Beautiful Light Blog
Layers and layers of watercolor. The watercolor brought the pencils lines to life by communicating shadow, depth, tone…mood.
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Sometimes making the time and space to explore begins with curiosity, "I wonder how you use these things...", is enough to launch the answer through exploration.
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From the time she understood that he was her older brother, she began looking out for him. Which seemed strange to me, because she was younger. In return, he always wanted her to play with him. Acc...
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It wasn’t until I was two years into an unhealthy marriage (some 10 years after college) that He got my full attention and whole heart. Desperate for peace and to know God’s love, I began to read w...
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Therefore when we’re crumbling creatively under the weight of fear and expectation, we have already taken on too much that was never ours to carry.
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Well...I Shut My Mouth and Painted
Creating from a mindset not hijacked by perfection and doubt invites a freedom that (ironically) yields beautiful and intentional work.
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So here I was...in the middle of a divorce, laid off from my job, and at the start of a pandemic. I probably should have been under my bed drinking, lol, but I was not.
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What it looks like. Peace, that is. Imagine you see a beautiful bird in nature, calm and still, with its gaze focused outward. Zoom out. You now see that the bird is perched confidently on a tree b...
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The same easy acceptance came with my transition from being a designer to an artist. There was no fanfare or major announcement, I just began painting; the practice felt natural and the response wa...
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