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Sunday, March 21, 2010

White Throated Sparrow

Sooo I am still waiting for photos of "little miracle".  In the meantime, here is the beginning of a White-Throated Sparrow.  I am thinking this may be the last TN bird for a short while.  But that is not a promise.  :-)
I am thinking of a large rectangle wall clock in fall colors with the TN bird drawings that I have already finished on it.  hmmm....I'll let you know if that happens and put up a pic of it.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Cedar Waxwing (TN Bird #4)

I finished this little guy that I caught stealing berries off a holly bush outside my window this past winter.  He is number four in my drawings of TN birds.  I am still waiting for pictures of "little miracle" to draw him, so in the meantime, I have started a drawing of a Grasshopper Sparrow I caught on the ground under a bird feeder.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Cedar Waxwing

While I am waiting for pictures of little miracle, I am drawing another Tennessee bird--a Cedar Waxwing.  Here is the beginning that I started today.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Temple Steps, Xian, China

Here is the latest drawing.  This one proved very difficult for some reason, but in the end I did it.  This drawing is from the front of a temple in Xian, China.  Next, I will be attempting my first portrait of a friend's little miracle baby that was born as a premie and has had a lot to overcome.  At one point he was in the hospital and almost died.  Standing in faith, the little one has made it.  So I am hoping to be able to draw them a memory of their miracle.  I will keep you posted on the progress.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Peek-a-boo

This little girl (female bluebird) was caught
peaking into the bedroom window.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

       
I hope to have these two drawings finished by Monday.  One is of the front porch of a temple in Xian.  The other is of a female bluebird that I managed to get a camera shot of while she was peaking at me through my bedroom window this last February.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

As Clay in my Father's Hand

This pot with water flowing out of it was in the river inside the Opryland Hotel in Nashville last fall.  When I see it, I think of a river flowing from my Father's throne.  I think of the Holy Spirit flowing through me and overflowing into the lives of those around me.  This past week, I was reading Jer 18: 1-6, and I saw the clay pot (or vessel) molded by the hands of the Father ready for use. 

Buzzing around....


I have been working on this drawing, drawing this little guy over and over again, but I can't just seem to get him right.  He was posing for the camera last fall on a miniature zinnia in a friends garden.