Five minute abstract
Well...maybe not exactly five minutes, but close to it. I was itchin' to get my fingers into the paint today, but figured I only had a few minutes before my hubby came downstairs from his shower to do it. So, I squeezed some random colors on my canvas, rubbed 'em around with my fingers, then dragged a squeege through the wet paint this way and that....and ta-da! A quick, easy background to build upon later when inspiration strikes. I was sick with an icky summer cold earlier this week and it pretty much zapped all my energy, creative and otherwise. Think I'm gonna try to sneak back into the studio tonight and try out my squeege again. :D What new tools are you playing with right now? I'd love to hear about the results. Leave me link too if you got 'em.
xoxo
Painting workshops now on DVD
hey y'all! i know i haven't posted for like over a month now....i was sick so much this past winter that it caused there to be too much to catch up on around here. then of course i got so behind at school with the kiddos. there were many lessons that i wasn't able to do with them because we just ran out of time. we mainly just focused on drawing and clay for the last two months....both of which i think were their favorites. :) i did manage to get a few pics of some of the clay projects they did and hopefully will get them posted here soon. and now on to the original reason why i logged on here today....after many requests for me to put my previous online workshops on dvd for people who never had a chance to take the class when it was run live, i decided i needed to figure out a way to do it. so now, you have the opportunity to buy the entire set of videos from my online classes on a data dvd. they will come complete with a hard dvd case (like movies come in) with a professional full color cover (see front cover pics below) and data dvd with a full color label. See my e-classes page for all the details and to purchase one (or both).
Our gift
"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God." ~Elenor Powell
God is so creative! Look around at the splendorous world around you. He created this amazing world that we all have this tendency to take for granted. We fail to see the beauty in the everyday things surrounding us.
We get too busy with our daily lives and forget to take in the astounding beauty he created just for us! We too have this creative ability. We were made in God's image, right? So we too are creative....each and every one of us! God gifted each one of us with creative abilities....some of us are creative in the way we decorate our homes, the way we solve problems, or the way we communicate.
Some of us are gifted with the ability to engineer or design amazing creations like bridges....
or buildings....
Me, I was gifted with the ability to paint.
And these are my tools.
God put this desire in my heart to paint and eventually I could no longer deny it. For denying it was like telling God I wasn't worthy of this gift He had given me. It was like refusing it. But by using this gift He so graciously has given me, I bring honor to His choice.....glory to His name. For He uses this gift to reach out to not only me, but to others. I am His vessel and I can choose to honor Him by doing what He has called me to do....or I can choose to put it off, make excuses, and not honor His choice to give me this gift.
What gift has God given you? What desire has he placed in your heart? He placed that desire there for a reason. To motivate you to do what He has called you to do. He is that still, small voice that won't let you ignore it. He whispers to your heart....fans the desire. Don't ignore it....for in doing so, you choose to not honor your purpose....your God given purpose.
I've chosen to honor Him.
What will you choose?
