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Palate Knife Oil Painting

How do you paint forgiveness?

How do you paint forgiveness? It’s easier to show you than to tell you. These two new oil paintings inspired by extended and received mercy and love modeled in the Bible are my attempt to paint forgiveness. What is forgiveness? When I began the process of painting forgiveness, the foundation of forgiveness taught in Scripture was key. The Bible reveals that God’s idea of forgiveness is unselfish love. 1 Corinthians 13:5 describes this kind of love with the language, “it keeps no record of wrongs.” If we endeavor to practice this kind of forgiveness with others, it means letting go...

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Color / Palette Knife Oil Painting

A Woman Healed and Restored

This narrative about a woman healed and restored is recorded in three out of the four gospels and this one from Mark 5:24-34 inspired this painting. I loved this woman’s faith and the fact that although there were crowds around Jesus, she found a way to get to him just to touch his cloak. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” And she was! But there’s more! When Jesus realized that power had gone out...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Praying for Jerusalem

I thought this recent commission from a friend was worth sharing. I usually paint nature and landscapes, so when this request came in, I was challenged by it in more ways than one. She wanted a very small painting of Jerusalem, and the reason she wanted it, was so she could hang it in her office and be reminded to pray for the people in Jerusalem and the entire city regularly. Who could say no to that? Here’s the painting! Prayer for Jerusalem Painting, Oil on Canvas, 6″ x 12″ And here is a prayer… I found this prayer from...

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Oil Painting

A Study of Springtime by Claude Monet

Completing studies of paintings from favorite master artists is an excellent practice. I have not done this for several years but is such a wonderful exercise. I plan on doing more of these soon. The benefit of doing this every so often is that the artist has already set the composition and chosen the subject matter which are very time-consuming steps. I try to follow that as closely as possible when I do a study and imitate the same color palette as much as I can. Then, I let go and have fun. It’s not important to stress over every...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Inspiration from Psalm 23:1 for Grazing Sheep Painting

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. 3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:1-3 David was a shepherd. As a boy, he cared for sheep and kept them safe, fed, sheltered, and together. He led them where he knew fresh grass and water would be and fought off their enemies for them. When they were injured he cared for them. When they were lost, he found them. However, years...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Turtle Lake Sunset

Inspiration Turtle Lake Sunset was one of my favorite paintings in this series so far. I loved celebrating the beauty and color of nature during this journey. The inspiration for this painting came from this photo. We were on a long evening boat ride and witnessed this stunning sunset. I just took this photo with my iPhone and couldn’t believe how well it turned out. who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples, so that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

A Meadow for Patra

The Inspiration The inspiration for this painting came from a photo I came across online of this beautiful field full of flowers. It seemed crisp and clean and sunny and the perfect subject for a painting. The Palette For this one, I used my typical palette, Ultramarine, Alizarin, Titanium White, Lemon Yellow, and Cadmium Yellow but I left out the Yellow Ochre and Burnt Sienna and added in Rose Red for the lovely pinks. The Painting This is Patra’s Meadow, 30″ x 24″done in oil with a palette knife on gallery-wrapped canvas. After working on small pieces lately, it was...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Quick Limited Palette Demo

Here is a quick demo using a limited palette of six tubes of paint. This is to show that while the color mixing demonstrations in the previous three posts (Mixing Greens, Mixing Purples, Mixing Oranges) are all great practice exercises, we don’t really need all those colors to complete one painting. The colors in this demo are Lemon Yellow, Yellow Ochre, Titanium White, Ultramarine, Raw Sienna, and Alizarin Crimson. Limited Palette Demo Here’s the Result I just did this very quickly on an 8×10″ canvas pad with oil as a quick study. I like the hazy look that happened by...

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You Can’t Go Wrong with Mixing Orange

Mixing Orange Demo When it comes to mixing oil colors for orange, there are so many beautiful combinations of reds and yellows. It is pretty hard to go wrong. Here is a quick one-minute demo showing the combinations you can get with Lemon Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Alizarin Red, and Rose Red. The Alizarin Red and Rose Red combinations look pretty similar. Where you will see the difference is later on if you add white to the mix. Enjoy the Demo and when you are done, try it! You will have the perfect palette for a gorgeous sunset painting....

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How to Mix Vivid Purples

Mixing Purples Demo Red and Blue make purple….or do they? Do they always? Check out this quick one-minute demo below to find out. It shows the vivid purples resulting from mixing Ultramarine Blue with either Alizarine Crimson or Rose Red. And, (spoiler alert) it also shows the dull muddy color that results from combining Cadmium Red with Cerulean Blue. Colors Lean Ultramarine leans toward red on the color wheel and Cerulean leans closer to green. Alizarin Crimson leans toward blue and Cadmium Red leans away toward orange. Both Cadmium Red and Cerulean have a bit of yellow in them. On...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

How to Mix A Variety of Greens

Mixing Greens Demo We all know that yellow and blue make green. But what type of green you want determines which blues and yellows you will start with. The demo in the video below is done with oil paints, but it would hold true for acrylics as well. In this video, I show the different greens possible using 5 paint colors: Cerulean Blue and Ultramarine Blue, Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow Deep Hue, and Lemon Yellow. Leaning Colors That is not a typo. I’m not talking about “learning” colors, but “leaning” colors. If you visualize a color wheel, there are several...

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Oil Painting

Cool Color Palette Cabin At Turtle Lake Painting

The Place It’s hard to decide which is more fun, visiting our friend’s cabin at Turtle Lake or painting it. We love getting out of the Texas heat and driving up to visit them. The sweet fellowship, cooling lake water, excellent fresh-caught fish, and pine-scented air set the perfect backdrop for rest, relaxation, and renewal. There is no road to this cabin. You can only get there by boat. There is no internet or wifi or social media. There is a TV, but for some reason, while we are there, there’s no time to watch it. It is truly a...