Is it just imagination, or are the birds extra happy about spring this year?
For the birds, life as usual. Prayers for all during this time.
Sometimes I am asked to paint an image that someone found in past sales. Though I cannot do exactly the same, I try to get near to the same. So if this one looks familiar, that is the reason.
This was completed for a customer in Germany.
I have been asked to paint Jesus walking on water a few times; this was another small study.
Compared to the previous post, this one was just a quick fun sketch in paint.
I enjoy many different requests from others. This one, of a 1920’s bride was especially sweet.
I have put some of my sold paintings into note card form. I thought I would share one or the other here.
Yes, it’s yellow tulips again. I never tire of them.
I am Sister Maresa Lilley, a member of the Sisters of Notre Dame, located in Chardon, Ohio, USA. For many years, I have enjoyed a passion that permits me to reflect upon simple reality with a brush in hand. To capture a simple essence on canvas and to discover inherent beauty is a daily immersion. While busy with teaching, or administration, or other various roles of my past, I found the quiet pursuit of pushing creamy oil paint into some kind of meaningful arrangement a soulful refreshment. I hope that through this blog, you also can enjoy a fresh look at grace and charm in the ordinary.
The Sisters of Notre Dame of Chardon, Ohio, belong to an international congregation of more than two thousand apostolic women religious. We are one in mind and one in heart for the transformation of the world in Christ. 