December | 2008 | Sandi Hester

December 31, 2008

Sketches – Tea Pot

I haven’t posted much lately because I haven’t painted much for a couple reasons – we’ve been very busy and I haven’t had much inspiration. Sometimes I feel like I’ve forgotten how to paint. It seems like I go in spurts – very inspired and paint like crazy – to not having anything to paint and nothing inspiring me. You may look at the painting below and think something must have inspired me to paint those colorful orange tomatoes and tea pot. I was inspired but not in the regular way. There’s an oil painter whose work I really love named Aaron Lifferth. He has a great style – very loose and his color choices are beautiful. Since I didn’t have anything to paint one day I thought I would try to replicate one of his paintings. It was a lot of fun and I actually did that with three of his paintings. They were done very quickly in my sketch book. This was the first one of three that I did. Aaron gave me permission to post these. You can see his original oil painting which is much better here. I’ll post the other two sketches I did of his paintings later this week.

I’m hoping I’ll get lots of inspiration next week. We leave Wednesday for a ski trip in Utah – we are very pumped!!! If I don’t have any paintings turn out to post hopefully I’ll at least have some good pictures of our trip to post… so stay tuned, because I hope to get back to posting much more!

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December 9, 2008

Nativity

The Lord gave me the idea to do a nativity painting this Christmas and this is what He poured forth from my brush. He gave me the idea to add some very important Scripture to the bottom of the painting to be used as a devotional tool for families. The Scriptures are all prophecies (beginning with the very first prophecy about Jesus – Genesis 3:15) about Jesus’ birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and the final Scripture is a prophecy about His second coming (Revelation 21). My prayer is that this will be a tool for families to use throughout the month of December to get into the Word together. Sometimes the only place people know to turn to during this time of year are the gospels – which are a great place to read, don’t get me wrong – but there’s SOOOOOOO much more about Jesus and what He came to do throughout the WHOLE bible – especially in the Old Testament. So, please feel free to use this list of Scripture and sit down with your family this Christmas season and savor what was foretold about Jesus’ life and death LONG before He ever stepped on earth. The details of these prophecies are mind boggling. I pray you would find His Word to be sweeter than honey – maybe you’ll even “taste” some things you’ve never seen before in His precious Word! Merry Christmas!

Here are the Scriptures that are at the bottom of the painting:

Genesis 3:15
Micah 5:1-2
Isaiah 40:1-5
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 9:6-7
Zachariah 9:9
Isaiah 53
Isaiah 50:6
Psalm 22:14-18
Isaiah 11
Isaiah 61:1-3
Revelation 21:1-7

You can click on the picture to see a larger version of it.

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December 2, 2008

The Third Musketeer Is Here!

My sister Amanda had her 3rd baby today! To announce his birth I thought I’d share something I’ve done for each of my sister’s pregnancies. Each pregnancy I’ve nicknamed the baby before we knew if it was a boy or a girl, and I’ve made a jar that represents that nickname and baby to give to my sister. They are in order from oldest to newest: Aidan (Jelly Bean – very appropriate since he has a love affair with anything sugar); Hannah (Lima Bean); and the third runner up (3rd Mini Musketeer) Houston. Houston weighs 8 lbs and 20 and 1/4 inches long (not so “mini” after all). Houston and Amanda are doing great – Congratulations Jason and Amanda!!!