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Tag: small wonders

Finding Our Rhythm – Epiphany

Posted on March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 by vondadrees

“Finding Our Rhythm” continues with Epiphany. Once when I was teaching a Small Wonders oil painting class at the Grunewald… Read more Finding Our Rhythm – Epiphany

February 9

Posted on February 9, 2022 by vondadrees

It’s hard to imagine what was going on in the heart of Olympic alpine skier, Mikaela Shiffrin, as she sat… Read more February 9

February 8

Posted on February 8, 2022 by vondadrees

When I was a kid, during the summers my dad served as a quartermaster on an army base. My family… Read more February 8

February 3

Posted on February 3, 2022 by vondadrees

With one week remaining in this seven year retrospective, there is deep love being stirred by the memories of creating… Read more February 3

January 28

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 by vondadrees

I wrote this haiku in 2020 to accompany the day’s leaf oil painting: As light shrouds a leaf, the silence… Read more January 28

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Instagram holds many seasons of my creative contemplation. It continues to be a place I share fresh paint & ink, and I'd be delighted to meet you there!

“Let no one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.” -Oodgeroo Noonucal Every eight years the dance of Venus and Earth create the pattern called the Rose of Venus. You can see a video of their dance here -https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fHl541uaw. Still pondering the colors for my Pentecost image, especially the area under the curves that is currently yellow in the first sketch. Although next in my liturgical lineup of images is Pentecost, today I share my green Ordinary Time one as a way to honor St. Patrick. “The paradox of hospitality is that it wants to create emptiness— a friendly emptiness where strangers can enter and discover themselves as created free; free to sing their own songs, speak their own languages, dance their own dances…” -Henri Nouwen Before Fibonacci came Pingala, an ancient Indian poet and mathematician (c. 3rd-2nd century BCE.) Pingala studied poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit prosody. Here is the image in process for Good Friday. I scribbled a prayer in the margins: YHWH, forgive our lack of imagination. There is rich visual imagery when remembering the Passion Week. I recently learned that there’s an art word, pentimento, that is “the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, strokes painted over.” It’s also the Italian word for repentance.

You can also view my work on Pinterest. Here's an image from my recent journaling through The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story.

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