My brother Chas wrote a song called healer and sent the music to me so I could write some lyrics for it. I love doing that and we enjoy the collaborative effort.

This song is basically about how a person is born into this world, pure and light and full of hope and wonder and then as time goes by they become a little jaded because of the sin and darkness that are here on Earth. They make some bad choices and are influenced by some of the wrong things and some of their beauty fades as well as the memories of spiritual things.  The great thing though is the Savior knew this would happen to all of us and He’s there to fix everything really. We can become clean and healed and beautiful again with His help. He loves us more than we can comprehend. Here are the words I wrote. (more…)

Through the amazing world of the internet, I met a fascinating person yesterday.  I recieved an email from an author with Covenant books named Krista Lynne Jensen who is working on a project called Remnant. It’s a post-Book of Mormon novel in 2 books. The project sounds fascinating and I’m excited to read it when it’s finished. I went to her site and her writing is wonderful! Anyway, the reason she emailed me was to ask permission to use one of my paintings on her website. I was delighted and flattered and of course told her yes. Then I went to her site and found that she is an artist herself. Her medium is the written word. She paints with words and she does it well. I think her writing is elegant and her site is gorgeous. She even has a great playlist. I may add some of her song choices to mine.   She is using The One Who Remembers as an image to post along with a teaser for the book on her website. You can see The One Who Remembers proudly representing a character named Limhi, a remnant of the faithful by going to her site: kristalynnejensen.blogspot.com

My husband and I are working on a collaborative project. When he takes a photo that inspires me I do a painting of it. The last 2 peices that I blogged about were part of this project as well as 2 others that I blogged about in the past.  I thought you might like to see the photos next to the paintings. We’re going to present our idea to galleries and see what they think. It’s a cool idea because the photos are art in and of themselves and the drawings are art in and of themselves. When you see them side by side you see the beauty and uniqueness of each piece and each style of art. They compliment each other and together become a new and original form of art. So here you go. The photos next to the drawings. 

Last autumn my husband and I were enjoying a beautiful day in the warm sun and noticed a whole bunch of bumblebees dancing around on some flowers. Of course we had our cameras with us and this is one that he photographed. I decided yesterday to draw it and this is a close up of the finished piece.

I think that often we overlook some of the most beautiful of Heavenly Father’s creations simply because they are small. There’s so much to see on this great big planet that sometimes we forget to look down. A whole world of beauty exists just outside our normal range of vision.