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Category Drawing & Painting

Red and Green

The felty finish of this digital illustration is the result of many layers with a custom-designed brush using ProCreate and an iPad. I enjoyed working on the plaid weaving layer over layer of color. The center vessel reminds me of…

Gold Fish 02

Painting of a fish with a gold background

Gold Fish 02 is a gelli plate monoprint with high flow acrylic paint. Red paint was added behind the gold paint to tone the gold.

Beach Body

A buff penguin

Beach Body is my version of a buff penguin on the shores of Antarctica. It is a relief print made from three carved plates a blue, orange, and black on Mohawk superfine. The plates are carved on Sinatra plastic plates.…

Sad Fish

This sad fish is a digital image referencing relief printing. The following shows the process one layer at a time. Relief printing is a reductive process and so the image was created with the eraser tool instead of the paintbrush.

Light Restored

Light & Truth Restored

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I recognize one of the greatest events in modern history as the appearance of the Father and the Son to Joseph Smith Jr. in a Grove of trees…

Life in Lyman: Reruns

Life in Lyman is a series of stamps about my family when the kids were young. The files are on the recovered hard drive. This one is about my daughter Charlotte who likes to cut her hair.

Moo

Moo from Cowbird (unpublished) | digital 18 × 12 inches | I have been sick about losing this project. It is my first complete children’s book that I did for my MFA project. I was happy to discover a black…

Peaches Preserved

Peaches Preserved | 5 × 7 digital image, printed on 8 × 10 paper | I just revived a hard drive that I thought was gone-for-good. So now is a good time to share all that has been preserved or…

Lonely

(Reposted on 11/28/2020) I am feeling this lonely kind of isolation today. In sitting in my small studio looking out my window. I am done with COVID-19, I wish C-19 was done with us.

The Krakens

My Doodle-a-day project is featured today on The Krakens. It is a web gallery featuring work by LDS artists. Take a peek I am sure you will enjoy it. …/scott-franson-doodle-a-day/

Maybe there is a story here

Tree Elf | I discovered this little tree elf today when creating the post-it-doodle-a-day. He just emerged in a shy friendly way. There may be a story here. He has been playing in my head most of the day.

Doodle Process

Here is a glimpse into the process of creating Post-it-doodle-a-day from 5 February thru 8 May 2016. These doodles were created digitally with an app called ProCreate on an iPad with the Apple Pencil. The process videos are built into…

Digital Painting experiment

Aboriginal Pointillism | I don’t know where this will go but it is really fun to do. Let me know if you like it.

NASA Wannabe

Asteroid | Can you build a sandcastle on an asteroid? Are Asteroids hollow? Would you want to be the first present to set foot on an asteroid? The deep questions of a NASA wannabe.

Simple Pattern

A simple pattern today | I am trying to find a use for the loose rough way I draw. I want to add content. I feel more like a passenger in a car enjoying a ride that the driver of…

White Elephant

With my eyes closed | I really want to be more free from worry with my drawing. This is a white elephant. The line drawing is done with my eyes closed. It isn’t even ink on paper but it still…

Octo-Mac-plumbing

Maybe even a little Japanese | This drawing was completely unexpected but I kind of like it. I have been working on an octopus character and it looks nothing like this. I like when sketching opens up options.

Flax

Blue Flax | Blue flax has long been my favorite wildflower. I first noticed it on our honeymoon when I picked a small bouquet of it for my new wife. So whenever I see it I think of her. It…

Family Reunion

Family Reunion | It started with the lady in the beehive and then I added more faces and a rabbit. It doesn’t really mean anything more than that. I like it and for today that is enough. Have a great day!

Rain

Rain | It has been a creative rainy day. I made changes to my picture book. It feels like it is going in a good direction but I can’t quite see where it will end up. So the process goes…

Dead End

Do you ever find yourself suddenly in the middle of nowhere? | I received a good thoughtful critique about the picture book I am working on this morning. There is still more work to do but for the moment I…

Corrugated Trees

Corrugated Trees | The corrugation is one of my favorite textures that I haven’t found much use for. I think the texture and repetition of the vertical lines are comfortable regular rhythms.

Window Flowers

Window Flowers | I am growing several plants right now a geranium, a pineapple, and a dwarf blueberry bush. I am having a difficult time deciding if they should be inside or out. Inside is too easy for them and…

Wild flowers

Wild flowers | This year I planted a big chunk of my backyard into wild flowers. I highly recommend it. The seeds were a Western wild flower mix. It has been fun to see what comes up. I have more…