I forgot to post this painting. This was a commission for my coworker. She wanted a wedding present for her son and soon to be wife. Paintings make a really fun unique wedding present. I was a little hesitant to paint a kissing picture, but gave in because it was my coworker's favorite picture of the couple. I loved that the photograph was taken outside and in the shade. It gave it some nice cool tones.

Friday Painting

I was so excited when they wanted to experiment with flex days at work, because that meant that I could go to the Friday painting every other week and paint from live models. There's just something special being able to paint from life. It gives me a renewed ambition to go for my goals. This is my most recent head study. It was about a 3 hour painting.

Painting Commission

A commission I did for my niece Ashlie's 16th birthday.

My Website-www.janstoddardart.com

I have been working on getting my website going for a long time, and it finally happened-thanks to my niece and nephew-Hannah and James. It's exciting cause now you can buy straight from my website instead of from a gallery, which makes it so I can sell them for less. I know that original artwork can be expensive, so I have prints of my artwork available as well for a reasonable price.

For Sell on Etsy

My still life paintings are now for sell on Etsy. I am starting out with a pretty low price for original oils, but I just really want to start selling my work. Check it out!

high maitenance

I entered this drawing into the winter 2010 student art show and it received an honorable mention.

life Painting

These are a few paintings from my life painting class.

Figure Drawing

These are a few figures from my drawing class last semester.

BFA Senior Project

I have a strong passion for all the arts; performing and visual. I especially love to dance and to paint. I wanted to show through the medium of oil paint the beauty, motion, and expression of dancing, and that each dance genre evokes a different emotion. Thus as I approached each painting I had a different intent for each piece. I had this in mind as I chose the colors costumes, composition, shapes, and position. My hope through this presentation is to convey the arts in an uplifting and inspiring way.

Ballet-Elegant

Swing-Smooth

Modern-Intense

Jazz-Pizzazz

Break-Edged

Sculpture-Martha

I did this sculpture to represent Martha Graham one of the pioneers of modern dance. If you are familiar with Martha's choreography-this pose is one of her famous moves.

2009 Art Show

This painting was displayed in the Fall 2009 student art show.

Life Painting

For life painting we painted models from life. We did a head study every class. These are just a few of my favorites from that class.

Parson's head drawing class

These drawings are from Brother Parson's head drawing class. We experimented with varying styles including: line only, white and black charcoal on canvas, shadow only, and light only.

Persuasion

This is another illustration that is for the book Persuasion. It can either be the book cover, or one of the illustrations inside. It depicts the emotional moment when Ann reads a letter from Captain Wentworth stating that he still loves her.

dance in motion

With this drawing I really wanted to create a feeling of the elegant movement that you get from dancing.

book cover

I really enjoyed this piece. I did both the illustration and the graphic design for this book cover. I wanted to show the climactic event in the book where the trolls are turned into stone just as the sun hit them. It was humorous telling the boys who modeled for me in the photo shoot that I was turning them in to trolls--all except little Bilbo Baggins of course.

the beginning

I am so excited as I start this art blog. I feel that the day of procrastinating setting up this blog is over, and now I have a place to direct people as they want to view my art. My hopes are to share what talents I have been blessed with, inspire others to start creating, to have meaningful conversations about the arts in general, to keep myself motivated to persue the arts at times that are hard, and to start selling what art I have-I guess that is every artist's dream. :) Enjoy and let me know what your thoughts are.

dancers

I love drawing and painting dancers. My sisters and I are dancers. I love to show the beauty of the human figure through dance.

still life

landscapes