So yesterday I figured that if I donā€™t have a job I should at least try to paint & maybe send some emails about getting into a local boutique/gallery.
Since Iā€™ve got a digital camera itā€™s a lot easier to draw figures. So if your thinking to yourself ā€œhey, that looks sort of like Trevorā€ youā€™re right.

I donā€™t know what happened to my left arm. I think I stopped looking at the photo I was drawing from and started drawing from memory. Thatā€™s why itā€™s twice as big as it should be. It’s acrylic and gouache on wood and measures about 2 ft x 1.2 ft.

I painted this to trade for a jump drive. It measures 2 ft x 4 ft. (ish)

Yesterday I took some photos of my skateboard. This is really the only one that I like, but it still feels like itā€™s a little flat.

Today Iā€™m going to try to take three more and present them as a triptych.

Yesterday my Pentax *ist DS2 came in the mail. The first photos in this set are of my bud Bruce.

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These photos are of Trace. Today we (sort of) had an art day. Lately our arts days donā€™t have much to do with art and I always end up taking him to his girlfriends house and the end.



So there you go. Some of the first photographs from my new DSLR.

Ok. So trevorchristensen.com has been updated. If youā€™re into that sort of thing then take a look.

This is my grandfather, affectionately called ā€œGrompieā€ by everyone who ever knew him while there were under the age of five. When editing these photos I was struck with how much I noticed about my grandfatherā€™s that I hadnā€™t before. It makes sense that when my entire focus is on him I would see more then I normally do.

This picture is from about the middle of my Sophomore year. I took it while wandering around the student housing just of campus of BYU. Here are some things that I like about this picture.
1. The light cast on the fence from the setting sun.
2. The harsh but not completely black shadow cast by Griffin.
3. The height of his jump.
4. The only truly bright (white) part of the picture is the fence.
5. I just like it.
The thing is (and it is a deal breaker) that heā€™s not in focus. When I took this picture I was experimenting with focus. So the sign, not the subject is in focus.
Aww.

When I go to job interviews this it how I look. Aquward stare, hands in pockets and dread-ponytail. Maybe this is why Iā€™m unemployed?

In an effort to not be poor and unhappy Iā€™ve put up a portfolio on trevorchristensen.com. Itā€™s twelve black and white images that Iā€™m pretty happy with. And with a little luck maybe Iā€™ll get a job somewhere (sometime). Incidentally the portraits from that page are some of the ones appearing in the art show that Trace and I are having.

Iā€™m not sure how much Iā€™ve talked about the art show that Trace and I are planning to do but hereā€™s a rundown. Trace Willamson draws people, I photograph them. When neither of us are feeling it we he draws and I paint (citris).

So weā€™re planning on having an art show. Gallery One Ten is the tentative location, but nothingā€™s set in stone. The theme is People and will feature people Iā€™ve photographed and people Trace has drawn. Iā€™m about half way done with my portion of the show and Trace is about the same.

Unless we think of a better name for the show itā€™s title is Indies and Outies.

So thatā€™s what going on.

The great thing about the name Landon is it lends itself to so many good nicknames. Landog, Landizzle, Landude, Landouche, Landick.

One really canā€™t go wrong.

This is my first time shooting anyone over the age of fifty (an ā€˜old personā€™ if you will), if I were to do it again Iā€™d put some more light on the front of his face to take a little less shadow from the winkles.

Anyway, this is my grandfather. For as long a I can remember heā€™s been called ā€œGrompieā€.



So thereā€™s some fun insider information for you.