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. 

Okay, I may be goofy but I really liked the way the sky looked in the photo that I took of the painting I just finnished so I went back and drew clouds in to make it look like the photo. I think it’s better now than it was before! Ha. Thank goodness for bad photography.

The sun reaches out with arms of light,

dazzling fingers of blinding white

that pierce the black of endless night

with the frenzied power of fiery might

and bends it’s will to His.

The rolling clouds of thundering grey

claw at the earth in stormy play,

bending trees that stand in their way,

spitting winds of sputtering rain

and bend their will to His.

The Earth trembles with rumbling quake

rolling and tossing for pleasure’s sake

for life is hers to give or take

from towering mountain to shimmering lake

she bends her will to His.

And here we stagger under minds of stone

seeking truth in man alone.

To whims and notions we lie prone

like leaves on the wind we are blown

and we bend our will to no one.

What is this, the pride of man

that filters in like grains of sand

unraveling truths strand by strand

till we are not but empty wasteland

we who will not bend our will?

life is more than we can see

through eyes of worldly frailty.

His guiding hand would set us free,

His glory bestow divinity

To those who would do His will

The world shimmers with beauty. The light of Christ sparkles in the rivers and flashes like diamonds in the new fallen snow. The wind whispers His truth in our ears and wraps us in His arms. The trees stretch their great branches to the sky in silent worship as the celestial light of the sun glimmers on dancing leaves reminding us of what we can become if only we have eyes to see.

These are some of my latest digitally altered photos. I really like the one of the fence with the sunset behind it. I actually did very little to alter that one. A car had just driven by on the road and it kicked up a lot of dust (the fence lines a dirt road). It looked so amazing in real life. The photo just couldn’t capture it but it looks pretty on it’s own.

I really love photography. It’s almost as fun as drawing, not quite but almost. It’s fun in it’s own way.

I like to go out and take pictures of any and everything that I see that looks cool or beautiful in some way. Then, after trying to get the best shots that I possibly can, I come home and put them on my computer and play with them in the Gimp. Sometimes I just alter them a little to make them a bit closer to what I saw when I took the photo. Other times, I really go nuts with them, making them totally unique and nothing like the original photo.

I really enjoy the entire process. Here are my latest creations.