As happens occasionally, I have again painted “into the future”. This art is from nearly ten years ago. I painted it in response to government tyranny, relating to injustice I was personally facing. But, when viewed in light of 2020 and continuing to this date, some will likely assume other motivations and inspirations for why I painted this art “Let my People Go”, depicting New York City’s Statue of Liberty raising a staff like Moses to part the waves.
Are the people coming or going? The ambiguous figures make their intentions of arrival or departure unclear, made even more obscure by the grainy footage of the painting session (it was filmed with my an old camcorder, before I got an HD camera). The inadvertent vintage nature suits the art.
Art, once shared, doesn’t belong to me. I follow what it feels like I should paint. Sometimes I paint when I’m upset and those emotions provide empathy to others who are facing hardships. Our troubles don’t need to be from the same issue or from the same time period to cross over into shared human experience.
When my art becomes historically timely, it’s unnerving, yet inspiring as well. We are all connected to each other and are connected to our past and future selves as well. No generation stands alone.
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New Painting – “Alabama Landscape”
Oil painting by artist Natalie Buske Thomas “Alabama Landscape”. Watch Natalie paint this art in less than 2 minutes (time lapse video). New painting for September 2022.
New Painting Finished!
If you’ve been following the progress of my new oil painting “Walking in Rain Puddle”, you’ll be happy to know that it is now finished
Back to Work! Session 3
Well, it’s time to get back to work on the new painting in progress. Normally I wait until the painting is finished before sharing, but
Today’s Painting
LOL! It looks like my daughter (girl in the painting) is afraid of my fan brush in this still photo I lifted from the video!
New Painting in Progress
I don’t often show my paintings until they are done, but I thought you’d like to know what I’m working on since there’s been a
New Painting – “Lion in Storm”
Watch oil painting “Lion in Storm” come alive in under 1 minute (in the time lapse video above). This is an angry time. Many of
New month, new direction!
Did you click on the image above? I’ve painted enough art now to re-design this website and sort by categories! This will be more fun
New Painting – “Coffee Outside”
See my new painting “Coffee Outside” come alive in less than 2 minutes (time lapse video). This art is for the 2022 collection “50 Oil
New Painting – “Frog in Garden”
Watch this frog painting come alive in just over 1 minute (time lapse video) This project was inspired by my tree frog friend who would
Hymn for Cardinal Painting
As promised, I’ve put together a singing video with the lyrics for the instrumental hymn that was in yesterday’s painting video. Maybe you already know
New Painting – “Cardinal in July”
See my new cardinal oil painting “Cardinal in July” come alive in 2 minutes (time lapse video). I have lost track of how many cardinals
Go Light your World
This is the song that is featured in my oil painting “Candle and Bible” video. The music in the time lapse video is an instrumental
New Painting
See this oil painting come alive in about 1 minute (time lapse video). Note: if you read my blog via e-mail, my videos probably won’t
Hymn for Lighthouse Painting
The painting video I shared yesterday included a piano instrumental version of “In Christ Alone”. My daughter (standing behind my chair) was kind enough to
Happy 4th of July!
See this oil painting “Americana” come alive in 2 minutes (time lapse video), or view the longer version in the 4th of July show. This
New Painting – “Lighthouse”
The song in the video is a piano instrumental version of the hymn “In Christ Alone”. “In Christ Alone” In Christ alone my hope is
New Painting!
See this osprey come to life in 2 minutes (time lapse video). My new art area is now fully set up and I should be
Happy Father’s Day!
I’m finally working on a new painting. I’ll share it on Wednesday. My daily blog has fallen behind since our sudden, unexpected move. I’m still
New Painting, Finally!
I’m finally back to work after our big sudden, unexpected move. The move took wild turns and we ended up buying a house at least
Want to go to Church?
If you watched the above video (a clip from this year’s Easter Show), you saw how emotional I was while singing the cover of “I
New Art Journey
I’ve lost track of how many oil paintings I’ve done, but “over 200” is possibly right. My lifetime goal is over 1,000 finished oil paintings,
New Cardinal Friends
New birds have already found us at our new home. These cardinals are different, as I knew they’d be. When I was sad about leaving
I’m HOME!
All moved in and my Internet is up. Did you miss me? I missed you! I’ll catch up when I can. Just wanted to post
Moving Day!
This looks nothing like the house we’re closing on, but our house IS in Savannah. I had no idea when I painted this several years
MOVING TOMORROW!
WHEW! The issues are finally resolved and our delayed close on the house will happen TOMORROW! Tomorrow is moving day! I shall fly like this
S T R E S S E D
Today was a highly stressful day. We still haven’t closed on the house and we are now running out of time for the moving pods,
BAD DAY
Well, there must have been a bad moon a’rising because today was a horrible day. The close on our house was cancelled, and then thankfully
Super Laundry!
My son is college age now, not a little boy like in this art for children’s book “Grandpa Smiles” (about my dad, who died before
Happy Day!
Today we had the opportunity to bring the kids to the house we’ll be closing on. Until now, they’d only seen the pictures and video.
Bandits!
These birds have been coming around and stealing our strawberries! What a disappointment! I was enjoying a fresh berry with Cool Whip as a snack