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Tag Archives: inspiration

Life Branding: Focused Fresh Starts

Featuredby JoDee Luna 3 Comments

There’s something special about the new year with its fresh starts and blank canvases. For a moment, you hear life’s urging to brush your dreams across the space of possibility. […]

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life skills, New Year's Resolutions

Surreal Portrait: A Frustrated Artist’s Reflection

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Painted one year before Benjamin Berlin’s death at the age of 48, Surreal Portrait seems to portray a fractured mind—bequeathed with possibilities and yet denied closures. As I sit and ponder this […]

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inspiration, surrealism

The Messenger, an Acrylic Painting by JoDee Luna

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The Messenger depicts Jesus, the Messiah who brings hope, mercy, and grace to humankind. The Messenger’s eyes are the focal point of the painting, searching the heart of the viewer for […]

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acrylic painting, Christianity, portrait painting

The Ebb and Flow of Artistic Ambition

April 3, 2015by JoDee Luna 1 Comment

Every creative experiences the ebb and flow of artistic ambition. Whatever your creative expression is, you feel the phenomenon. One day you’ve got it—enthusiasm bubbles over and your art form […]

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figurative painting, inspiration, portrait painting

In Need of Grace to Paint and to Give

January 8, 2015by JoDee Luna 3 Comments

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 […]

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acrylic painting, figurative painting, portrait painting

A Self-Imposed Silence

October 25, 2014by JoDee Luna 3 Comments

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 […]

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inspiration

The Traveler: An Acrylic Painting and Inspirational Message

September 13, 2014by JoDee Luna 7 Comments

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? […]

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acrylic painting, inspiration

Unconditional Surrender

August 23, 2014by JoDee Luna 8 Comments

“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 […]

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mixed media, poetry, surrender

Blossom

July 22, 2014by JoDee Luna 13 Comments

Welcome to the first post of the new Refrain from the Identical website.

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acrylic painting

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