Cloud by Day

~ Cloud by Day ~

Today I bring my most recent piece to you. It is done in a rather different style than my usual one. I have been experimenting with the technique of dusting which I used in particular for the clouds and the flame, but
also for some parts of the ground. I am really excited with the result and will add this technique to my toolbox for future use. 

The picture shows the path of searching in a  place of dryness and aridity - a desert. However, there is a way through - even though only faintly visible - and  the presence of a guiding light. There are also the clouds above with the promise of rain bringing fruitfulness and some glimmers of green throughout the dry land as little glimpses of hope. The title Cloud by Day resonates with this wandering through the desert. A place that always reminds me of God's faithfulness, even and especially in  difficult times.

~For the LORD your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.~

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Deuteronomy 2:7 NASV

~You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book?~

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Psalms 56:8 NASV



by Charis Gabriel

Celebrating Life

This picture just got ready in time for my Mum's birthday. I have been trying to express a 'thank you' for what she has done for me as I grew up and through the years since. It is also a thank you to the Great Live Giver for all that he gave us in and through our mother-daughter relationship. 

~ Jar of Clay ~

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us."

2.Cor 4:7

The second picture I am posting today has been finished about a year ago, it's about time to be introduced! 
I tried to captivate the joy, excitement and unpredictability that all come with a new beginning, as well as trying to express the dynamic motion needed to keep in balance while allowing the new to invade the well known and comfortable place of the present. The symbol is that of a spontaneous and intuitive dance.

~ The Dance ~

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 

 hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar: 

Not in entire forgetfulness and not in utter nakedness, 

but trailing clouds of glory do we come 

from God, who is our home. 

William Wordsworth