual, unlike the actual game.

Oil painting of my version of the Weeping Willow from King's Quest V: absence makes the heart go yonder.

My husband's model (pictured below) painted in oil. This was my first oil painting to start the year getting ready to make art for NWPAS. Below is the marquee for the game. Ryan's friend painted his model and put details of distress on it. So nicely done!

My take on Loom with an actual model and many frames incorporated onto one canvas. Bobbin Threadbare has a face now!

Pencil drawing of my version of what the dragon looks like and how it swarms around the jet, totally unlike the game.

Pencil drawing of a person fixing a game cab.

A perspective oil painting of game cabs.

Bride of Pinbot pose, but with a sexy man instead. I tore up pictures of the Pinbot pinball machine and glued them in grayscale to create the couch.

This was my Plein Air oil painting I was working on at NWPAS 2017.

I painted it a second time!

Do you remember the viral video of "The Hardest Game in the World" which received over four billion views? If not, there's a screenshot of it below. This is an oil painting of my husband's friend playing this game called, Mushihimesama Futari aka Bug Princess. Glitter and metallic dust were added.

This is me looking not at cords, but between the cords and practicing negative space. I really dislike a tangle of cords, so taking the time to look at them for a day was probably therapeutic. 

Piano in Hansee with Headphones and a Metronome: For my first art class at the University of Washington, Professor Sean Walsh had us draw whatever we wanted showing negative space in charcoal. He loved my drawing and told me in a one-on-one meeting that I was the best student he ever had and that I needed to major in art, and draw every day. He put in a good word for me and got me into an overloaded second art class with Q, which taught me how to draw people. Changed my life. Thank you!

This is a charcoal drawing I created from the old side scroller SNES game: Gradius III. Normally, this enemy is a totem of identical caricature faces. I drew their unique full bodies and in varying sizes. The circles to the left are the blue and red Cheerio fireballs the boss shoots are you as it spins. Oops, maybe I should draw it spinning. Hmmm...

I drew this with charcoal for Keith, my friend that helped me with trumpet sectionals, pit band... and he cooked the salmon for our wedding. Unlike my Trumpet Teacher drawing from high school, I didn't look at a picture. I used my C trumpet as a model. I actually drew this two days before my wedding.

Here's my dad holding the drawing newly framed. He sent me this picture the day before my wedding to say, "I got it frame for you -don't worry! It's ready to give to Keith." Thanks, Dad!

This is from my very first ever Meet Up for artists. I got to meet some cool people and I felt in my element. This is a great exercise for looking and using your left brain. Our model, Gloria, has been doing this for 30 years and is the most drawn person in Washington.