In Need of Grace to Paint and to Give
Why do I torture myself so? I ask myself this every time I start a new portrait. The beginning seems so easy: ideas grace the mind…an outline drawn…the hollow of […]
Author Archives: JoDee Luna
Promethean: Dare to Create
Promethean, a mixed media, envisions creativity’s fruitfulness masked in human form. Like the mixed media’s namesake, Prometheus, we receive fire, inspiration from heaven, and make something beneficial for humanity when […]
Awaiting Inspiration for 2015
I sit in my art room, waiting for inspiration… An idea A purpose worthy of my time A face to grace the empty canvas The New Year dawns, and I […]
Creativity as an Act of Worship and Sharing
Maybe, like The Little Drummer Boy, each one of us has a song to play as an act of worship… I have no gift to bring… That’s fit to give […]
The Seeker, an Acrylic Portrait
The Seeker is an acrylic portrait with penetrating eyes that search through your soul. A friend, Renee Elkins, expressed the mesmerizing effect she has on you: “Beautiful…I feel like she […]
A Self-Imposed Silence
The morning sun creeps up the wall of cloudy blue until it peeks through branches. I sit in my art room in silence. Eyes squint from the glare of new […]
Fresh Starts: Invitations to Change
My favorite part of a painting is the beginning. It’s fun to see a face form on canvas—kind of like meeting a person for the first time. My recent painting […]
Warrior Princess Mask Featured in Somerset Studio
Today I went to Barnes and Nobles with my husband and noticed the current issue of Somerset Studio magazine. I had submitted a piece of artwork last spring for this […]
The Traveler: An Acrylic Painting and Inspirational Message
Have you every felt like a lonely traveler on a sojourn through life—always searching yet never finding what will once and for all fill that empty ache in your heart? […]
Unconditional Surrender
“I put no conditions on my surrender.” I mumbled those words after wrestling with something I feared God wanted me to do, but I dreaded. “Lord, you’re really not asking […]
Refrain from the Identical 