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 […]
Category: Portraits
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 […]
Proud Car Owner (Ellis)
by Godfrey Ellis – 12×12 Acrylic Oct 2019 I painted this portrait as a Christmas present for my grandson, Steven. This new (to him) Miata convertible was his first car, purchased soon after his return from a mission to the Philippines. He loved it but soon sold the car because he planned to go to […]
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 […]
The Connection (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Oct 2019 acrylic 12×12 One of my grandsons is Samuel Godfrey Ellis – I like to call him S. Godfrey. Anyway, I loved how he and Sparky the dog made this eye-to-eye connection despite the poor dog’s cataracts! It seemed to tell a story. S. Godfrey is a basketball fan […]
Sarah Meets the Eiffel Tower (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – Oct 2019 acrylic 12×16 When my wife suggested I paint my granddaughter, Sarah, from the crooked snapshot below, I honestly thought she was crazy. “Are you joking?!” First, the composition was all wrong. It would require a tall skinny canvas. Second, her shirt seemed impossible with all that white and […]
Leggings in the Canyon (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 12×16 Acrylic Oct 2019 This portrait was a Christmas gift for my precocious and full-of-life granddaughter, Sadie. It was based on a photo taken during a visit to Superior Canyon in the Tonton National Forest in Arizona (see below). I was concerned not only about the rocks of the cliff […]
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, […]
Pensive Moment
by Godfrey Ellis – 11×14 Acrylic Oct 2019 As she was on a walk with her father one morning, this lovely young girl (Jenna, one of my granddaughters) had a thoughtful moment. I thought the photo that her father, Braden, had snapped looked like a fashion model from a glossy magazine. I wanted to paint […]
The Kitty (Ellis)
by Godfrey J. Ellis – 11×14 Acrylic Oct 2019 One of my three granddaughters in Arizona was fun-loving Amy. Her favorite outfit was this kitty shirt and the floppy fur hood. The painting went very quickly. It essentially painted itself in one day – certainly the fastest I had done to that date. Merry said […]