PICASSO PONY
Acrylic on Canvas
A Painting a Day
Acrylic on Canvas
A Painting a Day
Today I am going to finish up some red flowers that are a commission piece and start a new piece exploring another area in painting that I dabbled in last year in the spring. I am anxious to push new limits and explore more.
Here is something interesting I read this morning:
Something to think and pray about this week
There is a story from the desert fathers. A certain brother came to the abbot Moses seeking a word from him. The old man said, "Go and sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything." The ability to sit still, in silence, with nothing except the silence (not even a mobile phone or the sound of music), really does frighten people, as Saint Anthony explained: "The one who sits in solitude and quiet has escaped from three wars: hearing, speaking and seeing; yet against one thing shall he continually battle: that is, his own heart." More than a thousand years later Pascal was of the same mind: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."
As an artist always always in the studio, and often alone with time to reflect as color pours out on the canvas...there is solitude in painting and music that arises from the motion. Perhaps that is why, even though there are areas in my life that are not the best, when I am here in the studio I feel complete because of the solitude.
I am up early, Terry is still asleep so the house is quiet. I have much to do today and things happening with family in Dallas. Letting Go and Letting God again... every day...it is my mantra followed by prayer.
Grace,
Laurie
“I heard but could not understand; so I said, ‘My lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?’” —Daniel 12:8
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