Before the day begins—
I remind myself what is true:
that God loves me,
and that there is nothing I can do
in this new day
to earn more love—
nothing.
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| detail from work in progress 36 x 36", acrylic on canvas |
10 comments:
Welcome! What a wonderful surprise! Wow, Dotty is back teasing us with a snippet of some HUGE canvas! Love the texture!
For a minute I thought I was looking at real flowers. And what a JOY to see Dotty's flowers and the promise of more in my mailbox. Love the warm hug of Shauna's quote :) Hello Dotty! So HAPPY to see you :)
Yay!! Good to see you, my friend. I love the art, and I love the quote.
Carol, yup—I've come up to the surface and I'm poking about, blinking my eyes. I'm playing around a bit with a huge (for me) canvas that my Secret Santa gave me. One fun thing about the large size is that when I'm up close painting I lose all sense of the 'big picture' and just paint. Glad you're enjoy the texture here.
Sheila, I'm smiling at your thinking momentarily that you were looking at 'real' flowers (in my banner, I assume you mean)—what you're looking at is a rotated snippet of the tree I posted at the end of December, a tree set in snow, a tree that gave a nod to being a Christmas tree : )
Thank you for your warm joyful welcome as I surface here briefly.
Thanks, Laurie. Feels funny to be back in the light of day here at my blog, but it's fun to snap a photo of my current playing around on canvas, crop it to remove evidence of all the dark spots and the rust-colored threadlike blemish that my out-of-sorts camera phone insists on supplying to every photo, post, and touch base with my art friends. Glad you enjoyed the quotation; more coming.
Hi Dotty,
What a beautiful poem you quoted there! I am so curious to your big-canvas-experiences!
Simone, hello! More of the passage from Niequist will follow. If you are so curious about my big-canvas experiences, that makes two of us!
oooooooh it is good to see your name sneaking into my email in-box! Hooray! Love this poem...it is a message I needed to hear. How did you know? Intrigued by the size of your canvas, and desperately waiting to see the big reveal!!!
Jen, glad Niequist's words resonated with you—they jumped out at me.
Yeah, the size of my canvas: not my usual! I play with it as the spirit moves and circumstances allow. Not sure where to go next with it. Hoping it will tell me.
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