Exciting News!

I have been hard at work building a website!  Whew!  Almost at the finish line.  I will be launching it in just a day or two.   It will be so nice to have all my artwork, or most of it, in one place to show when trying
to do a booth at a show, or submit an application for a gallery spot etc..  So, I will post the website info here just as soon as I get it published. 
Happy Monday!!

It's March and Spring is around the corner!  Yay!  I love Spring.  Thought I'd share a painting I finished recently.   The colors remind me of Spring. 

Looks like it's going to take a while to get in the habit of blogging frequently.  I'm going to be better....I am!!
 It's time to go forward with my Art business, so I'm building a web site.  It's SO time consuming, especially when you don't know what you're doing.  So, hopefully it will all come together and be wonderful.  How's that for positive thinking? 
Happy Tuesday!
Blessings,
Terri

I'm back!!

After a very LOOOONNNNGGG break, I am back to blogging.  I hope to keep it up this time.
Life just seems to get in the way sometime.  :-)  

Lots of new artwork to post and talk about.  I'll start with the commissioned piece I did in the
fall of last year.  This was for a customer who wanted a very personal piece, with places visited in
Texas, as well as the log cabin they live in represented.  The path of their travels is depicted with pieces of rolled Texas map.  There is barbed wire, scrabble tiles, raised letters (for Texas), seashells they collected,
and many other things found in the Lone star state.  This was a challenging and rewarding piece to do.  Trying to put all the elements requested into a painting with an interesting composition took time and lots of trial and error. :-)  

Transition time

For those who have had a new member added to your family, you know that there are challenges with the blessings as you adjust to another person in your house.  It might be a new spouse, step-children, a new baby, an elderly parent, or even a new puppy, that can bring new challenges.   There's always a transition time, where your life it's quite the same as it was prior to that person coming to your home.  In our case, it's a foster child and a new puppy.  Actually, the puppy doesn't change our schedule and all much, but he is a challenge, that's for sure. :-) Bringing a child that's been in foster care and has trauma issues, is a little added
stress to the mix.  Even though you are so excited to have a new child, working with them through fear, anxiety, behavior issues and all is not.   So, needless to say, my painting days have been few; my alone time, scarce; my desire to get away hightened. :-)   It's a time to walk closely with the Lord to know what to
do when your new child is going through some fear, a time of grief, or just shuts down for no apparent reason.  Help Lord!

Downpour of blessings

This new painting is called "Downpour of blessings".   My husband and I have been trying to adopt another child for about five years.  We now have a very promising opportunity with the foster child we now have in our home.  Because God is really blessing things in our life right now, it has inspired me to paint this new piece. This painting is quite a bit different than most I do, even though it has a lot of texture, which is a common element in my paintings. 

Workshop

Saturday was my first "real" workshop to teach.  I've only taught a class
for children before.  This workshop was so much fun for me and I can't
wait to do another one.  I think everyone had a good time as well, or so they said.

 

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The BIG day is almost here!

Tomorrow is the BIG day!  We get the four year old little girl to join our family.  Hopefully, it
will be forever.  I have to say that we had two children placed in our home a year ago and
it was a bit of a nightmare.  So, I've been a bit gun shy this time knowing a lot more clearly what
we've signed up for than I did in the past.  I am getting excited.  We've seen her twice now and I
think that will help in making the transition a little easier. 

On a different note, here's the painting I finally finished after posting previously the beginning stages.

It's from Psalms 1: 1-3.  I love this verse and had a lot of fun making this tree.