The Lord is my Shepherd, I have everything I need. Ps. 23. Amazing thought!! God gives us fields and fields of plants and herbs. Maybe there should be more research into the healing properties of the natural resources on this earth. Just a thought.
I enjoyed doing this painting because I spent a lot more time on details. Usually I stop with a looser, more impressionistic style but this one called for what my students call my "2 hairs brush". I try to get my students to always use a bigger brush than what they are comfortable with however, I'll have to admit sometimes its just fun to tighten up.
Working out the compositions in black and white first is fascinating. Color is eye catching but value does the heavy lifting in paintings. If you get it right you create magic.
On the coldest day of the year, with a wind chill of -0, I am excited about a new show of Spring paintings coming soon to Black Dog Salvage and the Peaks of Otter. Can you feel the Sunlight?
After viewing #5 of the Series at the Peaks of Otter a friend commissioned this painting, similar but with a hiking trail . Thank you Beth Letz! Glad it has a good home!
Slowing Life down is important and I am speaking to myself now. I wish I had time to sit on one of these rocks and just think and sing and praise the Lord for what He has created!. I am teaching three days a week and painting full time! I love every minute of my life, but I will take a break from painting for the next two months to enjoy the holidays and start my Christmas shopping. It is good to refocus and prioritize life. However, my series is not finished !!!!....I still have 19 more painting in this series before I start thinking about another!
The Peaks of Otter is aways a delight to visit. This is a scene I did not paint from a photograph but from memories of the light and shadow and smell and warmth of sunlight. I am really enjoying taking the artistic license to recreate and compose with my paintings to capture the essense and not always the exact image.
