Category: Missionaries

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 14×18 Acrylic Jan 2021 This is another souvenir portrait painted for missionaries serving in our area. This was a wonderful young man who served faithfully. The red above the eye (on the viewer’s right) is a black eye or abrasion that Elder Chandler got playing basketball with other missionaries. I […]

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 14×18 Acrylic Jan 2021 I called the painting, “The Tie” because Elder Sexton usually didn’t wear one! My own mission was 50 years ago and the thought of teaching a lesson with a suit, white shirt, and tie was unthinkable. Today, missionaries can wear dockers, blue shirts, and open collars. […]

by Godfrey J. Ellis — 12×16 Acrylic Oct. 2020 This is another in my series of gift portraits for the sister missionaries. Sister Hague was a seasoned missionary and was bold and direct with everyone she taught; yet she was also soft and a sweetheart. Below is the source photo with her young and new […]

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 14×18 Acrylic Sept 2020 This is another in my series of gift portraits for the sister missionaries. Lacey was the first area for Sister Clonts and I photographed her after she had been out for only a few days. My goal in this painting was to try to capture the […]

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 acrylic June 2020 This is another in my series of gift portraits for missionaries serving in our area. They are all so enthusiastic and sweet and it seems so little to do for them. I took the reference photo in a little photo shoot that I took of her […]

by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 acrylic 2020 This lovely young woman, Elizabeth Smith, was one of the missionaries assigned to our area. She was limited in her activities because she and her companion were isolated at home by the coronavirus. Here she draws inspiration from the scriptures. I took the photo on our back […]

Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic 2020 This is another in my series of gift portraits for the sister missionaries. Sister Prusse was a sweetheart. Here she is holding out her missionary badge to be sure it made it into the painting. This portrait should be a valued souvenir of her mission experience for years […]

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 […]

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 […]