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All Is Well
Color Enhancement
I personally hand paint on all of my color-enhanced prints. Each print is unique with its added original brush strokes, creating texture and color richness to key areas. My color enhancement creates the effect of...
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Ask Of God
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Assuming The Mantel
With more than a decade since the last Solemn Assembly, I decided to try my newly honed portrait skills on a portrait of the new LDS Prophet, Thomas S. Monson.
Here is a man of love, courage and conviction. A man who is a good example to th...
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Brigham Young Academy
As a BYU graduate, I learned to love this old building. My daughter now lives just down the street, and I think she is learning to love it too.
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Brother Joseph's Revenge
This painting illustrates the love Joseph had for children and the respectful love they returned. The prophet was not too busy to interact with even the smallest members of his following. I most want you to see how comfortable the children are wit...
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Brothers
I began painting the life of the Prophet Joseph after hearing a song by Kenneth Cope, entitled Brothers. The song tells of the great love of Joseph and Hyrum.
They were more than just brothers; they were the best of friends. They left this lif...
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Christ Appears In The Kirtland Temple
On April 3, 1836, Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery were in the temple at Kirtland, Ohio. The occasion was that of a Sabbath day meeting. The Prophet prefaces his record of the manifestations with these words: "In the afternoon, I assisted the other...
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Crossing The Sandridge
When newly married Robert and Annie Brighton Thornley traveled from their home in northern Utah in 1859 to pick up supplies, one of their oxen gave out in an area called the Sandridge. They continued on for 20 miles (32 km) with Robert sharing th...
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Day Of God's Power
Wilford Woodruff said of this experience:
"While I was living in this cabin in the old barracks, we experienced a day of God’s power with the Prophet Joseph. It was a very sickly time and Joseph had given up his home in Commerce to the sick...
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Desires Of My Heart
"After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God...I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above t...
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Early Morning Visitor
The Beehive House, Brigham Young's home in Salt Lake City, is a favorite of mine. At one time the home was used as a boarding house for young women working in Salt Lake. My mother spent several happy years living there.
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Elect Lady
Through my studies of Joseph Smith I have come to love and respect his beloved wife, Emma. The Lord said of Emma, "Hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, while I speak unto you, Emma Smith, my daughter;…thou art an elect lady, whom I have ca...
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Emma's Hymns
Sometimes when callings come to us in the Church we are tempted to wonder how we can find the time. We are either raising young families, busy with careers, or caught up in the myriad of good things that take our time.
When the Lord gave Em...
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Emperor's Clothes Sketch
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Ephraim K. Hanks - Obeying The Spirit
In early October of 1856, Ephraim K. Hanks received a message from heaven. After a fishing trip to Utah Lake, he spent the night in Draper at the home of Gurney Brown. Soon after retiring to bed, but while still awake, a voice called him by name a...
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Faith In Every Footstep
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Father's Baptism
In the parable of the Lost Sheep the Lord compares Himself to a Good Shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to look for the one sheep who is lost.
It is easy for me to become distracted with things that seem important at the time, only to fin...
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Father's Gift
The gift of life is our most precious gift. The privilege to co-create with our spouse and our Heavenly Father is a sacred trust.
After losing a son, Joseph and Emma knew tragedy again in Kirtland, Ohio, when their newly born twins died wit...
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First Vision
In each of our lives we are faced with confusion. Decisions can be difficult when the answers are unclear. At fourteen years old, Joseph Smith was faced with a country torn be religious revivalism. Preachers of all sects clamored for converts in a...
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Flowers For A Lady
The widow of Robert Thompson wrote of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s kindness to her daughter:
"I can never forget the tender sympathy and brotherly kindness [Joseph] ever showed toward me and my fatherless child. When riding with him and his w...
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