Welcome to the Inside of My Heart

Well guys, I feel like it's time to take another step in this relationship. We've been friends for a while, right? I think it's time to share some stuff I don't share with everyone I know, only the the best of friends... like you. So... here's a little picture of what I love to do...and what I spend a good bit of my free time doing.

Dining Room = Mary's Art Studio

I started painting a lot in my room, only to result in lots of headaches and funny paint smells in my clothes. So I moved downstairs to the dining room so that I could share the wealth of paint fumes. These are a few of the paintings I've done over the past year, beginning with my final semester of college when the whole "I think I'll paint," "Why not get college credit for it," and "No, I can't go get coffee tonight. I'll be in the studio. I have to finish my painting before morning."

Third time to use oil paint... On the left is a master's copy of a Georgia O'Keefe painting..just in bright, more fun colors. No offense, Georgia. My style is just a little more bold than blacks and blues.  


To the right is my fourth assignment in Painting 101: Combining the organic with the non-organic (in relation to shapes). My teacher dared me to attempt "creepy" by doing these two canvases. Apart they are not as creepy, but together, ehh...

 I painted these in August for our apartment. The one on the left was created by accident in about 30 minutes... Sometimes, art just happens.

Here's the last one I finished on the left...it took forever for some reason. Inspiration: Music and the freedom that it creates. On the right: a new one I started last week. Inspiration: a picture a friend took... It, too, reminds me of freedom. I've been walking down this road of freedom concepts for a while... and what freedom in Christ in this world looks like. When I think about the feeling of freedom, my heart goes back to these things: music and being outside... among many other things. What do you think about when you think about freedom? I may need some inspiration when I run out of ideas...