He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. Mark 4:39
I painted this for my Dad for his birthday. There have been some stresses with work this year for my Dad, and I wanted to remind him that during the “storms” of life the wind and the waves still know His voice. Happy Birthday Daddy – I love you!!!
Have you entered the storehouses of the snow… Job 38:22
It’s that time of year around our house – ski season – where the magazines start coming in and Grady starts talking a whole lot about planning our ski trip(s). It’s the time of year where Grady has skiing on his mind ALL the time. I painted this first painting from a picture I saw in one of his ski magazines – I was drawn to the skis and to the lanterns on the side of the building. The second painting was more of a quick sketch I did – I wanted to try a snow technique in painting so I did a quick background to put the snow on top of.
Grady’s watching the weather channel right now – that’s another thing that we do a lot more of when ski season is upon us – Grady starts filling me in every time it snows somewhere. We would watch the weather channel 24/7 if it was up to Grady – he LOVES it – he even refers to the people on the weather channel like they are his friends – like he knows them personally or something. There’s someone new on there tonight and he was wondering if she was a fill-in for Alexandria who is pregnant – he got all excited and said, “maybe she had her baby!”. I don’t even know who Alexandria is, much less that she’s pregnant!!! Ok, this is funny – Grady just proofed this post for me and informed me that her name is Alexandra… I spelled it wrong – oh brother!!!
“Come to me, all you who are weary…and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28
The Lord definitely gave us some sweet time of rest at the Warden’s cabin this last weekend. Grady and I fished and painted our hearts out. No TV, phones, or computers – it was perfect!!! The Warden’s were very gracious to let us use their cabin – it was a very restful time – – THANK YOU GUYS!!!!. Tommy also let Grady borrow his kayak – Grady had a blast with that thing (you can see it in the first painting of their cabin). Here are a few paintings and sketches I did while resting at their lake cabin.
This is a painting I did of the Warden’s lake cabin and Tommy’s kayak – like how I got the kayak in there, Tommy???
This is the marina that is down from their cabin – it was really cute – when I saw it I knew I would be painting it.
Colorful fishing boats.
This was my favorite to paint. There was this old factory or old mill down from their cabin that I passed to drop Grady off at the river. I loved it so much that I pulled in one day and just sat there in the parking lot and painted it. I may paint this one again because it was so much fun doing those old buildings.
This one needs some explaining – and I’m second guessing myself for even putting this one on here. One day while I was painting I heard a loud boom and I thought a log had fallen on the cabin until I saw feathers flying everywhere. I ran outside and saw that a fairly good size bird flew right into the window and it was lying there dead. I quickly called Grady and told him about all the excitement and he told me not to get too close to the bird because sometimes they just knock themselves out – I’m sure he was picturing me bending over to get a good look at the bird and it coming to and flying in my face while I screamed my head off… well I assured him it was dead because blood was running from his little head (Tommy and Debbie don’t worry we discarded the bird into the woods – there is a big blob of “stuff” on your upper window though). So, here’s where it could get a little weird for some of you – I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to paint this pretty little bird (I mean, how often do you get to look at a bird for so long and that up-close???), so I grabbed my paints and plopped down and painted him – he was so pretty! I did scream and almost fall out of my chair at one point because I thought I saw the bird move 🙂 – but I think my mind was playing tricks on me – thanks Grady!
Sandi Hester 
