I spent a LOT of time on art this weekend! As I continued to experiment with my watercolors and watercolor paper, I realized I needed to get a lot "looser" and more "painterly" with the brush to really succeed with watercolor.
I spent some time mowing up the leaves in the yard today. I always wear my headset and play my praise playlist when I'm riding the lawn tractor. Simple inspiration to try some fall colored birch trees for practice and meditation.
I adore the fall colors in my area! I spent time telling God how beautiful his creation is as I worked out these trees. The conspicuous empty spot on the right needed a verse about trees, but I was called to this quote I found online instead. And afraid to completely destroy the painting with a calligraphic error, I decided to electronically overlay the quote instead.
I had no idea who John Burroughs was, but after a quick online search, I found he was a naturalist and a writer about the beauty of nature from the early 1900's, and who lived not very far from where I live! While researching, I saw another of his more famous quotes, "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind." This quote gave me more to meditate and talk to God about.
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