See oil painting “Dancer in a Floral Forest” come to life
in 2 minutes (time lapse)
I painted this as an imaginary landscape, but it turns out that those red flowers are real, and I may soon have one in my possession! The flower looks remarkably like it to me, anyway. My daughter took a photo of a red flower that looks very similar to these red ones I painted and said that she always sees hummingbirds near those flowers on campus. Later, she texted that there will soon be a plant sale on campus. So we’re hoping that they’ll be selling those red flowers!
If not, we’ll track down where to buy them, and eventually we’ll have new red flowers for the hummingbirds. I love it when there’s a new surprise quest to find an elusive (elusive to me, the flower doesn’t seem uncommon for this area) new nature treasure. Sometimes my paintings seem to foreshadow future events in ways that are quite mysterious. In this case, it’s just a simple red flower that becomes a joyful treasure hunt and special memory with my daughter, but it’s interesting nonetheless.
When I one day have this red flower, I’ll take a picture of it- hopefully with a hummingbird near it at the same time. Small quests give us something to look forward to. The more quests we accept, the more we are given. When we expect to be surprised by serendipity and joyful connections, we are!
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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
Easy Going
This painting was a “free paint” project, in which there is no reference, plan, or agenda other than to let the paints flow. I start
Joyful Memories!
Moving is so hard and bittersweet. The passage of time is on display with every box that is packed, every room that is emptied. Today
WOOT!
“Fred” was my dad’s nickname for me. This painting was inspired by a black and white photograph he took to complete an assignment for a
Wild Days
Ever feel that you live your life with reckless abandon, like these wild horses? What do they care about consequences or the worries of tomorrow?
aww
My daughter brought me one of the boxes she packed herself for our move, for me to load onto the POD container. She said it
Nature’s Music
This painting was an experiment. A talented indie composer shared his work online and I asked if I could use it to paint what I
Ooh, Pretty!
These flowers are probably the closest thing I have right now to what my new “Freedom Rose” looks like, but imagine the buds and open
LOL, Pumpkin
I planted a couple of pumpkins in grow bags and decided that I’d take those to the new house. Well, one of the pumpkins decided
Bearing Up
The PODS container was dropped off today. I spent hours packing the first round of our household, mostly by myself. I felt victorious, like this
Lead me HOME!
When I painted this city of Savannah oil painting, I had no idea that I’d one day live not very far from this fountain square.
Strawberry Mine!
Guess what’s ready to eat already? I had the most delicious vibrant red fresh strawberry with a bit of whipped cream, MMMM! But you know
Moving Soon!
Oil painting “Autumn Cottage”, time lapse video to watch Natalie paint this art, journey of move during housing crisis
Be Thou my Vision
I hope you are enjoying this Easter weekend with loved ones and are feeling peace in your spirit. I’ve uploaded the Easter Show 2022 in