Christmastime Paintings

Christmas is in the air and it's great to reflect it in painting.  I just finished a four hour workshop with several students painting poinsettias.  Every Christmas I paint poinsettias using different techniques, but always with a live poinsettia in front of me.  The students enjoyed trying out the technique on a small painting before launching into a larger one.  This painting is still in progress.

Normally I don't paint conceptual paintings, but I was asked to create a Christmas Concert inspired by the music our church choir is singing.  It was a fun challenge to pay attention to the lyrics and see a thread running through them that could be reflected in a painting.

This fall I've enjoyed being a part of a wonderful women's contemplative Bible study at church.  This painting is another conceptual painting experience  trying to capture the essence of the study - listening with open heart to the Scriptures and each other.