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Whirlwind
24 x 36 Oils on Canvas by Laurie Pace
Going back through past years of painting is really inspiring. This one lives in North Carolina. It never made the website, I had shared progress pieces on my blog back then and one of my clients said... it is mine. I want it. Whirlwind has to do with Elijah in the Bible.
2 Kings 2:11 "As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind."
Elijah was great prophet and you really need to read to story to grasp it. Some say it foreshadowed Christ's Ascension after his death.
As I study this painting, I truly am motivated to paint. I need to order a new easel as I sold my large one three years ago just before my Mom fell sick. I had been using a smaller one and it just is not working well for me. I like painting larger and fell less inhibited by space and movement than on small tiny canvas.
Inhibited and thoughts of Elijah
Meaning of inhibited is to prohibit something or to discourage free or spontaneous activity. That is the last thing an artist needs... or the last two things. First to feel inhibited from painting and secondly once you start to feel inhibited for your motion of brush or knife or rag.
Have you ever felt locked in or limited in someway from doing something or from living your life? Like the times when you feel like everything you do is by rote movement without thought....automatically going through the motions? Our days here on this earth are numbered by the Lord. We should be living every single day in serving others and living our lives with out electronics (Says me typing this blog for the internet.)- but that is why I stopped blogging so much. I used to do a small paragraph and a painting back in 2006. Now search engines demand so much more... many many paragraphs and lists and photos. Talk about an electronic whirlwind, just writing a blogs and hitting the word Publish... and your hour of work or more is launched in a cyber swoosh.
Choose wisely as you invest your time each day. Less TV and less computer screen is always the best. Spend time with people, ones you care about and love. Make sure you tell them you love them and appreciate them. Our lives are like Whirlwinds today... but remember always the Lord is your strength and your shield.
Psalm 28:7-8: "The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me. My heart leaps for joy, and with my song, I praise him. The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one."
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Laurie Pace - A Texas Artist
Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.
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