Peace on Earth

Peace on earth and goodwill to all!
Merry Christmas.

Yes, I am Still Painting

Having a wonderful time!

Sarasota Art & Frame Exhibition

Had a wonderful time at opening artist reception at Sarasota Art & Frame on October 16, the show will be up until November 22. The theme was Summertime Beauty. My lady wanted to dress up and go. She made a grand entrance. But she wondered why she didn't put a flower in her hat, if this was her Sunday-go-to-meeting outfit.  Nextime.

LIFE IS LIKE A STAGE

The circle of life.
Life is like a stage we all have our parts to play. What will it be?

She Wore Flowers in Her Hair

And Kept Her Secrets.

HAPPY SEPTEMBER, fall is in the air, yes, even
here in Florida.

Happy Birthday Greetings

Happy Birthday to me, the little girl who through it all learned to trust in Jesus, learned to trust in God.
It has been a wonder-filled journey filled with lots of grace, trials, love, tears, blessings and more
grace. Onward and upward. Thank you.

One Heart Three Bodies

Happy August! Acrylic on
canvas.

They Loved to Hear the Story & Thank you

 Number 29

And this is Number 20, thanks for following me on this journey. It has been like being on vacation.

Painting 27 & 28

 Someone to Watch over me

The Guardians

Treading Water and She Didn't Know if she should be a butterfly or an angel

 Treading Water, acrylic
Number 25

She Didn't Know If She Should be a butterfly
or an angel.
Number 26

LOOK TO THE HILLS

 Day 24 of my 30 day challenge
11 x 14 acrylic.

WALKING ON SUNSHINE

This is day 21,22,23 of 30 day challenge.
A collage and 2 paintings, when I laid one on top of the other I thought it was quite grand. Acrylic skins, acrylic paint and fabric.

DREAMERS

20 OF THE 30 DAY CHALLENGE. ENCAUSTIC WAX
THANK YOU.

Untitled encaustic figure

18/30 still attempting to paint figures with encaustic waxes.
I will catch up, I will catch up.

GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that...hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that..."
                                                                    -----MLK 1963

John 1:5--In Him was life and the life was the Light of men.  The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
                                                                       ---Plato

IF BIRDS CAN FLY

OVER THE RAINBOW, WHY THEN OH WHY CAN'T I??

16 OUT OF 30 PAINTINGS

ARE YOU MY MOTHER?

"Are you my mother?"  Look at her eyes....


My 13 out of 30, moving along.

SUMMERTIME 3

14 day painting. My muse is still staying under the water......it is just too, too hot outside.

SUMMERTIME 2

This is  my 13th out of 30 paintings for the month of
June. I will catch up and do my 30.  Someone told me there is also a yellow submarine in this photo, can you see it?

Summertime

And the Living is Easy. Day12 of my challenge.
Encaustic pigments.

Fish are Jumping' Day 11

I am sliding into encaustic waxes after my first 10 paintings. I will now do 10 encaustic paintings if things go as I planned.

Burning Bush

I wanted to name this standing on the promise, but on my morning walk, Burning bush came to me and I said, that's it! The Cardinals were there. Day 10

Day 9 Posting for 30 day challenge

The Cardinal came first, he started as a random glob of paint on the canvas. I outlined him and Voila!
The Red Bird shows up a lot in my paintings. I was born in North Carolina, The Cardinal is the state bird, he was always around and the grown-ups said that the birds worked for Santa Claus and was watching to see if we were naughty or nice. They were everywhere.
As I continued with this painting, I could not decide what to name it, the woman with the rainbow on her shoulder or Secrets etc.  So, I decided to google the significance of the Red Cardinal.
I officially blew my own mind. My hand has stopped shaking now.

The Cherokee Indians (they were abundant in NC at one time) believe that the cardinal is the daughter of the un. Legend has it that if you see a cardinal flying upward, toward the sun, you will have good luck.. he wants you to examine the areas of your life in which you are, or should be, a leader. Is your confidence shaky? The cardinal tells you that you can handle it and to believe in yourself.The cardinal's bright red feathers and cheerful song calls attention to him wherever he goes. If you see a cardinal, it may be telling you to stand up, lift your head high, and take pride in yourself.

Accept compliments that come your way..The cardinal's bright red plumage also calls you to open yourself up and get your creativity flowing again...Red is the color of the root chakra, the energy center associated with stability, survival and security.

I guess the Cardinal is still watching me. There is a next outside my studio window. The name of the painting is Daughter of the Sun.

WHAT SHE SAW IN THE MIRROR

MY DAY 8 PAINTING.  Moving along in my
30 day challenge. This was a painting I had done and decided
to paint over it, had to stop because I saw the image and decided it had to be there.

She Couldn't See the Forest for the Trees

Day 7: This one started out as an expressive, intuitive touch drawing  art painting with tissue paper on masonite board. I had to decipher the story and pull it out. I'll find the original with the tissue paper and post, so you can see the progress.

Really had been stuck behind the couch for over a year waiting to tell the story.

This is how it looked when I first started painting.

9000 VIEWS THIS MONDAY MORNING!

Thank all of you out there in blog land. This has been quite a journey. I don't know who
you are.....but you know me and my art.

Happy Monday to you all!

Loving Her Dress of Muticolored Skins

Kethoneth, a hebrew word for dress or garment of various colored skins or garments of light.

Day 6 of my 30 day challenge.

After putting them up on my blog, I realize that the
dress does look like people. This is her dress of many colors.....

Life for her ain't been no crystal stair...

The quote is from a poem by Langston Hughes.
Day 5 of my 30 day paint challenge. I was trying to paint a landscape.....I did the colors and then I waited, and when it dried I saw the 2 eyes and I had to go with the spirit of the paint.

THE TREE OF MANY COLORS BECKONED HER

Yep, the tree of many colors is calling her. She feels  the pull........

JUNE

She told me her name is June which means, "she knows" People with this name are dynamic, visionary & versatile, able to make relationships easily.  They may be changeable, restless, untidy and rebellious.....Hummm, I just noticed in my painting number 1 I said that I was falling into the abyss of "not knowing" and June knows......................

COLORS ARE SWIRLING AROUND ME

Day 2. Colors swirling around. Acrylic on 12 x 12 black canvas. Loving this.

Into the Abyss

I belong to a group that has challenged us to paint 30 paintings in 30 days. What does it mean to start at the beginning. What changes in this place, am I excited about something new? Beginning to go into the abyss of not knowing. Feeling shaky, strong, introspective and alive. I WILL rise.
Number 1. I am posting to keep myself accountable.

Faith Possibilities Wisdom

Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday at First Congregational United Church of Christ.

We wove our remnants filled with our prayers onto the Cross.
Throughout Scripture, God is always picking up the pieces and making a new creation with remnants.

We partially travelled up that hill that He could only travel alone
 The price was paid in full.  Praise the Lord. Thank you.

We are not alone.

We are not alone, God is with us.
His DNA is in us all, we enrich each
others lives.  Thank you.

Life is the Song

God's Love is the Music.