On this Palm Sunday, may you feel encouragement for the week ahead and the hope that Easter and spring instills. Today we put down an offer on a house- alongside at least six other competing offers! We don’t know how things will go for us, but we are expectant and…
I finished the final taping segment for my Easter show today! When the video is finished I will launch the show, giving you time to share it with family and friends ahead of (and on) Easter weekend. I hope you will find the show entertaining and joyful, yet powerful and…
I’ve used this same painting for a very similar blog post called “Letting Go”. In that post I said these wise words “We may not have control over time, and future events, but we always have a spiritual choice about how we respond to change.” Ha! I better take my…
It’s that time of year again – I’m working on the new Easter Show 2022. The above painting was for my first holiday show, Easter 2020. Since then I’ve done several shows, including last year’s Easter Show 2021 (below): This year’s Easter 2022 Show painting is planned, the songs are…
This oil painting “Easter Sunday with Grandma” is featured in the book “50 Oil Paintings Inspired by Nature” and is also a live painting show event for the Easter Show 2021. The story that inspired this painting is narrated in the Easter Show. Enjoy Natalie’s art on fun, creative, and…
When artists paint a diary of their lives, their work may be recognized globally, regionally, or locally. “Flag at Tybee Island” is a famous icon, as it is displayed on the only road to or from Tybee Island, Georgia. Tybee’s beaches attract tourists worldwide, and because the Internet brings every…
This type of flower is known as “resurrection lily”, Lycoris squamigera. Excerpt from book “Faith: 25 Oil Paintings by Artist Natalie Buske Thomas”: Oil painting “Cross and Lily” by artist Natalie Buske Thomas
I painted this series of three paintings for an Easter show that I filmed. I was singing hymns and painting the Holy Trinity across three panels. The most significant promise of Life after Death in the Christian faith is the Trinity. The first panel represents “The Father”, as depicted by…
“There’s a big Irish community in Savannah, as many Irish immigrants settled here. Savannah has one of the largest St. Patrick’s Day parades in the world, second only to New York City. I attended a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Cork, and it was ironically much smaller than the parade…
“Lent is about giving something up, and adding something new. I mentioned earlier about learning something new, during our Easter experiences at our new Southern church, and it’s all about ‘new’. I’d been focused on Lent being about the past- repenting, letting go, pledging to change. What I hadn’t spent…