Summer Self Portrait = Meanderings While Sweating

I sit in the heat of summer with my familiar perspiration making my face glow. (If only the models would realize that sexy shine comes from SWEAT.) The windows are open this evening, fans pushing air through the house. I have come to love the heat of summer permeating the air of my home. I [...]

Artfest

Artfest caused yet another shift within me. Surrounded by such beauty and so many others who think in ways similar to me, I felt that if I did have a place I fit on this earth, I had found it. I have never felt more comfortable around so many people I’d just met. Just being [...]

Brave

ArtFest 2009

I did it. I sent in my registration for Artfest 2009 early Tuesday morning. I feel so brave.
And now, anticipation.
amanda ∞

Tender

This is the first page of my Moleskine. The concept for this page is from Sarah Whitmire at Caspiana and her Soul Journaling prompts. Written in sparkly gold gel pen over the green paint are the words:
This book contains TRUTH! If you are not ready to receive, this book is not for your eyes. No [...]

If I were a cat…

amanda ∞

Today I feel like this…

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Demons transformed

Yes, I read a stack of books at a time. I just got done with One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry. What an excellent book. I was inspired.

At the end of the book Lynda challenges the reader to draw their own demons. Although it was not intentional, while I was working on my art journal, [...]

Quirky things

Sheri shared some fun odd quirky things about herself, and has tagged me to share as well.
1.)  I always carry books with me where ever I go, just in case. Although I seldom have the opportunity to read while on the go, the moment I leave them behind, I regret it.
2.)  I don’t like holes in things. Once we [...]

Believe

The latest Salt challenge is the theme, Believe. The text is John 9 about a blind man whose sight was restored. His response, “Lord, I believe.”
This page is also a reflection of my own experience. When I was blind, my world was colorless, dark, lifeless. Now I feel the blood flowing, and although I can [...]

Snowed in

My husband told me I shouldn’t drive to church today. He left early in our 4-wheel drive vehicle to help with the worship band and slid much of the way there. Although the snow is not that thick yet, it rained first, and then froze before it snowed. Underneath the gentle, lovely blanket [...]

Under the sun!

Afternoon on a Hill
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
and not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
with quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
and the grass rise.
And when the lights begin to show
up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
and [...]

Outward

After much prayer and seeking this past month, God has given me a verse for 2008:
Hebrews 12:1-2 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that [...]

New Year’s Resolution

New year resolutions, I am not one to set them, but have found myself pondering and praying about God’s directions for me. This fall I spent extremely too much time on the computer. I am sure I wasted days. This is not what God has prepared for me. Last spring, God began stripping responsibilities and duties [...]

Seasonal affective disorder

I was thoroughly enjoying the art every day month challenge. As I awoke each day, I’d stay alert for inspiration for that day’s art. Yet, with no reason at all, I became extremely depressed. It was not the art. It was not my husband’s insane work schedule. It was not my children’s daily antics. I [...]

Art Every Day #5 – I am the Canvas

Today’s art is me:
I started with a base coat of gesso loose powder. My canvas seems to be extremely oily.

Next I apply my first layer, accenting the natural Swedish contour of the canvas.
Did I apply an even, concentric coat? Yes.
The next layer adds depth and subtle highlights.
Layer upon layer, it’s all good.
My dad always wanted [...]