Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

new art called Ancient Home

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

This one still needs to be trimmed on the left hand side cuz kittens nibbled the corner. Hahaha!

Changing and growing as an artist

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

I don’t know whether or not any of you have noticed but lately my art has been changing. I’m not as concerned about how ‘realistic’ a painting is anymore. I’m much more interested in expressing myself creatively and sharing the way I feel about life and beauty. I want my paintings to flow with emotion and color. I want to drink deeply of the beauty that surrounds me and then create my own unique beauty that hopefully others will drink deeply of. I want my paintings to have a life of there own, not just look ‘real’. I kind of feel like I’m on an artistic journey. That sounds all dramatic, I know, but I love journeys and I constantly want to better myself and that includes (but isn’t at all limited to) my art.

painting of a hawk

Monday, April 12th, 2010

I call this one Spirit Hawk. I’ve always felt a special connection to hawks. Often when I’m out running hawks fly over me just ahead of me on the trail. I get to follow them for a minute and I love it. It almost feels like I’m flying with them. I wanted to portray that emotion in this painting.

Fire Horses

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Before the Dance

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Dance of the Undine

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

I love fantasy. I like stories that capture the imagination and make us question the limits of our reality. After all, reality is only what we percieve it to be. Here is my latest fantasy painting. It’s called dance of the undine. An undine is a water fairy-like creature from European folklore.

A song called Healer

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

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…)

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

I believe art is a journey, an exploration of ourselves and the world that we experience. It’s a way to express ourselves and discover ourselves at the same time. Lately I am fascinated with the idea of combining that which I experience in the real world with that which I imagine my feelings to look like in order to share my feelings about certain things with others. I hope that you can see through this painting that I have a passion for native cultures and the beauty of dance and rhythm. In fact it’s actually an expression of my passion for life in general. Every day feels like a dance to me, a celebration of color and light.

The flutterby

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

drawing of a little bumblebee

Monday, February 1st, 2010

close up of bumble beeLast 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.

Featured Artwork
Transitory Beauty
In The Green Summer Meadow
The First Journey
Seeking The Light
Shawl Dancer
Before The Dance
Little Dancing Boy
Rainbow Dancer
Eagle Dancer
Morning Prayer
His Prayer
Purple Ride
Searching for the Sun
Ancient Home
Daughter of the Sky
As Still as the Wind
Solo Journey
The One Who Remembers
Lamanite Woman
Dance Of The Undine
Spider Fairy
Under The Hunters Moon
Elf Queen
Elf Portrait
Treefairy
Everybody Needs a Hug
Blue Wolf
Fire Horses
Spirit Hawk
Saphire Sunset
The Horse
Horse in the Wind
White Stallion
Brown Horse
Little Red Squirrel
Lion in Training
The Raven
Snowfox
Silence and Light
Listening to the Wind
Father Abraham
Father Issac
Wishing
Life is Good
The Soldiers Father
Behold Your Little Ones
The Whisper
Praire Fire
Frosty Sunset