Happy Valentine’s Day
My Valentine’s gift to you. Have a blessed day regardless of your circumstances and relationships and know that you are loved with everlasting love that goes beyond that of any mortal (John 3:16).
Category: art
Waiting room
Imaginary little girl combined with the real waiting room –drawn while waiting in radiology for a friend who’s daughter has spina bifida. Painted and little girl drawn later in the Spina Bifida clinic while waiting some more.
Funny story about this one. While waiting in the clinic for several hours children and parents came and went. Finally, after reading for some time I decided to work on this a bit more. As I got out my watercolors the sweetest little girl, about 3 years old, came over and started watching me work. She then ran back to her mom on the other side of the room and told her there was a “painter”. The mom shushed her and said no, I was just wearing a beret. She isisted and finally they came over together, her mom tickled pink that I really was an artist and really was working and that I was allowing her sweet little daughter to watch and ask questions while I worked.
Projects
I have had multiple projects–some of which I have been too busy to photograph. We have also spent a week or so rearranging our workspace and doing lots of computer work which means less actual art work getting done.
Here are a few projects that have been sitting on my drawing table waiting to be photographed.
This is Emily Elizabeth, she is still a work in progress but she is becoming quite a character.
Our new chore chart–our chores are house wide and rotate weekly.
Tuesday prompt for December 12
Who is the oldest person in your life?
I know others who are physically older but not well, my grandmother however is the oldest at heart. At 80 she is the same age as our very active neighbor, and though my grandmother is still physically active–she walks several miles daily, her heart is old and careworn. My grandfather passed away 2 years ago and he was the youngest old man I had ever met, he kept her young. And since his passing she has steadily gone down hill.
The drawing is not an accurate one, the only thing I really recognize in it is her left eye–it is very, very right and very, very her. The rest is all just an impression of sorts.
Painting done and listed for sale, plus prints available
This painting, Shoes, is now available for purchase on my Etsy site as well as as print through my Zazzle account (here).
Finished painting: Shoes watercolor
The painting is finished. I am determined to leave it alone now (otherwise I will keep messing and mess it up.) Here is poor photo of the finished product.
This painting will be for sale on my Etsy site.
WIP–Shoes.
Once upon a time, several years ago, a friend of ours was just starting out in the photography business. She was building her portfolio and so took a slew of wonderful photos of our family–the first we had had one since Rach was a baby. Those photos remain the only photos of our whole family we have, and are still favorites. (Two of them are under children on her site–one of Rach alone and one of the girls together.)
She took one of my all time favorite shots of my girls–one that captures them right down to the toes, literally. You can see it in the top left corner. For some time I have wanted to do a painting of it, I have tried several times and couldn’t pull it off. (I could NOT do shoes at all.)
This time, however, it is coming together. I am so excited that I decided to share it before I finished it. 🙂 In fact, I am awfully tempted to leave Rachel’s shoes and legs unfinished. There is something fascinating about it in pencil though I think I will finish it.
Knoch Craft Show
My mom, the girls, and I will be at the Knoch Craft show again this year. You can click here to see my mom at last years (I was behind the camera and the girls were out hawking their goods to other table holders).
I will have some ready made Christmas and birthday cards on hand as well as some prints and paintings you can buy.
New Christmas Card at Zazzle.com
The Christmas Pageant: Angel by hmariey
Make a unique note card Onine with Zazzle.com
View more Major Holidays Cards
Sunday Praise Doodle: Worry
Postcard for autumn mice postcard swap
25“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
26“Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
27“And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?
28“And why are you worried about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin,
29yet I say to you that not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these.
30“But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will He not much more clothe you? You of little faith!
31“Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’
32“For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
33“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
34“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:25-34