Portrait Sketches

Three hour setting...each. Strathmore 200 series ivory.

Back to Art....

Note: the color is off...but that is really not important....didn't take the time to correct them.

Sketch #1 - 30 minutes conté crayon compressed chalk on strathmore 200 series ivory.

Sketch #2 - 1 minute gestures on newsprint - warmups
Sketch #3, #4 - 15 minutes newsprint.

Happy New Year...

What will the New Year 2012 bring .... I have many dreams of creating beautiful art and many desires of my heart to share God's Word with others. Maybe one of my earnest desires is being fulfilled this week as a class is forming. I will know Thursday if the Lord is in this. JOYFUL anticipation....

Psalms 37 ... "3 Trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) in the Lord and do good; so shall you dwell in the land and feed surely on His faithfulness, and truly you shall be fed. 4 Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He will give you the desires and secret petitions of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord [roll and repose each care of your load on Him]; trust (lean on, rely on, and be confident) also in Him and He will bring it to pass. 6 And He will make your uprightness and right standing with God go forth as the light, and your justice and right as [the shining sun of] the noonday." (spiritual growth, physical growth)

Psalms 127 ... " 1 EXCEPT THE LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; except the Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes but in vain."

Is God Almighty actively involved in the affairs of mankind? I witness to all that absolutely He is . . . . but one has to have eyes to see and ears to hear.

"Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for; the EVIDENCE of things not seen." (Hebrews 11:1)

Wonderful thought to know that God keeps His Promises...He cannot lie.

Thank you for what you are going to do in my life this year . . . . Amen.

Great anticipation for 2012 ...