Bird Series

 Goldfinch

8" x 8"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

 Bluebird

8" x 8"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

 Chickadee Love

12" x 12"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

 Bluejay

8" x 8"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Robin No. 2

8" x 8"

Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

As Spring is hopefully approaching, I have been working on a series of birds. I hear the birds every morning as they are building nests and laying eggs! It brings such hope and excitement as new life begins all around. All of the paintings above will be available at Panoply in Huntsville, April 25 - 27 at Big Spring Park. Hope you will all come out!

Peace and Patience

Our pastor (Jean Larroux) has been teaching on "The Fruit of the Spirit" for the past few weeks. It has been so great to hear his wisdom and insight on Love, Joy and now Peace and Patience. In summary I have learned that the fruit produced by the Spirit is not generated by the hard work of keeping the law but by the harder work of believing the Gospel! I am not a naturally peaceful or patient person, but you know what, neither is anyone else! Our hearts do not naturally produce peace or patience because our hearts naturally love ourselves more than others. This is why we must always rely on Jesus alone to produce peace and patience in our hearts and love others with the peace and patience that none of us deserves! This is what I learned this week and here is what I painted this week. ( At least the ones I am willing to show you! ) The others need a little bit of PATIENCE on my part!

Church on a Hill

16 x 12

Acrylic on Canvas

SOLD

Girl Talk

12 x 12

Mixed Media on Canvas

Painting Again....Finally!

After a detour from painting for a short time I  am enthusiastically painting again! I am so happy to be back in my element with all my paints, brushes, mediums and other painting paraphernalia surrounding me, and ummm on me! I have completed several pieces and have picked up a bird theme. I have always loved birds and nests and when the birds recently started showing up on my back porch to build their nests for Spring I just had to start painting and I knew they would be my muse! I look forward to posting my newest paintings here and hope to hear from you about what you think! 

12 x 12

Acrylic on Canvas

"Hope"

14 x 14

Acrylic on Canvas

"Psalm 91"

 Sold

12 x 12

Acrylic on Canvas

"Bind My Heart"

14x14

Acrylic on Canvas

"Safe"

14x14

Acrylic on Canvas

"Friends"

 Sold

11 x 14

Acrylic on Canvas

"Rest"

New Bird Painting

"Set Free" - $40

8x16 oil on canvas

I just finished this painting and it was inspired by one of my favorite Christian music artists, Derek Webb. I absolutely love his CD entitled "She must and shall go free" and I listen to it over and over again. I love the symbolism of being set free from all the "junk" that keeps us from living the way Christ intends for us to live. Christ has given us freedom from sin, guilt, shame and fear but so often we forget that and live as if we are still bound by those things. I hope you enjoy this painting as much as I enjoyed painting it!