This is the painting I finished yesterday. Thanksgiving is coming up fast. Beyond a special meal that features a roast turkey, those of us who celebrate this holiday typically use this time to reflect upon our blessings, express gratitude, and gather with family.
“Thanksgiving” 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,…
Watch this oil painting come to life in under 2 minutes (time lapse) In June, I talked about this painting in a blog post called “Solitary Roses“. The part of that post I’d like to highlight today is this: “It’s healthy for brains to occasionally build garden walls, where we…
Watch this oil painting “Prayer of Praise” come to life in 2 minutes (time lapse) It may be hard to feel like this today, a joyful prayerful state of praise. But when we don’t feel joy, be thankful anyway. “Be”, as in the verb, the willful, mindful choice “to be”,…
https://nataliebuskethomas.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/oil-painting-peach-pie-by-natalie-buske-thomas.mp4 Watch this oil painting of peach pie come to life in about a minute (time lapse) When we tried the peach pie it was something different and new for us, that first year after we moved to the deep South in Georgia. This week, for my husband’s birthday (he…