The latest GHOP paintings

Moon ~ Pink Sunset
January 2009
Acrylic on canvas
11 x 14

Held by Private Collection

Eye in the Sky
December 2008

Acrylic on canvas board
9 x 12

For Sale
$75

Paint your county parks 2006

This took several days at Hideaway Harbor, Portage des Sioux.

The couple came one day and sat on the bench before they went to pick pecans!

This is out at Klondike Park in Augusta.

It was a quarry at one time, now it is just beautiful.

Orbs

Prophetic painting of orbs.

Augusta Plein Air 2008

Flowering Plum

16" x 20" Acrylic on canvas

Sold

Paper White

24" x 36" Acrylic on canvas

White butterfy

Grapes on Glass

Stained Glass Paint ~ My front door

Stained Glass Window

Stained glass paint

Stained Glass Window at DC

Stained glass paint

The "leading" is actually a grey material with a sticky back that you apply much like very thin tape strips. Once it is on the glass as an outline you paint the colors in.

It is on the cry room window at this church, so you cannot see in.

Table & Sign

"His banner over me is Love" Song of Songs 4:2

Acrylic on table top with clear polyurethane

Scrapbook paper, tissue and dried flower petals on foam core.

Fire of Holy Spirit

Dyed Silk Scarves

These are worship flags made of "painted" silk that I made specifically for this wall display. They are six feet long. Beautiful. They served a double purpose, after displayed for a time, I turned them into worship flags.

I made several others in other colors.

This is one of my favorites still on the stretcher:

Here are another...

Backdrop for Teens for Christ Camp

So then, once people know you paint, they ask for fun stuff. The first backdrop I painted for DC was a graveyard that went with a sermon series. The second was a wall of graffiti, very cool, done in spray paint on the back side of the masonite from the graveyard also for a sermon series.

This backdrop was acrylic on masonite boards. It was fun and served for a play the teens were putting on at a summer camp.

Isn't it amazing that the original canvas for Waterlilies by Claude Monet was bigger than these.
Imagine painting that mural in your own gardens, how Fabulous.

Isaiah "Dry" & "Growing"

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Each of these were painted based on a scripture from Isaiah,
they are of the same location, painted in two different prophetic seasons.


The title alone is a prophetic picture of my life.

Interpretation of "Death to Life"

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Tree at Shiloh

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

I went to Kansas City to House of Prayer and sat at the side of the lake at the end of Cleveland road (where they planned to build Shiloh Estates) and painted this gorgous tree with a red vine. I never finished it. I had a class/conference to be at that weekend and it rained all during the rest of my free time. This was October 2002.

Window Tree

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

This tree was out the office window at our house on Country Life. It was painted during winter of 2001.

"en plein air" Pond May 2002

en plein air pond 2002
16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Held in Private Collection

Before I knew what en plein air painting was, I went over to my friend's house and sat out by her small lake and painted in the gorgeous heat of the day. I did this over a few days and it was wonderful. I had the headphones on and sang loudly while I painted. Though not my best piece, it has some great things going on. I do did finishing touches on the far grass and by the canoe in the studio... so it is not completely "en plein air".


Then in 2005 I went into the studio and did this from early spring photos of the same pond, different angle. Note there is not algae covering the pond at this time.

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Portage des Sioux

16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas

Encouraged by my DH, I drove one summer day led simply by that still small voice to this point on the river out at Portage des Sioux. A large tornado had hit the week before and almost destroyed the little marina I was sitting in, but I had the best view of this little leg and this awesome tree. I was sitting in among twisted metal and debris, fighting off the biting flies.

It was my first en plein air.

It was early summer in 2002.

It took a few days to finish. DH even came out one day and played guitar while I painted.

Burning Bush

I did this in fall of 2001. It was the first thing I had painted since the Eagle and an unfinished and longtime lost self portrait. It isn't even on a canvas, rather a large piece of foam-core board.

This still hangs during the holidays...

This hangs on the walls of Discovery Church in Saint Peters from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

I painted it when I was ~6 weeks pregnant with M. They were afraid I would fall off the scaffolding so they conveniently rented a lift for some other project and let me use it for about 2 weeks. It was too cool and too fun. I had never done anything this large before and it was a challenge and a joy.

They took these pictures the day I finished... and I am so glad to have them as a memory.

All that is left is this photo...

I painted this eagle from a picture... I don't remember but I think it was my impression of a magazine picture... It was many years ago and the canvas is surely destroyed but definitely lost now. It was painted in the early 1990's.

Welcome...

A blog is a great place to visit. This blog was originally intended to "catch" my random thoughts... but as it turns out... it is a better place to catch my painting adventures.

Enjoy... I will be posting old paintings first, then as I head into a more weekly painting blog and head toward "daily" painting... more and more works will be posted here.

~order my steps Lord, I am but clay in your hands ~