by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 acrylic 2020 I have mixed feelings about this painting. It was another of the portrait gifts for a missionary who served in our area, Sister Cloward. She was only here for only a week or two. It bothers me that it is not my best work. The pattern of […]
Category: Faith
Congo Preacher (Kayij-Wint)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 acrylic 2020 This is the Reverend Kayij, the husband of the woman in the bright dress (“Congo Pride”) and the father of my colleague, Kaj Kayij-Wint. Her father had recently passed on and this painting was commissioned by her as a memory of him and a tribute to his […]
Saintly Inspiration (Mortinson)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 acrylic 2020 This is one of my favorite portraits. It is a painting of Mark Mortensen, a very sweet, gentle man suffering with Parkinson’s. There are technical mistakes but I felt like I captured the saintly tone of this sweet man. I wanted to capture not only his likeness […]
On the Deck (McBride)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Dec 2019 acrylic 11×14 This portrait was painted as a missionary gift for Sister McBride. She was standing on the back deck of our home on Kapalea Way in Lacey. All of the sister missionaries were sweet and kind but both Merry and I had a soft sport for this […]
Bay of Bengal (Jolley)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 15×30 Acrylic Dec 2019 Our good friends, Allen and Janine Jolley, spent 18 months on a service mission in far-off India. Of the thousands of photos that they took while there, I loved this one the most (once cropped). It is a photo of them standing on the shore of […]
Pondering Bishop (Miller)
by Godfrey Ellis – Dec 2019 acrylic 11×14 I quietly took several secret photos of Bishop Miller on my iPhone during an early morning bishopric meeting one Sunday. I pretended to be looking something up on the phone. I loved this one because he looked as if he was contemplating some important issue – he […]
Inside/Outside (Dunkley)
by Godfrey Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Nov 2019 This is another of my portrait gifts – this one of Sister Dunkley, one of the missionaries assigned to our area. The reference photo was actually taken inside our house in the office, but she requested an outdoor background. She’s a pretty young lady but she didn’t […]
Hawaii in Washington (Walton)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Nov 2019 Like all of the other sister missionaries, Sister Walton was sweet and lovely. I wasn’t as pleased with this painting of her but, like all the others, it was the very best I could do at the time I did it. She was pleased with it. […]
Washington Adoptee (Perry)
by Godfrey Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Oct 2019 A resident of Boise, this young missionary (Sister Perry) loved her stay in Washington, brief though it was. Here she is wrapped in the Washington State flag. I was pleased with how the lettering came out. I significantly changed the background at her request and she loved […]
Joy of Belonging (Redle)
by Godfrey Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Nov 2019 Joan, though she goes by the surname Aronovitch is the wife of Jim Redel. After painting Jim’s portrait (see “Jim Reflects” in the Portrait Gallery), we decided to paint Joan’s portrait as a gift for her baptism. I took the reference photo below of her in a […]