Latest oil painting (birds in our holly tree), from the 2022 Christmas painting and variety show. If you missed it: Watch free now. Here we are, another year gone. Wishing you a joyful 2023, with hope and faith that blessings will come to you and your family. Happy New Year!…
Enjoy my oil paintings that feature God’s wonderful creatures. See these come to life in 2 minutes (time lapse). Click & go! And many more: See more art in these categories: “Faith“, “Food, Fun & Flowers“, and “People & Places“ Enjoy Natalie’s art on fun, creative, and classy gifts for…
“Osprey” is part of the 2022 collection “Seasons” (of life and nature). Paintings in this collection celebrate seasons of life (metaphorical, representational, or inspired-by-real-life scenes about milestones, rites of passage, and shared human experiences of love, aging, family, and beyond) as well as seasons of nature (literal scenes depicting autumn,…
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 our “old” cardinal friends, my family was amused because they thought that any cardinal is the same as another, and surely there will be other…
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 after dinner, but now my berries are gone. I’ll have to use netting in the future. Maybe when we move my strawberry plant (in a…
This oil painting was inspired by Psalm 36: 5-7 “Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies… You, Lord, preserve both people & animals…. People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.” Sometimes I go looking for inspiration by trolling through my memories, searching for…
Sharing one of the presents from each family member of this theme: the nature that I love and share with you all here, through my oil paintings and stories. The above video shows the gifts my husband and oldest daughter gave me for my garden and the images below show…
First, do you remember this one? Watch my oil painting of geese come to life in just over 1 minute (time lapse). And now, I’ll explain the gift that came to me this afternoon (relating to geese!), and I’ll share my gift with YOU. Yesterday I talked about how I…
Watch this raccoon painting come to life in under 2 minutes (time lapse) Our experiences with nature are often wonderful, sometimes mysterious, and occasionally pure joy. But other times dangerous, destructive, or annoying. Our experiences with raccoons have been frustrating, but not as frustrating as our encounters with squirrels. I…
https://nataliebuskethomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/oil-painting-blue-heron-by-natalie-buske-thomas.mp4 Watch me paint “Blue Heron” in under 1 minute (time lapse) He’s back! If you’ve been following me for a while, you might remember this story: “Astrikingly beautiful blue heron appeared at the lagoon one day. I quickly took its picture to paint later. This is a different style…