by Godfrey J. Ellis – 14×18 Acrylic Feb 2024 My brother is a lifelong lover of antique cars, so I painted this one of a Model A Ford for him. I’m sure he will see things that are not correct. LOL… I was discouraged earlier, but I think it has turned out well. Hope you […]
Category: Landscapes
Liberty Jail (Wright)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 Acrylic Jan 2024 This couple are serving as guides in the “Liberty Jail” museum in Independence, Kansas. He is also one of the authors and reviewers for the Interpreter journal for which I am serving as Associate Editor. He had found this art website and asked if I could […]
Takaroa (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 Acrylic April 2022 This is a painting of my missionary grandson in French Polynesia on a tropical island in the South Pacific. (Rough assignment, I know, but someone has to do it!!! LOL.) He is loving his mission and we are very proud of him. We loved this photo […]
Waving to China (Weiyin)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Acrylic 20×24 May 2021 This lovely man and his 12-year-old son, Liu are wode peng you (my friends – see the characters on the lower right). The father was my Chinese teacher at Pierce College in 2004. The College brought him over from China (his wife had to stay behind […]
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 […]
Mont Saint-Michel
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 16×20 Acrylic 1994 This painting was based on a photo in the Geo magazine [a kind of National Geographic in French]. Godfrey started the picture while we were still floating on the canals of Alsace-Lorraine in the east of France in the summer of 1994. The Geo photo was dramatic […]
The Winding Mountain Path
by Godfrey J. Ellis – acrylic 1994 In early 1993, Merry and I pulled out my old missionary journal from 1972 to 1973 and read it. We caught fire and felt inspired to get back to France somehow. We called Joel Fournier, the stake president in Paris, and asked if he knew of a Church […]
Floating on the Marne-au-Reine
by Godfrey J. Ellis – acrylic 1994 One of the amazing activities that we did with the LeChevallier family was a 4-mile-per-hour cruise along the canals of Alsace-Lorraine in Eastern France. It was magical. This scene was painted on-site at one of the many stops along the canal. We left the painting in France – […]
Herding Horses
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 15×30 acrylic 1990 A National Geographic Magazine in 1990 contained this 1-inch by 4-inch photo. Merry and I fell in love with it, but it was tiny, tiny. How could we have a frameable copy? Enlarging it just blurred and pixelated it. I decided that the only way we could […]
The Wandering Dogwood
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 1992 This painting was a wedding gift for my sister, Wendy and her new husband, David Black. It was a total experiment. The “mat” is part of the painting, not a real mat. That allowed the painting of several leaves to extend beyond the painting into the mat area. It […]