Patricia

Pencil

"But we were gentle among you,
just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children."

(I sketched my sister recently.)

Sketch at NGV

This is my sketch /paint in of Alvaro Guevara's
'Mrs Fairbairn' (Nancy Cunard)
Oil on Canvas, 1919
residing at the National Gallery Victoria.

'Rejoice always.'
1 Thessalonians 5:16

Countess Magenta

Watercolour, ink, collage 

1 Peter : 6-7

'Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you." 

Countess Therese

Proverbs 15:26
'The thoughts of the wicked are an 
abomination to the Lord,
But the words of the righteous are His delight.'

Cecilia

Proverbs 13:21
'Evil pursues sinners
But to the righteous,
good shall be repaid.'

ForGet WhAt's BeHinD

Gouache/pen/collage

Philippians 3:13-14
'Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do,
forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,
I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.'

Lottie

Jonah 4:2
' So he prayed to the Lord, and said,
"Ah, Lord was not this what I said when I was still in my country?
Therefore I fled previously to Tarshish;
for I know that You are a gracious and merciful God,
slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness,
One who relents from doing harm."

ViSiTiNg PaPuA NeW GuiNeA

Philippians 2:14
'Do all things without murmuring and disputing.'

Mrs McKillop

Philippians 1:6
'Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.'

Patti..young girl

The good Lord gave me a dream to show me I was in error...
I was so grateful to him.
And the next evening I stumbled on this scripture....

Psalm 19:12
"Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults."

Lee Lin Chin

charcoal

Art class today...
I think I have made Lee Lin younger than her years...

"But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to
lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
Matthew 5:28

Summer Joy

chalk pastel

'Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,
And He who formed you from the womb:
"I am the Lord, who makes all things ,
Who stretches out the heavens all alone,
Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;"'
Isaiah 44:24

Old Vienna

oil

Proverbs 20:19
'He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with one who flatters with his lips.'

The Man

acrylic and pastel

Isaiah 43:18
‘Remember ye not the former things,
neither consider the things of old.’

Positano Summer

watercolour and gouache

Hebrews 11:1
"Now faith is the substance of things
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Patricia's FLoWers

Acrylic

Song of Solomon 2:12
"The flowers appear on the earth;
the time of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle
is heard in our land."

The SittIng Room

Watercolour and Ink

Ecclesiastes 2:24
"There is nothing better for a man,
than that he should eat and drink,
and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God."

Jonah and the Whale

Acrylic

"But as for me I would seek God,
And to God I would commit my cause-
Who does great things,
and unsearchable,
Marvellous things without number."
Job 5:8-9

Not sure for how much longer will I even be able to have this blog
big bro apparently is going to clamp down on bloggers .....
freedom of speech is under threat now all over the world....

Self Portrait

Acrylic

"What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you."
Job 13:2

DJ's Birthday Card

Proverbs 14:23
"In all labour there is profit,
but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury."

Whoops... I made his nose way too large...
and he says his glasses are upside down...?!

The Orangery at Ham Yard Hotel ,Soho

I have not been in this hotel..
I saw a picture in a magazine of this room in this
modern establishment...
The actual room looks SO much better than I my simple painting.

Proverbs 8;13
"The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverse mouth I hate."

Wahgunyah

Proverbs 15:33
"The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom,
And before honour is humility."

My plein air...out in Wahgunyah on a rainy afternoon...
had to stop painting because of the rain.

Strawberry Fish

1 Chronicles 17:21-22
"And who is like Your people Israel,
the one nation on the earth
whom God went to redeem for Himself
as a people - to make for Yourself a name
by great and awesome deeds,
by driving out nations from before Your people
whom You redeemed from Egypt.

For You have made Your people Israel
Your very own people forever;
and , You Lord,
have become their God."

Chinese King and Queen

1Peter 4:3-4
"For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles,
when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable
adolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you."

Lucy

"Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
Ecclesiastes 7:16

my gmail pic...love patterns..so fun... William has this one

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera

......... inspired by their wedding photograph.
Did you Know?
that
it says in Psalm 96 verse 10 that
"the Lord reigneth"
and that in verses 12-13:
"Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein:
then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
before the Lord: for he cometh,
for He cometh to judge the earth:
He shall judge the world with righteousness,
and the people with His truth."

400.....posts now

Gustav Mahler

Psalm 150:5
"Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:
praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals."

Port Fairy Lighthouse

Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
and He will make your paths straight."