EMERGENCE

This is one of my pixel painting (digital art work). The before a rebirth and then after.

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MY STUDIO

DESERT DWELLER

A day trip to Sedona AZ produced the photos
that inspired this painting. Comprised of two different photos taken in the Sedona area.

THE DANCE

We have a yard full of oak trees. Having
always loved the colors of fall, this year I finally put brush to canvas to paint some of them.

There is another part of this painting. My wonderful husband and I met and married after we were in our ‘fall’ years. When we met, we were both kind of flying around trying to find what we wanted to do with ourselves sand kind of ‘crashed’ into each other and now are dancing through the rest of our lives together. I would not want to be ‘Dancing’ with any other person on this Earth.

PRAIRIE ANGELS

Prairie Angles is
a painting about the trials of the pioneers coming across the planes and
settling the United States. Many did not survive the hard trek and their bodies
were buried along the trail. But then they became the Angles who helped the
others to push the hand carts, comforted the ill and sang songs of encouragement.
These five angles seem to be waiting for a chance to reach out and help in the time of need.

EQUALLY YOKED

“Our concept of marriage is motivated by revealed truth, not by worldly sociology. The Apostle Paul taught, ‘Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord’ (1 Corinthians 11:11).

President Spencer W. Kimball explained, ‘Without proper (equally yoked) and successful marriage, one will never be exalted’

WISE EYES

I painted this for a charity auction, that never happened.

I ended up really liking it and am very glad I painted it.

RED BARN

This last year I challenged all of my face
book friends to post photos they thought would make good paintings. Then after
a set date I would chose several and then they could vote on which they liked
the best. This painting is a combination composite of two of those photos, one for the main body, the other the sky. I will be giving them this challenge again
at least once a year. It was very fun to do the challenge.

THE DREAM WELL

My own personal family histories have always fascinated me. Over time I have repeatedly heard the story of one of my ancestors who helped settle Northern Arizona as a Mormon pioneer.

The family had moved to an area in the AZ White mountains that was called Fools Hollow. My understanding is that the reason it was called Fools Hollow was because others had tried to settle there and had failed because they could not find water in the area for a well, making it necessary for them to have to travel a mile or more to get their supple of water.

While this ancestor was trying to settle there his brother and nephew came to visit. They had discussed the water situation and one night my ancestor had a dream about where he could find water. The next morning he told his brother about the dream and it was decided that they would start digging for water that day. Within a relatively short amount of time, of digging, they found water. This well ended up supplying several families for generations.

My grandmother’s journal included a very small black and white photo of this well taken year after the families had moved. I used this very small photo as the model for this painting called ‘The Dream Well’. Someone later told me that the well was still a producing well but that had been abandoned because they were putting in a new housing development and flooding that area to create a lake for the subdivision.

WILD ROSE

THE LESSONS

THE RED WINDOW

THE PROTECTOR

I painted this painting for my husband soon after we were married in June of 2005

OH MY LOVE

SHRIMP FLOWERS

THE GOOD MOTHER

THE LAST STEPS TO HOME

SMALL WONDERS

ROCKIN' K

THE GATHERING STORM