Revisiting an older Journal - Breathe - 09-02-96

You heard my voice before you were born.
You heard my voice in the womb.
It was my voice you heard say divide now,
And my voice you heard say divide again.

You heard my voice say, grow a heart now, grow eyes now,
Grow fingers and toes.
It was my voice you heard say BREATHE
When you first saw the light of this world.

You heard my voice say, Laugh when you were happy,
Cry when you were hungry, Scream out when you were afraid.

You heard my voice before the words of this world covered it like a blanket.

You hear my voice.
It is my voice you hear say I CAN.

~KRG, 09-02-96, Journey, 2000

...When you first saw the light of this world.

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Remembering the families and friends of Bruce and Daniel,
both taken this month under different circumstances.

Change in Plans

Just Let Go - Sketch Journal

Illustration - Past Work

Works created for LifeWay Christian Resources.

From an 8 page teaching project about forgiveness.

Created for a nursery door poster.

At the time I created these, I was more focused on meeting deadlines than archiving work. These are scanned prints left over from my own work-in-process evaluation.

Works in progress

This started out as a warm up sketch from a photo,
but I kinda liked the little guy.
I plan to take this one a little further,
thus posted as Work in Process.


Progress on The Tables.
It has been a while since I created a large pastel, so I am feeling my way through, and questioning myself through the phases more than I would like.
Seeing the work on screen helps.
I see things here that are less obvious at my work table.

From my sketch journal - A Gift

This is an excerpt from an old sketch journal (1999). "A Gift".
Feeling overwhelmed, and remembering scenes from the movie "Phenomenon," I took the few minutes of a work break to absorb the view of a bird enjoying flight.
It was a rich few minutes for me - the places my imagination went.

Nature can bring
such grace.....

Work in process, The Tables at The Narrows

Last week I sorted through some of my photos of the Narrows of the Harpeth, and pulled this pic as reference for my next painting.

...and began this work late last week with a
rough color sketch to study design and color.

The work is in process now, and will be 18x24 pastel on sanded "pastelbord."

I washed in a base color using distilled turpentine and magenta pastel. Most likely, none of the magenta will show after the pastel is layered over, but from past experience this base coat will add vibrancy to the finished work. *

* "...but Irish linen does something to their walk..." - Florenz Ziegfeld

Now the fun begins!!!!!

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A couple of years ago I uploaded a slide show of pics taken at the Narrows (includes this source pic).
The slideshow is available at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS3RN-bHFUw