My gallery is closed at this time, but I still have a huge selection of paintings here at home. Here’s a quick and dirty show and tell. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 7 other subscribers Email Address…
Look at these babies! They now hang on the wall of the family’s home where the dogs live. I love how the elephant looks like he’s trumpeting at them, haha! Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 7 other…
It’s Bluebonnet season once again! I love Bluebonnet season. Also, I will never have a nice yard because I let the bluebonnets have it. It’s beautiful while they are blooming, but once they start going to seed… And I always let them go to seed… It looks awful. Well, it looks awful if you are…
As some of you may know, this last weekend I hosted a tea party open studio. It was such a blast, both getting ready for it as well as the event itself. One fun thing was to promise to paint a piece specifically for the tea party and give the guests the privilege of the…
When I showed this painting of her garden shed to my mom, she remarked, “that’s how I always WANTED it to look.” Which is a slightly bittersweet comment. But what a joy and honor to immortalize it in the way she wanted it to look! This is one reason I love painting! Photography can’t do…
A new Merry HeART Meditations is up on YouTube! It tells a bit of my story and the story of one of my paintings. Subscribe to Blog via Email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 7 other subscribers Email Address Subscribe
This is Miles. When I asked his owner to tell me a little about him, she wrote: We always call him “poor Miles” because he just ambles around looking like he’s not sure what’s going on… He’s really sweet… And lazy. He tries to keep up with our other two puppies, but normally ends up…
Grounded in comforting sunshine, weighed down with the heavy metal poisoning of a toxic world. Yet here the wind of the Spirit whispers, breathing through simple white blooms, “so even springs beauty from taint of toxin by the hand of our good God,” and away wafts the crumbled heart-lead as does the reborn caterpillar. These…
Why do I love painting flowers so much? They say that… Art and love are the same thing; It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. ~~Chuck Klosterman So somehow I think I see either what I am, or what I wish to be, in flowers. This one was glowing, even…
A couple of years ago, I had one of those dreams you have when you’re half awake. This wasn’t it. I did try to paint what I saw, but it never communicated the idea. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to try the concept again but in a different context–and it was so fun!…