The latest painting is now available in my Etsy shop! For each print sold, $10 will be donated to Rescue Haiti’s Children.

“I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food” was created in watercolor and colored pencil. The prints are reproduced with toner on Archival-quality, 80lb bright white card stock. Print will not have watermark, and will come with artist’s hand-written signature. Please note that the coloring may slightly vary due to your monitor.

Print size: 8″×10″ on an easily-framed 8 1/2″×11″ sheet.

Click here to order your copy!

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For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
I was naked and you clothed me,
I was sick and you visited me,
I was in prison and you came to me.’
- Matthew 25:35-36 (ESV)

“I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me” is now available
for sale in my Etsy shop!

For each sale, $10 will be donated to Rescue Haiti’s Children.

“I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me” was created in ink and watercolor. The prints are reproduced with toner on Archival-quality, 80lb bright white card stock. Print will not have watermark, and will come with artist’s hand-written signature. Please note that the coloring may slightly vary due to your monitor.

Print size: 8″x10″ on an easily-framed 8 1/2″x11″ sheet.

Click here to order your copy!

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The first painting in my series to donate to Rescue Haiti’s Children is titled,
“I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me.”

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5″x7″ Watercolor painting by Breezy Brookshire

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I was left in the rubble, forgotten by the dead,
Amid the stench and smoke, I laid broken and unfed.

You knew not my kindred or family of birth,
But redeemed eyes saw that our Creator gave us worth.

He led you by my dying cries and rushed to set me free.
Though I was but a stranger, you loved and welcomed me.

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(detail)

I will be posting pictures of the paintings here on my blog as each one is created.  Once I have completed all six they will be available to buy individually in my Etsy shop. To buy on Etsy, you will need an Etsy account and a PayPal account, both of which are very easy to set up.

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For I was hungry and you gave me food,
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,
I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
I was naked and you clothed me,
I was sick and you visited me,
I was in prison and you came to me.’
- Matthew 25:35-36 (ESV)

Slowly adding color.

Requires patience.

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“Snow Birds” starts as a sketch.

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Warning: Distraught, emotional artist writing. You may read hyperbole; laugh if you must, but pity me in silence if you can.

Mostly, I am not brave. Or as imaginative as I ought to be. I mean, I am an artist, and you would think there would be more of an adventurous spirit about me . . .

But alas, it is only a small, small seed trying to break trough the crust of a currently tortuous inability to appreciate watercolor.

And so I let myself think that moving straight to another medium would help.

But praise the Lord! He will not let me go so soon. “Look inside,” says He as I pass a certain book.

A certain book on color theory.

The cover of a deep, deep well is peeled back. And no dry mud is found at the bottom. It is full of resounding depths of help. Teaching me things I only thought I could be left in a muddle over for the rest of my life.

Ignoring the wondrous properties of watercolor and unlovingly shoving it about the rough paper will get me no where. Perhaps it can be rescued yet, but I must be brave and see it through.

Be brave and tread the depths of color. Be brave and admit that I don’t know as much as I think.

Start at the beginning, work monochromatic color schemes - be adventurous.

I need strength from Him to be Brave and Adventurous.

Thank you, Lord, for rescuing me from discouragement and despair.

For a while now I’ve been in a quandary over an alternative medium for using colored pencils in my watercolors. After many days of staring curiously into space, I had a little idea.

I pulled out my little-used Derwent Graphitint pencils, and found just the look I was going for. (In this drawing I used Cocoa.) I like the sketchy quality and fluidity of the lines, and I think it’ll work well until I can really get into oils.

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Welcome, one and all! Today’s the day that our big mysterious project will be revealed. There have been many guesses, and a few were very close if not spot-on.

Emily Rose and I have been making. . . drum roll please!

Our very own Daughters of His Story Paper Doll Series!

Each collection includes two women from history and three changes of dress each. It also includes the stands, a storage pocket, two time line portraits, and a short biographical sketch of each lady.

We wanted to provide young girls with something they could play with and be encouraged in femininity and godliness. They are modestly dressed paper dolls that mothers can give their daughters without feeling the least bit uneasy.

We’re still working on getting the website up and running so you can buy your own copies. We’ll let you in on that soon, too!

You may be wondering about a few pictures: What does a basket, mixing bowl, and brushes have to do with paper dolls? Aside from the ladies all being hospitable homemakers, I needed a hand model for all the different dresses!

The confusion between and the “C1, C2, C3″ on Emily Rose’s blog and my “CCC” recipe was definitely an accident. Not only did we not realize we both used CCC, but we didn’t notice that Collection One, Collection Two, and Collection Three would be confused with Chocolate Chip Cookies until it was too late!

And the “invitations”. . . well, when I said, “You’ll need one of these,” I meant the scissors. :)

Update: Another clue at Emily’s blog, and Momma’s blog. ;)

Now, what could I be doing?