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"

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11 x 14

Acrylic on Canvas

"Rest"

Jones Valley

36 x 62

oil on canvas

Jones Farm II

This is a HUGE landscape I just finished for a commission. This was life changing. First of all, I had never stretched a canvas before. Done! It was a challenge to stretch one so large, but I did it! Then just covering that much space was a challenge but it was so much fun! And I think I took at least 1000 pictures of Jones Valley in the process! So I have lots of painting material. I have actually done 3 paintings of this scene. I have one more shown below and am still tweaking the other one. I hope you all enjoy it.

24 x 36

Jones Farm I

I actually painted this one first in preparation for the HUGE one! I changed some of the composition for the large just because it was so large. But I had fun with this one too. They had actually just baled the hay while I was painting these so I really wanted to include some of the hay bales because they looked so pretty out there.

20 x 16

oil on canvas

Family Tree

This was actually done as a graduation gift but it was so fun to do that I thought I would post it. Hope you enjoy looking!

Another Nest

Lover of Soft Winged Things - Sold

10x10 oil on canvas

Yes it is another nest and I am sure there will be more to come. I love nests, eggs and birds so naturally I like to paint them too. I love the speckled eggs particularly and they were really fun to paint. I like to think of the nest as our home here on earth and the eggs as us in our human form, waiting for God to make us into who He created us to be in our heavenly bodies. Kind of like "The Now and the Not Yet". I hope you enjoy this.

The Nest

"Feels Like Home" - Sold

10x10 oil on canvas

If you see a bird theme emerging, I think that is true. I keep coming back to birds, nests and eggs in my painting. I love all the colors and shapes as well as the spiritual ties birds and eggs represent. I will talk more about that later.