Day 11. Those Spinning Wheels.
Author: Denise Hopkins
Day 10. Magic.
Day 9. Take your own advice.
“Taking the World into my Arms,” 6×6, oil on canvas I was having some trouble in the studio, so I took the advice I recently gave another artist: paint something familiar while you wait for the next inspiration to come. It usually comes when you’re painting, afterall. So I pulled three figures from a photograph […]
Day 8. There you Always are
“Sometimes I Need Only to Stand Wherever I am to be Blessed” 8 in diamater, oil on canvas Yesterday, after posting my painting with the great blue heron, I went for a run. I haven’t been running much lately– the December marathon felt like a triple exclamation point and now I hardly know how to […]
Day 7. Love Letters.
“Led by Love” 8×8 oil on canvas Writer Elizabeth Gilbert has a spiritual practice called “two-way” prayer where she writes a letter to God which she often just calls Love and then writes a letter back to herself from Love. I tried this practice months ago and it was so good, so healing that I […]
Day 6. Stand as 10,000
Day 5. Exhale.
“Exhale” 6×6 oil on canvas I have been keeping a sketchbook this month in hopes of making this 31 a little more organized, a little less frantic. If I can work out the ideas ahead of time, so goes my thinking, my actual studio time can be less fraught. Ease is my word for 2024 […]
Day 4. Displaced
“Holy Longing” 8×8, oil on canvas Back in November I was in Baton Rouge visiting my brother and we took a walk in his neighborhood which is in the middle of town, full of big historic homes and beautiful well-kept lawns. When I spotted a fox in someone’s yard, I at first thought it had […]
Day 3. Ease.
“You Have My Full Attention” 4×4, oil on canvas “I don’t know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed” – Mary Oliver A while back, before it finally and […]