inspiration

i love looking at erin morrison's work... she has a new website and her paintings are inspiring.
her website is www.erinmorrison.com

goodbye rahab and jochabed

this weekend was the ARTS FESTIVAL at First Baptist Church downtown.. it was their first annual one and the theme was Psalms 23... i entered four pieces
it went really well... it was a jurrored event, one of the jurrors was from Cheekwood Museum here in Nashville. I won one of the 4 purchase awards for my painting of Rahabi really loved this piece. it is sad a little bit to say goodbye to it forever. she has sat with me while i worked for the past 8 months or so... but im happy that it won an award and i parted with it on terms i was delighted about :)

and a little suprise for me today... one of my other pieces sold! Jochabed- who i never expected to part with. it was such a personal piece i figured no one would ever want it... haha... but this really nice couple from the church loved it and i told them the story behind the image today when i met themthey said they were going to hang it over their fireplace! what an honorable spot :) i am so excited that someone loved this piece and felt emotional about it the way i did. she is going to a good home. this piece was on paper and my dad built me a panel just the right size so i mounted it.

i did a new painting for the show too- another piece honoring the adulterous woman from the new testament who was almost stoned. this is really the only big painting that i have done since graduation that i consider part of my "body of work"
the way i tied my pieces into a psalms 23 theme was that i made the psalms verse the womans prayer and then put the excerpt from the passage about the woman after that. so this piece was titled:

though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil... and when the acusers heard this, they dropped the stones and walked away one by one