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 […]
Category: Friends
Brothers (Robles)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Dec 2019 acrylic 12×16 We invited our neighbors, the Robles family, to the Church Christmas party on Dec. 6, 2019. We had fun watching their 17-year-old son, Lewis (“Bobby”), interacting with his brother. The 5-year-old, Danté, spent most of his time on Lewis’s lap or playing games with his brother. […]
Loving Sisters (Schnell)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Dec 2019 I offered my friend, Ken Schnell, a painting of his two cute daughters, Sophie, 8, and Amelia, 9 years old. I drove over to his house and did a photo shoot. This sweet photo of the two Schnell girls hugging each other in their back yard, […]
The Loving Imp (Delimont)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 8×10 Acrylic Dec 2019 I taught Church Primary class in 2017 and had a little boy named Jarom in the class. He was smart as a whip but, phew! What energy! He would run around the classroom hitting the other little boys and standing on the folding chairs. He didn’t […]
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 […]
Hazel with an Attitude (Shoop)
by Godfrey Ellis – Nov 2019 acrylic 12×16 This sassy imp is the granddaughter of my friend, Ray. He wanted this painted as a gift for his daughter, Hazel’s mother. I love how Hazel conquers a forest scene with her fun-loving and precocious pose. Ray “paid” for this painting by doing some handiwork for us. […]
Home Builder (Brunson)
by Godfrey Ellis – 11×14 Acrylic Nov 2019 This amazing and inspiring man, our good friend Steve, has done incredible things for us. Well, he does incredible things for dozens of people. He is a model of love and service. What a giant! He was the inspiration for us to move out of our previous […]
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 […]
Reflecting (Redle)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 8×10 Acrylic Oct 2019 The painting captures our friend, 80-year old Jim Redle, reflecting on a discussion that was going on. I took the photo without him even realizing I had taken of him. We gave the painting to his wife, Joan, on her birthday. It wasn’t my best work, […]