Lovely Friday

Happy Friday!

"Lovely Friday" by Juri Zaech

I hope yours is lovely so far.

I'll be spending most of my day today at Artistic Portland.  I'm still thrilled to have a home there for my art.  It's an inspiring place to spend all day in.

Wandering around and looking at all the lovely hand made things.

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Like I mentioned before, I want to get better at lettering.  This week I practiced some faux-calligraphy (using this tutorial).

Making art out of scripture is a good way for me to meditate on the words, so that is also something I want to do more of.  Plus  I finished that drawing in one day which is a mega-bonus--it usually takes me at least a week to complete a drawing. 

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ONE more lovely thing I want to share.  I've already mentioned the art Ryan gave me for Christmas, but I haven't shared what I gave him (we love art in this house.)  I found this artist by browsing on Etsy. Her name is Julie Filipenko and she based in Tel Aviv, Israel.  I gave Ryan prints of these two artworks.

"The Lion Whisperer"

"Velvet Bones" Inspired by Edgar Allan Poes' quote "Let me glimpse inside your velvet bones".

We love both of them. Its a great tradition, getting each other art for Christmas.  Except we might soon run out of wall space..