Sandi Hester

Paintings by Sandi Hester

Month: September, 2008

September 24, 2008

Envelopes From Africa

Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples.  I Chronicles 16:24

This is one of those “old into new” projects I talked about in a previous post.  I took envelopes from letters that were sent to me from friends in Africa and glued and taped them together and painted this map of Africa on them.  I love how you can see notes that were written to us on the envelopes, postage stamps from Africa, and the beautiful pink color of one of the envelopes – I think it adds some character to the painting and preserves some precious things to me in a very neat way.  I added things on the map that are unique to Africa and to some of my friends that are there.  You’ll see some of the creatures and critters (love and hated) from Africa, some of the people, houses, trees, air planes used to bring in supplies and people, and even a hospital that our friends worked at.  If you click on the main picture you can see a larger version of it (after clicking on the large picture, if you’ll place your cursor at the bottom right hand corner a box will come up with arrows on it – click it and  you can see it even larger – all the pictures on this blog should do that) and you can also click on the thumbnail pictures to see some details of the map.

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September 19, 2008

One Man’s Treasure

The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field.  When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.  Matthew 13:44

“We measure the worth of a hidden treasure by what we will gladly sell to buy it.  If we will sell all, then we measure the worth as supreme.  If we will not, what we have is treasured more.”  – John Piper commenting on the verse above

‘One Man’s Treasure’ is a cute little store in Hendersonville that is now selling my paintings.  I’m excited to see how the Lord uses this – it’s certainly out of my comfort zone, but we’ll see what He does with it.  I love the name of the store and it makes me think of the verse above.  A man actually came into the store one day while I was there and said he came in to find the one man’s treasure.  Hmmmm, how interesting.  I wonder if he would find my Jesus to be a treasure worth all. 

I hope you’ll stop in at One Man’s Treasure – I think you’ll find it worth stopping by.  They are having an Open House Tuesday, September 23rd from 10am – 8pm.  Their new location is 711 East Main Street, Suite 108 in Hendersonville.  They are located in the same building as the Mexican restaurant Casa Vieja.  I’ll be there most of the day painting, so stop in and say hi.  You’ll also be able to register to win this original watercolor painted by me :).

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September 16, 2008

The Old Into New

…the old has gone, the new has come!  2 Corinthians 5:17

I haven’t posted lately because I’ve had my head in a paper for school, and because I’ve been working on two large paintings that have been taking FOREVER.  One of them I’ll show you shortly (or whenever I finish it) and the other one you’ll have to wait until Christmas season.  I’m really taking the above verse way out of context for this post, but I was just playing around with words when thinking of how to describe what I’ve been doing lately in my art.  I’ve been taking some “old” things – like old paper, letters, envelopes, etc. that I’ve found at antique stores and that have been given to me – and painting on them, turning them into “new” art.    Below is an example of a quick sketch of a dove I painted on an old check register.  I love this old paper – it gives the painting some neat character.  I can’t wait to show you the big painting I’ve been working on using this same technique!  Hopefully I’ll have it to post soon!

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September 5, 2008

The Whistle of God

I will whistle for them and gather them in.  Surely I will redeem them…Though I scatter them among the peoples, yet in distant lands they will remember Me.  Zechariah 10:8-9 (taken from the NASB & NIV)

This is for my friend Amy who is in Africa.  She is wrapping up her time there and will be returning to the states soon.  My prayer is that the people there will hear the whistle of God and draw near to Him.  We are also praying that as the team leaves to return to the states, that those who know Him will remember Him.  Lord, gather them to Yourself – make Your Name great in Africa!  Amy sent me several pictures to paint from and this is one I was really drawn to.

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