Even the oh-so-everyday things ...

So inundated are we with good and helpful and interesting and funny articles passed along to us every day on the internet, I usually don’t feel like I need to add to the flood. 

But I really want to share this one from Tim Challies that I read this morning:

NOT JUST THE BAD THINGS by Tim Challies 

about the Biblical promise given to us in Romans 8:28 that “God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”

A very encouraging promise in the bad times. But also a promise for the good times, and for the (as Mr. Challies puts it) “oh-so-normal” everyday-ness of our lives as well.

Ray: comedy felinified.

This cat ...

... absolutely ...

cracks. 

me. 

up.

Raindrops are falling on my head ... (in a good way)

Hallelujah! After weeks and weeks (and weeks!) of dry, 

we finally had a whole day of refreshing, quenching, drenching rain.

If you listen real close, you can hear the whole pasture going, “Aaaaaahhhhh.”

More progress on a big dog painting ...

... that is, a painting of a big dog. The painting itself isn't that particularly large.

Today I painted the fringed throw draped over the back of the sofa. Trying to show its nubbly texture. I used mostly two of my favorite Old Holland reds: Alizarin Crimson Lake Extra and (are you ready for this?) Rose Dore Madder Lake Antique Extra. With a little magenta on the cool end and vermilion on the warm end, and in the shadows some black, bright violet and French ultramarine blue along with, yes, just a scoche of turquoise and Old Holland golden green just to keep things lively.

More progress on a Great Pyrenees portrait

WORK-IN-PROGRESS • 16x16 napscape oil painting of a Great Pyrenees mix

Got a little more done on this today. It was fun doing this miniature version of a California landscape I painted a few years ago, which is now sitting on top of an old non-working cast iron radiator behind the sofa where Andy is catching an afternoon nap.

Andy!

WORK-IN-PROGRESS detail:

I have a few irons in the fire lately, but I did manage to make a little more progress on Andy today.

Love that big ol’ sweetie pie!

A sneak peek at a new great pyrenees dog painting ...

WORK IN PROGRESS • 16 x 16 inches

Yesterday, I finished the underpainting on this new “Napscape” of our Andy, catching a snooze on the parlor sofa. I’ll post more progress pics tonight.

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday afternoon!