The Subject is Angels

It never ceases to amaze me how we express ourselves in art, in music and writing. That you can give a subject to one hundred different people and they will express that idea one hundred totally different ways. I find it absolutely fascinating and wonderful.

Love it, love it, love it!!!!

BEFOREAFTER

Inversion:

The view before and after.

(Hey, where have all the mountains gone?)

illustration by Daniel Merriam

If it isn't spring soon I will be forced to call out the flying monkeys.

There is beautiful artwork to express almost everything, need I say more.

If all of our troubles were hung on a line, you would take yours and I would take mine.

Swedish Proverb

" God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.".....or maybe January!

J.M.Barrie

Fear Less, Hope More,

Whine Less, Breathe More,

Talk Less, Say More,

Hate Less, Love More,

and all good things are yours.

Swedish Proverb

Today is the Twelfth Day of Christmas, you know the one with the drummers drumming for your true love. Anyway it is also know as the Night of Epiphany (revelation or revealing) when the Christ Child was presented to the Magi (Three Wise Men). In my case it is just an excuse to post another piece of beautiful art and remember the birth of our Lord. May we all have our own personal epiphany.

THE FROSTED PANE

When I wakened, very early,

All my window-pane was pearly

With a sparkling little picture

traced in lines of shining white;

Some magician with a gleaming

Frosty brush, while I was dreaming,

Must have come and by the starlight

worked through all the quiet night.

He had painted frosty people,

And a frosty church and steeple,

And a frosty bridge and river tumbling over frosty rocks;

Frosty mountain peaks that glimmered,

And fine frosty ferns that shimmered,

And a frosty little pasture full of frosty little flocks.

It was all touched in so lightly

And it glittered, oh, so whitely,

That I gazed and gazed in wonder at the lovely painted pane;

Then the sun rose high and higher

With his wand of golden fire Till, alas,

my picture vanished and I looked for it in vain!

by Evaleen Stein

January, icy, hard hearted, January, greeting us arms wide with a New Year, resolution and the promise of new beginnings.
Only to turn its back reminding us that redemption and change
are illusive as winter sun, and hard won as a mile through drifted snow.

January so bereft of warmth even air the snaps with cold.
Color flees, shades of grey and white take its place creating splendid vistas of crystalline beauty in its wake.
Life ventures outside reluctantly, scurrying quickly to finish its business
and escape the cold wrath of January.

DSW 2008

IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO BE WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

George Elliott

Best wishes to all for a very Happy New Year!!!

This is my latest collage "The Straight Gate". I made it for the laundry room because it needed a little prospective. I can't sell these because they have a lot of copyrighted art that I love in them they are just for my own enjoyment.

For anyone who is interested today is the fourth day of Christmas, so if you are someones true love, you need to round up four calling birds in a hurray.

I love this picture, it was ruthlessly stolen off of Sketchpot's blog because it is the perfect image of how I feel the day after Christmas, with my too much shopping, cooking, wrapping, rich food & candy hangover. Christmas 2008 is gone and hopefully a good time was had by all. I know we were very blessed, but now I just want to sit here and veg with no dip please.

May the peace and joy the Savior brings for each one of us be yours at Christmas and throughout the year.

Merry Christmas everyone!

GIFTS IN GODS NAME

When we give each other

Christmas presents in His name,

Let us remember that He has given us

the sun and the moon and the stars,

the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans-

and all that lives and moves upon them.

He has given us all green things

and everything that blossoms and bears fruit-

and all that we quarrel about

and all that we have misused-

And to save us from our foolishness,

from our sins,

He came down to earth

and gave us Himself.

Sigrid Undset

For some reason unknown to myself I have always been fascinated by Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" a wonderful tale of hope and redemption. Ebenezer Scrooge has been a favorite subject of mine and I have created my version of his image in almost every art medium I work in, this is the latest version, his crabby old face always makes me smile. I think it's because he renews my faith in our ability to change ourselves for the better. It's nice to see someone triumph over their lesser nature. Anyway to quote Tiny Tim "God bless us every one."

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