Comments on: Life’s Small Textures

By: Mary Pace

Mary Pace — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:36:25 +0000

I LOVE your blog! AWESOME!!

By: Nita Mata

Nita Mata — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:14:54 +0000

Yes! Of course…..”Walk in the Vineyard” is hanging over my reading chair in my bedroom……I love it.

By: Barb Hartsook

Barb Hartsook — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:11:07 +0000

Thanks Nita… you should recognize the “Walk in the Vineyard.”

I understand the kicking and screaming part — truth is sometimes hard to see, but it actually does work. Wayne Dyer says things change the way they look when we change the way we look at them. How true that can be in art! And in all life.

By: Nita Mata

Nita Mata — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:15:54 +0000

I love it…..”God weaves all our daily entanglements and urgencies and oopsies together for good if we love and trust…” Your interpretation is easier to understand than King James! So, so true……weren’t we lucky to have parents who instilled that understanding in us……but I admit I went into it kicking and screaming. It’s been a slow process to be able to truly and fully believe that without the self-deprecation one experiences until she does believe it.

I love these ……which never would have been so beautifully created without the “failures”. Oh, yes…..God is indeed a “knitting artist”!

By: Barb Hartsook

Barb Hartsook — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:01:51 +0000

Pat Dew’s DVD can be found at the link above. I looked too for the book — I’ve had it awhile. Maybe your library consortium can get it for you???

I’ll watch for your new post — I love the idea of pouring paint. You can get some wonderful results — do you use a mask to protect areas, or just wet areas where you want the paint to flow?

Thanks for commenting on my two textures pieces.

Barb

By: quirkyartist

quirkyartist — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:06:55 +0000

Wow. These are wonderful. So vivid. I have been hankering after Pat Dews’ book for a long time, but it seems to be out of print now and expensive. I didn’t know there was a video.
We are pouring paint at the moment. I’ve written a post & will publish it when the sun comes out & I can take a photo. Or maybe I should get the tripod out.

By: Barb Hartsook

Barb Hartsook — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:43:31 +0000

Thank you Susie! Both for liking my painting and the way I reword the great Biblical wisdoms to make them practical in my life.

I can thank my mom for teaching me to think this way… she helped me through math story problems as a child, teaching me to reduce everything to simple terms until I could SEE it. I’m still doing that…

Barb

By: Susie

Susie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:54:26 +0000

I love Impromptu….and your take on that wonderful verse in Romans…put a smile on my face with both of them this morning….brava! I love purples so first viewed your other work, but this one took my heart and filled it with joy!

By: Barb Hartsook

Barb Hartsook — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:41:14 +0000

I’d love to see the torn paper portrait… have you seen those portraits done with mosaics of little paintings? When you back away, it’s the values that make the portrait, not the images themselves. I find that concept fascinating…something to grow toward.

So you sold your painting-collage before getting a photo of it? Good for you!!!

Thanks for your comments Bunny…

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:03:43 +0000

I did a collage using cut up or torn pieces of paintings I wasn’t particularly pleased with in our watercolor class. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture of it and it sold, which is not a bad thing. I saw a beautiful painting in a plastic surgeon’s office of a portrait, which someone had cut out and then placed back together … it was very striking.