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Palate Knife Oil Painting

All Creatures Great and Small

Creature Inspiration Two of my favorite sources of inspiration for creating art about animals are books! Reading James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small warmed my heart and drew me into the country English setting and the quaint world of a country veterinarian with curiosity and wonder. Another book I love is Rien Poortvliets’ Noah’s Ark. It’s a beautifully done artistic journal of what life with animals on an ark could have been like. He’s an extremely gifted artist and has created an amazing celebration of life in this book. A graphite study I did from his book is below...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Glorious Messenger

Glorious Messenger is a Christmas painting inspired by Luke 2:8-10 I just finished. In the passage, the shepherd’s encounter with an angel from the Lord is recorded and leaves the reader with a sense of awe and wonder. It made me curious. The only description we have is that the angel is described as suddenly appearing to them and because the glory of the Lord filled the area with light, they were terrified. What would that look like? What would it have felt like to witness this? This painting is not intended to answer these questions definitively but is my...

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Sea Turtle Progression

How painting a Sea Turtle showed me the value of mid-tones. This was a commission from a friend who absolutely loves Sea Turtles. I love them too but this was not a subject I would have chosen because of the detail involved but I dove into the challenge. As the painting progressed I focused on the darkest and lightest values during the entire process. At the suggestion of my wonderful artist friends in Art Kula, I finally added the mid-tones at the end. The video below shows the Sea Turtle progression from start to finish. You will notice how heavy...

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A Wave On the Sand

Waves of water in motion Powerful, gentle, rolling, crashing, sweet, salty waves engaged my heart for hours on a beach in Roatan last month. The waves that day moved within the ocean’s space and the tide’s rhythm contently. They were safe to swim in. I considered how the constant motion of the ocean is contained when waves on the sand reach their natural limits. Watching the beautiful conflict of rolling water breaking with a crash, and melting back soothingly into the ocean was mesmerizing. The movement stilled me with a calm rhythm that healed. Sand is the stuff of the...

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Beach Therapy for An Artist’s Soul

Beach Therapy Beach therapy happens when you step out of the stress and pressure of your daily life and plunge yourself into days of rest at the shore of the ocean. Beach Therapy for an Artis’s soul happened by allowing myself to embrace the actual Creator of this beauty and explore more deeply what He is like. Looking at the expanse of the horizon and the power of the ocean, I encountered God in a posture of wonder and awe. The entire experience was a gift. Ocean Inspiration There is so much to love about the ocean. The rhythm of...

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Collage / Color

A Spring Tree for my friend

A friend messaged me on Facebook asking for a painting of one of my trees. It’s always a joy when someone I knew quite a long time ago reaches out and we can reconnect. I remembered her as an inspirational woman who loved God and her family well. She served and blessed others with her encouragement and humility and patient strength. I worked to create a piece that included teals and reds that she likes with a calm, serene feel. As spring unfolded around me, the tree also came to life on my canvas. The background is acrylic laid on...

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Collage / Color

Mixed Media Collage Roosters for Spring!

Collage is one of my favorite mixed media techniques to use when making these fun spring roosters. Using fun spring colors and various materials make their strutting attitude pop and grab your interest. Creating these fun fancy spring roosters does take a lot of time and layers of materials, but they are well worth it and one of my best sellers at art sales and shows. Some of the materials used are hymn book pages, colored scrapbook acid-free paper scraps, or any other interesting torn paper and dried acrylic paint that I peal up off of a palette. This is...

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Palate Knife Oil Painting

Gladiolas

Gladiolas are one of my favorite flowers. They have always seemed very brave flowers to me and I like that their name has the word glad in it because that’s how I felt when I finished this painting. This one was done with oil paint and a palette knife with very quick strokes and thick paint. Since none of these are blooming where I live now, I thought this was a perfect time to post it. Enjoy! Gladiolas, October 2021, Oil on Canvas with palette knife, 15″ x 30 ” $200.00 This one is available for sale should you need...

Beautiful Star, Acrylic, Jesus in a mangerCheryl White, Artist, Blogger, Paintonmywalls, 2

Color / Exhibits

Come and See A Beautiful Star!

A Beautiful Star is what lead the shepherds to come and see, Jesus, born in a manger. It had to be astounding, glorious, unlike anything they had ever seen. I don’t know if it looked anything like this, but printing this star felt like Christmas splashing onto a canvas. This painting won Best in Show at the Premiere Gallery Local Artists Show, Flower Mound, TX November 15, 2008. You are invited to come and see it at my upcoming Art Show. You can come and see this one in person at our upcoming Vintage Wares and Original Art show December...

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Mixed Media Butterflies

Mixed Media Butterflies Mixed Media Butterflies bursting with delightful color and texture are all over my art studio right now. Mixed media in visual art means that more than one medium was used to create the piece of artwork. These butterflies are part collage, ink, india ink, and acrylic paint. As I painted them, I thought about the scales that cover their wings and wanted to reflect that in the art. These were created with layers of ink and diluted acrylic paint building on top of each other. I named them Become, Transform, and Metamorphos. Butterfly Inspiration I have had...