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  • Holy Fire in the First Cathedral

    Revisiting a theme for a new painting. I’m in a different mood and this painting’s bright colors reflect this. Working on a painting over several days allows me to build my ability to concentrate over longer periods for reading or listening to conversations.

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  • Inspired by Autumn Leaves

    I returned from a spiritual retreat at Mount Eagle, at which we studied the Enneagram. This is our United Methodist camp site dedicated to holy listening. Of the nine spiritual personality types, I happen to be a Four: The Creative. I’m “The Sensitive, Introspective Type: Expressive, Dramatic, Self-Absorbed, and Temperamental.” Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and…

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  • Portraits in the Style of the Modern Masters

    “ Good artists copy, great artists steal,” Pablo Picasso once said. If we’re going to learn art, we should learn from the masters, and not from ordinary purveyors of paint. In art school, we often copied the old master paintings and drawings to learn their techniques and develop those traditional styles of execution so we…

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