Father, Forgive Them

Oil on 5x7 gessoed hardboard.

I still feel a bit down with my back/COPD. I had a painting underway for today, but couldn't complete it on time. So, here's one I originally posted in 2009.

I started this painting without much pre planning. Each element was added as a separate, last minute, after-thought ...the light halo glow...the crown of thorns...the stream of blood... the cross against the foreboding sky.

Almost as if it painted itself, as they say. Psssst... Between you and me, I believe that sometimes He takes a hand in it. He paints it...I just hold the brush. I call it PUI..."painting under the influence".

I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. Please remember the true meaning. Keep love and hope alive in your hearts.....The best is yet to come.


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Luke 23:34 NIV
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

The Meaning-Easter

Easter 2012

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is a painting of a crop from last year's Easter painting. I also reprinted the original commentary. It all fit together so well.

This is my contribution to The Easter Challenge at DPW posted by Carol Marine .

Carol said: With Easter right around the corner, this week's challenge is to paint it in any form you wish. Feel free to paint your own eggs/candy/bunnies/whatever moves you! As usual, have fun!

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I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. Please remember the true meaning. Keep love and hope alive in your hearts.....The best is yet to come.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Luke 23:34 NIV
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

Mark 16: ⁴ And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

Classy-Afghan Hound.

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Joel was the great host. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

I chose to paint this stately dog because the coat is fascinating with all that flowing fur. I had fun laying in the impasto strokes selectively. The impasto was done with a loaded brush....Yes the brush was loaded, not me! No palette knife was used...and no doggies were harmed in the making of this painting...

Originally, I believed this was a Russian Wolfhound, and said so in my title. I corrected the title when Kathryn Ragan of Studio At The Farm came to my rescue and pointed out that it's actually an Afghan Hound. Thank you Kathryn! Get over to her fine blog and check out the great demo she did on a super painting of geese!

Thanks for looking!

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Colossians 3:17 "And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."

In The Wind-Horses

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Mo was the great hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

I liked the look/possibilities of the horses in a reference photo.
Once again, I used the palette knife for this. More and more I find the palette knife to be very freeing from the compulsion for detail. The knife is a terrific tool to inject creative expressiveness into a painting. Confession...I did use a brush for eyes, and nostrils. It was great fun.
Thanks for looking!

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Luke 18^:14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Vietnam Market-Figurative

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Oil on 6x6 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Connie was the great hostess. Thanks for the wonderful reference photos.

For something a little different, I decided to try my hand at this market in Vietnam.
I aimed to use saturated color in this one. I used both a brush and palette knife. I wanted to use enough colors and ambiguous shapes to show the clamor and excitement of a market.
Thanks for looking!

Luke 11^:33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

The Unconditional Kind

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Oil on 5x7 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Susan was the great hostess. Thanks for the terrific reference photos.

Nothing says "unconditional love" like a child or a dog. These two earthly entities have to be very close to the love of angels.

This is something NEW for me and I really enjoy it....palette knife painting!!!
In the past, I have dabbled with a spot here and there with the painting knife...but this is the real McCoy! In a very few areas I used my finger or a brush to pull things together. I'm very happy with this style and all the color "happenings" it creates.
Thanks for looking!

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Matthew 22:³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’

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The spammers have been too active lately, so I enabled "comment moderation" again. Now the comments have all but stopped. One got through today.
Do me a favor, please...If you have difficulty leaving a comment please email me at kkayangel2(at)yahoo.com. I would appreciate the "heads up". If there's a problem, I'll remove the "moderation".
Then again, maybe no one is leaving comments because of lack of interest..Lol!

Innocence-Taiwanese Child

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Oil on 7x5 canvas panel.

This is my contribution to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Dewi was the great host. Thanks for the terrific tour of Taiwan via reference photos, Dewi.

The wide eyed innocent expression of this Taiwanese child reached out and touched me.
I enjoyed using some of the unusual (for me) colors...violet-yellow-orange.
Thanks for looking!

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Matthew 19^:14 Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

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Update 1-22-12

First, let me say, I really appreciate all your comments! It lets me know someone is "out there". It gives a purpose to blogging for me.

I suspect there has been an email snafu. I had comment moderation on and all my emails have stopped. I took moderation off about an hr. ago and a comment came through. Sorry for all the confusion or if I may have missed your comment sent before 10 am today. Hope it all straightens out....Bummer.

Salad Fixins-Vegetable Still Life

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my contribution to this week's DPW Challenge. It was hosted by the fine artist, Diane Mannion.

This week's challenge was to paint a vegetable from life. Direct painting. Take a break from those photos. Not only will this be good practice but healthy too. Really look at your subject, study it closely and you'll see colors and shapes you never noticed before. Have fun with it and when you're finished... eat your subject.
I did as instructed and the resulting salad was delicious!

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Proverbs 16: ² All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Easter 2011

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

I wish you all a happy and blessed Easter. Please remember the true meaning. Keep love and hope alive in your hearts.....The best is yet to come.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Luke 23:34 NIV
Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.

Mark 16: ⁴ And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.

Chick Trio

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

This is my submission to Carol Marine's DPW Challenge. As per the challenge, this is a split complementary of yellow orange, blue, and purple. This applies to the colors of the objects or areas within the painting...not the palette.
I know that the principle is sound. But I'm not too sure about the result I achieved. Will have to evaluate it more/longer.

I like the symbolism of chicks at this time of year. The promise of New Life at Spring! Easter! God's Promise to us!

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^{Luke 23:23} But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed. ²⁴ So Pilate decided to grant their demand. ²⁵ He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.

In My Father's Footsteps-Landscape

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Oil on 7x5 hardboard.

This is my submission to the DPW Challenge. This week, it's hosted by that tremendous artist, Carol Marine.

Loved piling the paint on with brush and palette knife.

This picture struck me as a road that had been walked by generations of people. Each traveling in their own thoughts, yet all very similar. Then I thought of the many roads Jesus traveled...and how we all should strive to walk in His light.
Such are the confessions of my meandering mind...Lol.

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^{Luke 24:32} They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

Flower Power-Water Lilies

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Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

This is for the WDE at Wet Canvas. Jean supplied the reference photo.

This is in answer to the super color challenge put forth on WDE this week. It's something I've had my in mind for quite a long time. To add extreme color, including color "surprises", to a subject to energize and "excite" the painting.
I really enjoyed the process.

The hardboard first received a coat of black gesso. Love that black gesso...I call it "black magic" the way it makes colors "pop" from the very first strokes.
I used a palette knife and brush for the textured paint.
Thanks for stopping by!

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^{James 4:3} When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

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News Flash!

I just won a watercolor monoprint from a great artist and blogging friend, Helen Percy Lystra! I already have a spot picked out for it and anxiously await it's arrival in the mail!
Check out her inspiring blog, folks!

At Wood's Edge-Landscape

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Oil on 7x5 archival canvas panel.

This is for the WDE at Wet Canvas. Jean graciously supplied the reference photos.
When it came to landscape paintings, I always kinda drug my feet. I'd think... too much information/details in front of me. Always a bit intimidated I suppose.

But more and more I see that there's a world of creative freedom when doing a landscape.
With that in mind, I handled this one almost like an abstract (something else I tend to avoid..). In doing this one, I felt the freedom! Just being involved in balancing colors...line control...achieving a focal point. Just PAINTING!

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^{John 14:15} “If you love me, keep my commands.