Video: Creative Edge Artist Network-the role of the arts pastor

Getting better thank God the Father through Jesus by the Holy Spirit. Below is a link to a great challenge and encouragement to the artist who is a Christian. A little more than 5 mins of your time is well worth it for the message it brings from "Creative Edge Artist Network". Hope you take that 5 mins

http://thegrovecenter.ning.com/video/the-role-of-the-arts-pastor

and enjoy!

Map to my home & studio

Drew only a map to my house today, not very interesting but functional. Spent 3o mins or more looking for misplaced photos of my models for my challenge quilt I am designing and making, all that time praying I would be able to find them, thank God I found them! I hung up the quilt top so I can begin the fabric crayon drawing when I get the time to get up to the studio. I have trouble with my sleep and wake schedule so I loose a lot of time just dealing with not having time to do what needs doing and what I want to do. I want to have what needs doing become wants and what wants to be done to become needs. Does that make sense? HA!

Art House Paintings

Responsibility
Bowie
Bombard
Container
Blast


Art House paintings are 3" x 3" They were quite the challenge. They came out a little too cartoony for me but it was an interesting learning experience.

Drawing Challenge for Drawing Day '09

This is my Drawing Day Challenge drawing for June 6, 2009. I used my granddaughter's photo as a model, I made the chin way longer than it should be but I like how it turned out. It was fun, took me about 40 mins. This week's Drawing Challenge is in support of Drawing Day 09
http://drawingday.org/

Challenge landscape

This is my painting for the Different Strokes from Different Folks Challenge. I did this one using water based oils. Not sure I really like using them but they are ok to play with.

New painting series: "Quilter's Hands"

Finished these paintings over the last 2 weeks. I have more to paint in this series but I have some other painting projects I want to finish first and possibly use a different medium in the next part of the series. These 2 I used Acrylic under painting, oil bar Paint sticks and some color pencil. The second picture does not show the teal color in the clothing and I couldn't get my scanner program to get it correct unless it changed all the other colors. The quilt color in the 2nd painting is, also, more purple than blue, again scanner program could not get it correct. But at least it does show what I've partly been up to recently. These 2 paintings are schedules as gifts.

Virtual Sketch date painting:flowers

Here is my entry for the Virtual Sketch date for April. Used Oil bars and had fun playing with it. Decided to shift the flowers over to the left instead of in the center like the photo model. Below is the photo model. Virtual Sketch Date address: http://virtualsketchdate.blogspot.com/ to see all the other entries and to join in.
I would love to be able to paint flowers as vividly as the photos, I have problems with the translucent quality of flowers. Anyway it was fun and a good exercise to get back into painting after a long break.