Browse a gallery of Fine Art Photography taken during December 2014.... Read more »

Tags: Early Alpine Snows, 2014, Fine art photography, News, Tanner M. Young

By Al R. Young The The Treasure Seekers Christmas issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - To The Gate of the Red House (4 pages)Hearth - The Most Splendid Drawings (4 pages)Kitchen - Up to the Nursery (6 pages)Music - And Sing It on Winter Nights (1 page)Garden - Mistletoe and Things (4 pages)Workshops - The Best Table-Centre (2 pages)Garret - At the Tongland Wayhoose (2 pages)The Treasure Seekers Christmas is the 91st issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 15 No. 1, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Al R. Young
The 2015 New Testament Reading Schedule Bookmark, published by Deseret Book, features As It Began To Dawn by Elspeth Young, from Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.As It Began To Dawn... Read more »

Tags: As It Began To Dawn, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Al R. Young Our Mothers Knew It is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Our Mothers Knew It, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Heroes of the Book of Mormon Art Collection, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints

By Al R. Young
Two original oil paintings by Elspeth Young, a pen and ink drawing by Ashton Young, and a photograph by Tanner Young are featured in the 29th Annual Spiritual and Religious Art of Utah Exhibition.  Of 347 works submitted, 177 were selected for the juried exhibition.  Frames for the works were prepared by Al Young Studios.

Elspeth's painting of Elisabeth (the mother of John the Baptist), entitled Nothing Shall Be Impossible, was one of twelve works selected for a cash award... Read more »

Tags: This My Son, Nothing Shall Be Impossible, 2014, Exhibits, News

By Al R. Young
A site update on November 8, 2014, featured the following enhancements:The following Operations announcements have been added to the Newsroom:Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrationsStorybook Home Life added to the Newsroom as home page for articles of interest to readers of The Storybook Home Journal and The Storybook Home Journal Blog.

A list of the Christmas issues of The Storybook Home Journal presents links to the 14 Christmas issues published by Al Young Studios since Christmas 2000... Read more »

Tags: 2014, News, Operations announcements

By Al R. Young Women of the New Testament by Camille Fronk Olson is the companion volume to Women of the Old Testament, published by Deseret Book in 2009.

The New Testament volume features fifty six illustrations from the Artists of Al Young Studios, listed here under the Studios' fine art collections and portfolios to which they belong.


From the Women of the Bible Fine Art CollectionFull-color details (cropped images) from the following 29 paintings appeared in the book (in the order in which they appear here)... Read more »

Tags: I Shall Be Whole, I Say Unto Thee, Arise, The Windows Of Heaven, The Miracle Of Forgiveness, What Is Truth, Under Whose Wings Thou Art Come To Trust, Unto The City Of David, A Damsel Came To Hearken, By The Wayside, Living Water, Waiting...

By Al R. Young If you are interested in obtaining a license to copy or publish an existing artwork
produced by the Artists of Al Young Studios, please see
Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

If you are interested in commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations, please be aware of the following:1.   We work on a commission basis.  Only very rarely might we consider working on the basis of a royalty—very rarely... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Illustration, Operations announcements

By Al R. Young
The November 2014 issue of Community Orange Magazine, published by Pixelarius Publishing Worldwide (a subsidiary of Pixelarius Media Group), features seven of Tanner's fine art photographs from Al Young Studios' Fine Art Photography Gallery.  The article also features an interview with Tanner.Antique FordThe Reeds and Rushes and OsiersPeaceful Farmland... Read more »

Tags: Antique Ford, The Reeds and Rushes and Osiers, Peaceful Farmland, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Al R. Young
The New Testament Student Manual, Religion 211-212, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, features She Worketh Willingly With Her Hands by Elspeth Young, from Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.She Worketh Willingly With Her Hands... Read more »

Tags: She Worketh Willingly With Her Hands, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Al R. Young
This portfolio presents maps created by the Artists of Al Young Studios for use in either commercial or non-profit publications and media.  If you are interested in applying to the Studios for a license to reproduce any of these maps, please follow the instructions at Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios.  The Studios will respond as quickly as possible.

If you are interested in commissioning the Studios to create maps and other illustrations, please see Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations

Each thumbnail in this portfolio links to a page presenting the entire image... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Portfolios

By Al R. Young
This portfolio presents drawings created by the Artists of Al Young Studios that can be used as illustrations for material cultures of the Old and New Testaments.  Digital copies of each illustration are available from Al Young Studios for use in either commercial or non-profit publications and media.  If you are interested in applying to the Studios for a license to reproduce any of these original artworks, please follow the instructions at Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios... Read more »

Tags: 2014, News, Portfolios

By Al R. Young
A bi-monthly site update on October 23, 2014, features the following enhancements:Major changes to the format and content of the FAQ page, including correlation of the page with operational and other content in the Newsroom, numbered headings and QA couplets for ready reference, addition of a Services section, review and updating of all content.

The following Operations announcements have been added to the Newsroom since the previous site update:Contacting Al Young Studios
Receiving a shipment from Al Young Studios
Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young StudiosPolicy changes and greater detail concerning framing services available from Al Young Studios... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Operations announcements

By Nancy Young
Long time Storybook Home subscriber and popular Mommy Blogger, Montserrat Wadsworth, lives with her family of twelve on a roomy ranch in northern Nevada.  She gives a glimpse of daily life through the seasons on the Flying W Farm in this Veranda article accompanying the 2014 Autumn Issue of The Storybook Home Journal, featuring The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor H. Porter.... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 6, 2014, The Storybook Home Journal, The Veranda

By Al R. Young
We strongly advise that upon receipt of shipment:The contents of the shipment be carefully unpacked as soon as possible.

Items in the shipment be inspected to ensure that no damage occurred during shipment.

Any suspected damage to shipment contents be reported immediately to the Studios by email or by telephone.  Email may prove preferable because information required in addressing such problems will eventually need to be communicated by email anyway, emails to support@support... Read more »

Tags: 2014, News, Operations announcements, Orders and shipping

By Elspeth C. Young
Other Sheep I Have by Elspeth Young was completed in 2014 and is the 23rd painting in The Messiah Fine Art Collection.
Dimensions width x height32.25 in. x 47 in.


SupportPanel (prepared as described in Preparing a painting ground


MilestonesResearch begins - 2010 February
Composition begins - 2014 April
Brushwork begins - 2014 May


EquipmentCreating a painting often involves creating or modifying tools or making improvements to the studio itself.

Panel-support Accessory for A-Frame Easel
Clamp-on Brush Holders for Easel Framework


Costume, Props, and MiniaturesCreating a painting can also involve creative projects focused on setting, costume, props, and other features of the composition... Read more »

Tags: Other Sheep I Have, 2014, Project commentaries, Tips and techniques

By Al R. Young... Read more »

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By Al R. Young
The panel-support accessory shown in the following photographs enables the A-frame easel to accommodate a greater diversity of painting-support sizes, and is better adapted to Elspeth's needs.
The framework is 40 3/8 in. wide and 94 7/8 in. tall.  It is made almost entirely of alder, milled in the Studios' shop.  The arms by which C-clamps secure the framework to the original A-frame easel, are 30 in. long.  The ends of the arms at the C-clamps are free of the original easel, which provides maximum flexibility in positioning the framework... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Tools supplies and operations

By Al R. Young The Six Star Ranch issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - Turned Toward The West (6 pages)Hearth - A Storehouse (4 pages)Kitchen - Supper on the Ranch (6 pages)Music - I Want Them All (1 page)Garden - And Pick One if I Could (2 pages)Workshops - A Piece Of Prairie Grass (1 page)Garret - The Crossing at Buckland Burn (2 pages)Six Star Ranch is the 90th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 6, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Al R. Young
To initiate a request for permission to reproduce images of artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios, please email to us the following information.  Answering these questions at the outset of your inquiry expedites our review of the application.1.   Identify each artwork, in which you are interested, by title and serial number.  Click here to browse the Studios' illustration portfolios.

2.   Description of intended use to be made of the image(s), such as the nature of the publication, presentation of the image in the publication, and media in which the publication will be distributed... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Illustration, News, Operations announcements

By Al R. Young
A major site update on September 10, 2014, provides the following enhancements for the convenience of visitors and patrons:Newsroom added to the site as the Studios' single, online news and feature source - Involved porting more than 1000 articles from our blogs.
Limited Editions Collection added to the site.
Presentation of each collection of oil paintings has been simplified.  For example, see the Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.
Page created for The Papers of Seymore Wainscott... Read more »

Tags: 2014, News, Operations announcements

By Al R. Young
We have added a Newsroom to our flagship Internet site (www.alyoung.com).
The Newsroom presents the blog posts and blog-page contents that have appeared on our blog suite since we initiated them in January 2010.  Categories associated with each Newsroom article offer the same functionality and view of content that have been available on the Studios' blogs.  And because of the way the Newsroom presents article summaries, we sincerely hope visitors will find that the Newsroom actually makes it easier to peruse the hundreds of articles accumulated during the last four and a half years... Read more »

Tags: 2014, News, Operations announcements

By Al R. Young
The New Testament Made Easier, published by Cedar Fort, featured five original oil paintings by Elspeth Young and one of Ashton Young's original oil paintings, all from Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.Go Forth To Meet The BridegroomAnd Martha ServedAnd He Shall Direct Thy PathsShe Worketh Willingly With Her HandsEstablished In The FaithA Damsel Came To Hearken... Read more »

Tags: A Damsel Came To Hearken, And He Shall Direct Thy Paths, She Worketh Willingly With Her Hands, Established In The Faith, And Martha Served, Go Forth To Meet The Bridegroom, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Al R. Young
When I began experimenting with lithography in 1996, I focused on tonal rendering instead of line drawing because tonal pencil drawings had occupied much of my attention as an artist up until that time.
The work of artists whose interests draw them toward line as a means of expression has always delighted me, but my own interests invariably drew me toward tone instead.  I came to realize that were I to pursue line, I would have to study idiom and technique before I could express the subject; indeed, before I could even discover my own artistic identity in terms of line and then complete the long and arduous journey toward mastery... Read more »

Tags: Elspeth’s Hollyhocks, North Shore, Nasturtium, Wald Kirche, Old Dominion, Scabiosa, A Boy’s Prayer, Foxglove, Moonlit, Waiting, Untitled, Narcissus on beige paper, Narcissus on gray paper, July, The Almira, Columbine, Maine, Final Draft,

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
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Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: Other Sheep I Have, 2014, Book of Mormon characters

By Al R. Young Other Sheep I Have is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Other Sheep I Have, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Heroes of the Book of Mormon Art Collection, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, The Messiah Art Collection

By Al R. Young There The Saints Will Be Blessed is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: There The Saints Will Be Blessed, 2014, Ashton R. Young, High Valley Art Collection, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints

By Al R. Young The A Fairytale Summer issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - Cinderella's Kitchen (5 pages)Hearth - Resplendent Beauty (1 page)Kitchen - Nibble, Nibble On My House (3 pages)Music - Old Tunes Very Excellent (1 page)Garden - Dame Gothel's Garden (7 pages)Workshops - Ingenious Contrivance (4 pages)Garret - Heaven Answers Every Prayer (2 pages)A Fairytale Summer is the 89th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 5, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Elspeth C. Young

The Enchanted April is as magical as its name implies.  Not merely a description of an idyllic Easter vacation in a medieval castle (San Salvatore), the work's pace, its poetic language, and its cleverness create a rest cure for the reader as well as its heroines.  Von Arnim transplants four women, sporting archetypal women's woes, from their dreary London existence, between the wars, to a little stay in Heaven.

The reader meets self-righteous Rose Arbuthnot, who has sought wearisome toil as a means of compensating for lack of conjugal felicity; socially awkward Lottie Wilkins, whose love of beauty has been all but smothered by her gloomy Hampstead life; wealthy and widowed Mrs... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 3, 2014, Book reviews

By Elspeth C. Young

If you love Jane Austen, read Framley Parsonage.  Its principal heroine, Lucy Robarts, is as witty, winning, and utterly lovable as Elizabeth Bennett, and on a scale of one to Mr. Darcy, the male romantic lead, Lord Lufton, rates at least a solid nine.

Set in Trollope's West Barsetshire, this fourth book in the Barsetshire Chronicles is my personal favorite.  Readers watch the rise and fall (and rise again) of Framley's young parson, Mark Robarts, and rejoice in the constancy of his beloved wife and best champion, Fanny... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 13 No. 3, 2014, Book reviews

By Al R. Young
From the summer of 2012 through the spring of 2013, Al Young Studios participated in the renovation of the conference center at Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley.  Our involvement in the project consisted of creating the original artworks featured in the conference center.  The paintings and museum-quality frames are described on the pages listed here, which also offer commentary on the creation of the artworks.

Visit us on Pinterest to see more photos
of the Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley conference center project... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Overview, Project commentaries

Browse a gallery of Fine Art Photography taken during July 2014.... Read more »

Tags: Near the Treeline, Beyond the Mountain Lake, 2014, Fine art photography, News, Tanner M. Young

By Ashton R. Young
This portrait of Tamar will be the 47th oil painting in the Women of the Bible Collection.  It was completed to meet the production schedule for Women of the New Testament by Camille Fronk Olson.  The book, currently in press, is scheduled for release through Deseret Book later in 2014.

Dimensions (width x height)
22.25 in. x 39.75 in.

Support
Panel

Milestones
Composition begins - circa April 2012
Brushwork begins - circa August 2012

Methodology
This section presents only one or two items that may be of interest to professional artists, amateurs, and others interested in the work of the Studios... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Project commentaries, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
Return to this portfolio
Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: What Is Truth, 2014, People and Stories of the Bible

By Al R. Young Elspeth completed Waiting For The Promise (Rahab) in 2005, but we have only recently been able to obtain a higher-resolution digital image of the original oil painting, making it possible for us to offer a more complete selection of print sizes featuring the painting. Accordingly, we are pleased to announce that 33 fine-art print styles and sizes of this new image are now available at www.alyoung.com, ranging in price from $4.05 (4 in. x 5.25 in. poster print) to $326 (24 in... Read more »

Tags: 3.64.0260.010, 2014, News, Oil paintings and prints, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Elspeth C. Young

Elspeth's new portrait of Elisabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, will be the 44th oil painting in the Women of the Bible Collection.  It was completed to meet the production schedule for Women of the New Testament by Camille Fronk Olson.  The book, currently in press, is scheduled for release through Deseret Book later in 2014.

Dimensions (width x height)
14 in. x 20 in.

Support
Panel

Milestones
Research begins - January 2012
Composition begins - September 2010
Brushwork begins - January 2014

Methodology
This section presents only one or two items that may be of interest to professional artists, amateurs, and others interested in the work of the Studios... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Inspiration and creativity, Project commentaries, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young The Miracles of Jesus, published by Deseret Book, featured I Shall Be Whole, by Al R. Young.  The painting is part of Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.... Read more »

Tags: I Shall Be Whole, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Al R. Young When I embarked on oil painting, I spent a lot of time mixing the colors of the rudimentary palette with which a mentor suggested I begin.  And because of ideas that correlate color with wheels, I arranged the colors and my experiments accordingly, as I methodically mixed colors in the abstract and also created tonal scales.

If I used a lot of a particular hue in a particular mixture my record of the formula consisted of a big dot for the part the hue played in the mixture.  Addition of a little bit of a hue was represented by a little dot... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Color, Tips and techniques

By Al R. Young The Penelope Travels Abroad issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - On The Canvas Of Your Heart (9 pages)Hearth - The Three Lovliest Models (3 pages)Kitchen - Tea In The Bay Window (11 pages)Music - Such Stirring Melodies (2 pages)Garden - Beautiful As Italy (3 pages)Workshops - Cunning Fingered Elves (1 page)Garret - Pack Your Bags for a Beaver (2 pages)Penelope Travels Abroad is the 88th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 4, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Al R. Young Steadfastly Minded is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Steadfastly Minded, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, Pioneer Art Collection

By Al R. Young The tray (ledge) used on the $10 easel is secured to the easel by means of C-clamps that hold it in place against the vertical 2x10s (i) in the following diagram.

The following photograph shows the tray turned backwards (its back faces the camera) to show the metal tabs by means of which C-clamps (positioned at B and C) hold it against the 2x10s.  The metal tabs at B align with the inner face of the 2x10s.  The metal tabs at C make it possible to secure the tray to the cutwork profile at the bottom ends of each 2x10 (i in the diagram, above)... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Tools supplies and operations

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
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Browse all portfolios
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The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: Under Whose Wings Thou Art Come To Trust, 2014, People and Stories of the Bible

By Al R. Young Under Whose Wings Thou Art Come To Trust is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Under Whose Wings Thou Art Come To Trust, 2014, Al R. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young What Is Truth is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: What Is Truth, 2014, Al R. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
Return to this portfolio
Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: By The Wayside, 2014, People and Stories of the Bible

By Al R. Young By The Wayside is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: By The Wayside, 2014, Ashton R. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young Till We Meeting Again, an original oil painting by Elspeth Young, received an Award of Merit at the 90th Annual Spring Salon hosted by the Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah.
The juried exhibit (April 24 – July 6, 2014) is open only to Utah artists.
Of 860 entries submitted, 216 were juried-in to the show, and 20 of the works selected also received awards.

"We've noticed," said Rita Wright, director of the Museum, "that, almost without exception, everybody that walks into the gallery, enjoys Legacy (Portrait of Lois Childs) by Casey Childs (the first axial view in the exhibit), and then turns right around, and immediately migrates to the corner to view Till We Meet Again... Read more »

Tags: Till We Meet Again, 2014, Exhibits, News, Pioneer Art Collection

By Al R. Young
Growing Light by Elspeth Young is the inside back cover of the May 2014 issue of the Ensign magazine. It is also concurrently the back cover of the Liahona magazine. Both periodicals are published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The oil painting is part of the Studios' Pioneer Fine Art Collection.

Forty four sizes of open-edition prints of the painting (on paper or giclee canvas), as well as a bookmark print of the image, are available online at www... Read more »

Tags: Growing Light, 3rd-party Publications, 2014, News

By Nancy Young Photographs by Elspeth Young
Yet again, our May Day flower phantom caught us napping and surprised us with a delightful little bouquet--this year a bouquet of Gerber daisies. Thank you whoever you are!
The first of May bouquet (along with a long line of ads) reminds me that Mother's Day is closer at hand than I'd like to believe--especially since The Enchanted April issue has only been in circulation for a couple of weeks. Currently we're traveling with Kate Douglas Wiggin as our guide through Penelope's multiple tours, tales, and experiences... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 4, 2014, Recommended reading

By Al R. Young Just like the willful professors in competing courses during any given semester, painting projects don't always stay in line or behave well if they do.  And sometimes an artist's ability to respond to conflicting demands depends not so much on stamina, speed, or skill as on whether studio space or the way the studio is organized can respond.

The bedpost easel--so named because the horizontal bar at its center was originally a bedpost)--grew out of the need to use the $10 easel to work simultaneously on two paintings... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Tools supplies and operations

By Al R. Young Although I enjoy the flexibility of positioning allowed by my aspen mahl stick, I sometimes spend several hours engaged in very close work on a relatively small area of a painting.  For such sessions, I enjoy the freedom of a clamp-on hand rest such as the accessory shown, here, designed specifically for the $10 easel.... Read more »

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By Al R. Young The The Enchanted April issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - Next Door To Heaven (3 pages)Hearth - If She Doesn't Paint (5 pages)Kitchen - An Excellent Cook (7 pages)Garden - Wisteria And Sunshine (3 pages)Workshops - A Net Over Her Bed (2 pages)Garret - Being My Own Whiskers (2 pages)The Enchanted April is the 87th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 3, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
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Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: Blessed Are The Meek, 2014, People and Stories of the Bible

By Al R. Young Blessed Are The Meek is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Blessed Are The Meek, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, The Messiah Art Collection, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young A new photography gallery at www.alyoung.com features original works by Tanner M. Young. Images in this gallery are available as either Luster Prints or Canvas Giclees in a variety of sizes.

Image categories in this portfolio include:

Architecture
Black and White
Landscape
Panorama
Timpanogos

Purchases are routed through our shopping cart with the same shipping rates, quantity discounts, order tracking, and other services already available for products from Al Young Studios.

Periodic additions to this gallery will be announced in this Newsroom as well as our social media... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Fine art photography, News

By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
Return to this portfolio
Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
The original image is available for sale, please contact us for details... Read more »

Tags: Nothing Shall Be Impossible, 2014, People and Stories of the Bible

By Al R. Young Nothing Shall Be Impossible is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: Nothing Shall Be Impossible, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints, The Messiah Art Collection, Women of the Bible Art Collection

By Al R. Young I made this brush holder for painting sessions that involve only a few small brushes.  Since the palette mounted on the pallette-cart is topped with glass, a suede or nap finished piece of leather is glued to the base of the holder to keep it steady.... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Tools supplies and operations

By Al R. Young The flood lights mounted to a track on the west wall of the studio augment natural light pouring in through the two windows on the north and the two windows on the east walls of the studio.  Archways in the lower half of the west wall also admit light into the studio.  The studio ceiling is two stories high, and light at the upper level pours in from interior archways on the west wall as well as an exterior window on the south.

We use a natural-light flood in each of the three track-mounted fixtures... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Tools supplies and operations

By Al R. Young
This My Son by Elspeth Young appears in the March 2014 issue of the New Era magazine, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. On the magazine's Facebook presence, the image received 2,364 likes and 715 shares.

The new painting is the 14th original artwork in the Studios' Book of Mormon Fine Art Collection, and the 158th image in the Studios' commercially available fine-art portfolio.

Eleven sizes of open-edition prints of the painting (on paper or giclee canvas) are available online at www... Read more »

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By Al R. Young This My Son is the newest oil painting to be added to the line of original artworks from Al Young Studios.

Click here to see a larger image of the new painting, read the artist's commentary, and look at the selection of prints--if any are available.... Read more »

Tags: This My Son, 2014, Elspeth C. Young, Heroes of the Book of Mormon Art Collection, Legacy, News, Oil paintings and prints

By Al R. Young The Northanger Abbey issue of The Storybook Home Journal is now available from Al Young Studios.  This issue features these regular sections:Decorating - The Breakfast Room (3 pages)Hearth - A Notion Of Drawing (6 pages)Kitchen - In Quest Of Pastry, Millinery, And Young Men (5 pages)Garden - To Love A Hyacinth (4 pages)Workshops - A Campaign Breakfast Table (1 page)Garret - A Journey into the Wilderness (2 pages)Northanger Abbey is the 86th issue of the Journal, published bi-monthly since November 2000... Read more »

Tags: Vol. 14 No. 2, 2014, News, The Storybook Home Journal issues

By Al R. Young This blank-book journal sells for $32 (plus shipping) direct from Al Young Studios.  Printed in full color on heavy paper, the book is bound with black plastic spiral to rest flat when open.

At Home: A Personal Journal  features 128 original artworks consisting of 51 original oil paintings from the Artists of Al Young Studios, 44 images from the Studios' Limited Editions Collection, nine pen and ink drawings and block prints by Ashton, seven of Al's exquisitely crafted pencil drawings, and one lithograph from his private portfolios... Read more »

Tags: North Shore, Nasturtium, Wald Kirche, Scabiosa, Foxglove, Narcissus on beige paper, July, Columbine, Maine, Final Draft, Unfurling, Back Shore, Summer's End, Gifts of Morn, Black-eyed Susan, Land's End, Solitude, The Limberlost, Perdita,

By Al R. Young The February 2014 issue of the Ensign Magazine, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, featured God Liveth And Seeth Me by Elspeth Young in an article entitled "Abrahamic Covenant."  Elspeth's original oil painting is part of Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.... Read more »

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By Al R. Young The February 2014 issue of the Ensign Magazine, published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, featured God Liveth And Seeth Me by Elspeth Young in an article entitled "Abrahamic Covenant."  Elspeth's original oil painting is part of Al Young Studios' Women of the Bible Fine Art Collection.... Read more »

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By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

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Neither prints of this image nor the original are for sale... Read more »

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By Al R. Young
High-resolution digital copies are available from the Studios for use as illustrations.  Use the serial number—appearing below the thumbnail—in requesting permission from the Studios (see links at the bottom of this page for detail).


The correct form of attribution when publishing an image is specified in the license agreement issued to the publisher by Al Young Studios.Guidelines for requests to copy or publish artworks created by the Artists of Al Young Studios

Guidelines for commissioning Al Young Studios to create illustrations
Return to this portfolio
Browse all portfolios
Browse Newsroom articles about Illustration
Neither prints of this image nor the original are for sale... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Maps of Bible Lands

By Nancy Young with photographs by Tanner Young and Elspeth Young

If you dream of some peak at the sun or ache for a long weekend of warmth, you know you live in northern climes and it's winter. But if a ticket to Crete, Corsica, or Cannes wasn't  one of your stocking stuffers on Christmas morning, spend a leisurely breakfast with a large bowl of sunshiny oranges, clementines, or mangoes, some rosewater-scented honey, and one of the slightly indulgent delicacies described here. Then dream away... Read more »

Tags: 2014, Bread making, Recipes by Nancy Young