A client saw a small painting of a cardinal that is in my online shop and asked for a bigger version. I am awaiting the word of acceptance.
Paintings
For inspiration, I am still using my photos of last year’s flowers while awaiting this year’s.
Last year’s peonies begged me to put them into paint this year.
A Blessed Good Friday to all.
Don’t you just love these fluffy balls? I like them in any color.
Tomorrow begins the solemn holy days of reflecting on Jesus’ sacrifice for us. Palm Sunday is tomorrow, and come what may, we follow Jesus through darkness into light. There is artistic license here in combining the day of palms and hosannas with the day of crowning with thorns and death. In His mind it was all one saving event.
I love muted tones, but it is an easy launch for me into riotous color.
Is it just imagination, or are the birds extra happy about spring this year?
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. 