Thinking about Art- Style

This is my first post of the New Year. Trying for consistency this year. Even if I dont have anything "profound" to say at least I can put up some art.

I joined a group called CAPI http://www.milliande.com/capi-create-art-portfolio-ideas.html 

The group is open to everyone so if you want to lay down some good art roots and habits check it out. It is free and uses supplies you already have.

Our first journal topic was related to Artist Style/ Signature and what is it and why do I want it? More on that in another post.

I journaled my more serious thoughts for a full page but this little idea keep singing to me in the background. When the odd side of my brain wants to say something I am compelled to go there....

So here is my little poem and art work for STYLE

made on my ipad

Advent art 10 LOVE- He Gathers Us

made on my ipad

 Matt 2 1-2 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem village, Judah territory— this was during Herod’s kingship—a band of scholars arrived in Jerusalem from the East. They asked around, “Where can we find and pay homage to the newborn King of the Jews? We observed a star in the eastern sky that signaled his birth. We’re on pilgrimage to worship him.”





God makes no distinction among us. He invited the Wise and wealthy as well as the poor and uneducated , people across the planet have been invited to gather and worship Him.

Advent Art 9-JOY: A never ending supply

ipad art

With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation- Isaiah 12:2-6


We live in a culture that runs a hundred miles an hour toward finding pleasure and happiness. When at last we"get there" we usually find the party's moved on or it wasnt as satisfying as hoped.

Then we're left with fatigue, disappointment, depression or maybe just try a little harder next time. This Season especially brings up our discontentment as we watch everyone else living the "dream".

This is the Season for rejoicing but how can we do that if were not happy?
We cant.
Happiness is dependent on our circumstances, our mood and emotions.
Rejoicing isnt a mood but an action we choose.

How wonderful that there is a well that never runs out of the power to give us joy. Night and day, in good or bad moments, when happy or depressed the well of JOY is always overflowing for us to draw from.

Advent Art 7- Joy: Even when Im on Overload

ipad art

This Season is so bright. The signs and trees and street decorations can be blinding. In fact I go on sensory overload for most of the holiday.

Then Isaiah reminds me that the world is overloaded-
 By misery, lack of water and dry and empty places in the soul.
The beauty of this promise for life in the vast wastelands of our hearts is as important and needed today as it was 2000 years ago

  " For the water shall break forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert, the burning sands will pool and the thirsty ground springs of water"- Isaiah 35