Women with Jesus Prints For Sale

14" matted prints and 10" nonmatted prints of the Women with Jesus are currently for sale.  The 14" (19" after matting) are $75 and the 10" are $20, plus S&H.  Contact me if interested!  The Christmas cards continue to be on sale, as well, and have been selling fast!

Women with Jesus Goes 3-D

The "Women with Jesus" series of oil pastels on black matte board has gone 3-D this fall.  In September, I translated the drawing "The Woman that Touched Jesus' Cloak" into a 17" wide geometric sculpture made of 4 different types of exotic woods.  Just this week I translated my newest drawing, "Warhol Madonna and nChild," seen on the Christmas cards currently ready for purchase, into another geometric sculpture made of the same exotic wood.  This fall, "Warhol Madonna and Child" and "Elizabeth's Praise" made their way into the original series of oil pastels.  In addition, I am currently completing "The Widow's Mite," the ninth and tenth pieces in the "Women with Jesus."    

What if Jesus was actually Drawing in the Sand?

What if Jesus was actually drawing in the sand, not writing, when the woman was accused of adultery?  What if Jesus was expressing his compassion on the woman through artistic expression?  What if he was preparing his teaching for the men who brought her with a quick drawing?  What if he were delivering the Word through artistic expression?  Through his parables, he drew for the people visual images of God's realm.  What if those visual images weren't solely metaphorical?  Wouldn't we be amazed if archeologists would one day unsurface a papyrus or sheepskin sketch journal that Jesus may have kept?   

And the Race is On! (Memorial Day)

Please be lifting up those prayers (I will also take good kharma and happy thoughts.) for me tomorrow, Memorial Day, at 10:30am.  At our Oklahoma Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church held at St. Luke's UMC, OKC, I have been commissioned to paint a 4' x 6" of my interpretation of our theme, "A Bridge to the Future."  I have just the time in worship to begin and complete it!  I have spent weeks working on the conception by sketching out the composition and looking at other art for ideas.  And I have spent all weekend buying BIG supplies for this large and speedy project and painting three 16"x 20" "proofs," yet I still feel unprepared.  Time to put it to bed and forget about it for the night so I can look at it with fresh and spontaneous eyes!  As I have discovered this year, my art is my sermon.  So, "May the words of my HANDS (and paintbrushes) and the meditation of all of our hearts be yours, O God, for you are our rock, our strength, and our redeemer!"

Congrats to Matt Josef

Congrats to Matt Josef who just hosted an open house at his new studio apartment in the Plaza District this last Friday.  Good luck in your new digs!

Photo Realism Independent Study

My drawing professor at OCU says he normally doesn't recommend Photo Realism, but he has suggested that for my Independent Study with him this summer that I concentrate on the experiements I began with photo realism last summer.  Lots of graphing in my future for this summer!  I began class this week and I have graphed a shot of Lydia I took this last winter and a photo of a lionfish to complete my "Out of the waters I will bring forth swarms of living creatures" Gen. 1 series.

The Women With Jesus Opens at the St. Luke's McPhail Gallery this Sunday, May 1

Is your favorite the scandalous Woman at the Well who was so ridiculed that she had to walk for water in the middle of the day, or the woman who believed so deeply in Jesus' touch that after 12 years of hemorraging she did everything she had to do to just touch Jesus' cloak? 

My first series, "The Women with Jesus," along with several other pieces will be on exhibition at the McPhail Gallery inside St. Luke's UMC, OKC, beginning this Sunday, May 1.  The exhibition runs through June 2.  I am thrilled for this opportunity as it is my first running solo exhibition.  I hope that this exhibition is fun and inspiring for its viewers.