The Fruits of Spring

People tell me you can look at my artwork and see what is going on in my life and I suppose that is true! When the flowers start blooming I paint them and when I travel I paint the places that I have been. I recently took a trip to Mooresville, Alabama with some friends and we visited 1818 Farms there. What a lovely place and fabulous people. I am sure I will be painting more from our adventures there.

The chickens there were some of my favorites, along with the goats and sheep ( coming soon).

Marsh Landscape
24 x 20
Acrylic on Canvas

Hydrangeas in Window
20 x 20
Acrylic on Canvas
SOLD

The Road Home
24 x 18
Acrylic on Canvas

Chicken Love
16 x 12
Acrylic on Canvas

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

Spring Break!

The week of Spring Break was a very productive time for me! Though the weather was less that cooperative I got in lots of quality painting time. I took a little venture back into some landscape work but still had to get in one nest painting since it was Easter week! Nests and eggs just have such symbolism in my life. Representing the safety we have in Christ and the hope of new life yet to come! I hope you all had a great Spring Break!

Barns

12x16

Acrylic on Canvas

Nest on Yellow

12x12

Acrylic on Canvas

Chapel

14x14

Acrylic on Canvas

Aqua Bike on Beach

12x16

Acrylic on Canvas

Wedding Part 2

"Her Wedding Pt. 2"

18" x 18"

Acrylic on Canvas

Well I decided to go big! The first painting was very small and I find it easier to paint big so I deemed this one worthy of a big canvas so here it is! Hope you like it, I will be adding some others I have done this week below. Thanks for looking!

5 Sheep Grazing

18" x 14'

Acrylic on Canvas
Sold

Church Steeple

16" x 12"

Acrylic on Canvas
Sold

Spring Break!

11 x 14 oil on canvas

Green Mountain Stream

It has been a great Spring Break for me! I spent 2 entire days outside taking pictures and finding new things to paint and this is one of them. This is a little stream that flows down Green Mountain and I took at least a million pictures of it. I just loved how all the bright green moss was growing all down the banks and up the trunk of the tree. I definitely had fun with this one! I also took many pictures of cows and sheep this week so you know what will be coming next! E-mail me if you are interested in this painting.

Jim Richards Workshop

This is Jim's Pallette, and yes he only uses 4 colors! I freaked out at first but after he demonstrated what he could accomplish with these 4 colors it actually makes things easier and the color harmony he achieves is amazing!

Jim working on his demo

Jim's nearly completed scene

My WIP 36 x 48!

This workshop was absolutely amazing! If any of you ever get the chance to take a class from him you should! He is a fantastic teacher and he spends lots of time explaining why he does the things he does. He explained alot about composition and why he placed certain things in his composition and not others. He also taught me alot about color values and color harmony. The biggest challenge for me was working on this huge canvas! It is sooooo big. The fumes in my car on the way home from Atlanta were really strong! I still have some work to do on this so I wasn't super concerned with the picture quality I posted, I know it is cropped poorly but I will post a better picture when the painting is complete. I took this class at "The Art School in Sandy Springs" and it was fabulous! Thanks Donna and Jim!