August 31, 2015

Wedding Lace

Here is a beautiful work of art.  The perfect accessory for any Bride-to-be.  A lace bracelet cuff: hand beaded with silver, pearls, shell beads, and gems.  



August 26, 2015

Row Boat, Oars, and an Anchor

This past Sunday at church during our Relief Society class lesson (which is the Women's studies class), our teacher gave her lesson from a General Conference talk from 2014 by Dieter F. Uchtdorf titled Receiving a Testimony of Truth and Light (follow link to read).  It was beautiful!  It spoke to me so much that I felt the need to paint once again.  Come with me as I take you on a journey into my ever filling, slightly chaotic, vast abyss of a mind.

The talk is about having truth, and seeing it as light, and taking that light and sharing it with others once we are strong enough to do so.  This talk helps us learn how to be strong, what we need to have light and truth in our lives.  But this quote is what started my painting gears cranking.

"It seems to be a trait of humanity to assume that we are right even when we are wrong. And if that is the case, what hope is there for any of us? Are we destined to drift aimlessly on an ocean of conflicting information, stranded on a raft we have poorly pieced together from our own biases?
Is it possible to find truth?
The purpose of my remarks is to proclaim the joyful message that God Himself—the Lord of Hosts who knows all truth—has given His children the promise that they can know truth for themselves."

August 1, 2015

Journey of Thoughts

When I first started this blog, it was going to strictly be just for my shared Etsy shop.  But after a while, I just felt that by opening up more "about the artist" you would enjoy this experience more.  I call this my Journey of Thoughts, because you may not get what I do, you may not like all my work, you may not understand my thoughts regarding my work.  Guess what?  That's okay, art is truly an expression of one's own life experiences, views, and personality attributes.  People tend to relate to art because they see something or feel something within themselves when viewing or experiencing that piece of art.

As an artist, we experience and feel and see as we create each work that we do.  Much like a doctor looking for a medical cure for the span of his or her life, or a scientist searching for that missing link to his or her research, our art is our life.  It's what we want to share, what we want to beautify the world with.  My thoughts are intimate to me, they define what comes out of my mouth, what I do, and how I feel.  Most importantly though, my thoughts are what make me "see"; see color, see texture, see sadness, see love, see tribulation, courage etc.

Welcome to my crazy, not always pertinent, not always clear, not so orderly, Journey of Thoughts.