#handmadeart — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #handmadeart, aggregated by home.social.
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5 - My 2nd ever #teapot! Wasn't too keen on how the #glaze turned out so here it is as bisqueware and greenware
6 - My 1st successful plate (successful 'cause the 1st time I made one during the Winter session I accidentally cut through it 😆)📍: Lillstreet #Art Center <3
#Porcelain #MastoArt #FediArt #Artwork #Artist #Arte #Clay #Ceramic #Ceramics #Pottery #Sculpture #Handmade #HandmadeArt #Chicago #Illinois #Midwest #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Photography #Photos #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone
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I made these! 😊 Just a few of my creations from the Advanced Beginning Wheelthrowing class I took in the spring:
1 - My 1st time trying Tea Dust!
2 - Another #glaze experiment!
3 - 1st time trying sgraffito!
4 - My 2nd porcelain jar! (All of these are #porcelain btw ^^)#Vase #Art #MastoArt #FediArt #Artwork #Artist #Arte #Clay #Ceramic #Ceramics #Pottery #Sculpture #Handmade #HandmadeArt #Chicago #Illinois #Midwest #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #Photography #Photos #MobilePhotography #ShotoniPhone
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today is the last day to get the pigeon package on my kofi💙 i was pleasantly surprised about how many new people joined this month.
at the time of making this post, we are at 62 members, meaning i will be sending €31 (744 czk) to the pigeon rescue center as promised - €0.50 from each member 💙
rescue center website: https://www.holubivnouzi.cz/
#pigeons #pigeon #art #artwork #stickers #charity #humanart #mastoart #handmade #handmadeArt
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The Hand-Polished Raw Fluorite VortiCore Engine Neutron™ has been listed in the online shop! 🌪️
10 guage flattened 99.9% copper
2.25 sacred cubit tensor vortex
Tensor-Enhanced Vortex Catalysts
#tensorring #handmadeart #copperart #crystals #sacredgeometry
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Gooooood Morning! 🌻🎉
It's gonna be a great day.#art #handmade #handmadeart #DigitalArt #fun #colorful #whimsicalart
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Gooooood Morning! 🌻🎉
It's gonna be a great day.#art #handmade #handmadeart #DigitalArt #fun #colorful #whimsicalart
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Made by Hand serves as both a philosophical manifesto and a practical manual for artists seeking to reclaim the "human mark" in an age of digital automation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPcnZRiSDAShMOZXghgZBt1KD1XFt84d/view?usp=sharing
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Made by Hand serves as both a philosophical manifesto and a practical manual for artists seeking to reclaim the "human mark" in an age of digital automation.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPcnZRiSDAShMOZXghgZBt1KD1XFt84d/view?usp=sharing
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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shipping to the US is available again! your shipping price will already include pre-paid customs duties, so you don't have to pay anything else upon receiving 💙
#stickers #stickershop #artistsonmastodon #mastoart #handmade #handmadeart #relatableAsfuck #relatable #silly #sillyart #funnyart #funnystickers #birdstickers #catstickers #queerart #catmemes
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Extinction
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Extinction
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Feline - Basics of Color (revise)
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt #caturday
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Feline - Basics of Color (revise)
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt #caturday
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Revised Overview of the Basics - the language of lines and values
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Revised Overview of the Basics - the language of lines and values
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Motifs as Points of Departure (revised)
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Motifs as Points of Departure (revised)
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Extinction
18 x 24"#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #expressionism #extinctions #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
Made by Hand: — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view -
Extinction
18 x 24"#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #expressionism #extinctions #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
Made by Hand: — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view -
Our Selenite SpiraVibe Wands™have been listed in the shop! 🌪️
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Abstract versus “Realistic” Art
Topic revised.MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPcnZRiSDAShMOZXghgZBt1KD1XFt84d/view?usp=sharing#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Abstract versus “Realistic” Art
Topic revised.MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cPcnZRiSDAShMOZXghgZBt1KD1XFt84d/view?usp=sharing#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Introducing
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Introducing
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Pencil & Pen Tips - revised
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Pencil & Pen Tips - revised
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Title and other revisions -- June 22
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Title and other revisions -- June 22
MADE BY HAND — The Language of Drawing & Painting
From the Basics to Expressive Art
A philosophical and practical guide for aspiring artistshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Palestinians in Gaza deserve to live. (Besides stopping our govermments & institutions from arming and funding their killers,) We can help them survive by directly supporting their fundraisers and mutual aid projects. I don't have money, but I do have my art. So I want to try something: #GreetingCards4Gaza
I carved this design to represent Gaza on two linoleum blocks and hand printed the cards with plant-based inks. I will send these cards to people who donate to Palestinians in Gaza.
I've never done something like this before, so let's just try it and call these first five greeting cards Round One.
If you want a card:
• choose a fundraiser to support: for an individual or family in Gaza, like any of those in #GazaVerified , or for a Gazan-led project like Spark Space or Ele Elna Elak. (No big nonprofits/international organizations for this)
• make a one time donation of $20+ (USD, or rough equivalent in another currency) or start a recurring donation of any size
• the first five people to DM or email me a screenshot of their donation receipt and a link to which fundraiser get a card
• your choice: receive the card with a personalized message to you written in it or a blank-inside card with matching envelope for your use
• I will message back to and ask your mailing address. I'll update this post once all 5 are claimed.
• open to anyone worldwide (*who can receive mail from the u.s.)
Thank you!#MutualAid
#MutualAidSavesLives
#FreePalestine
#LetFolksLive2026
#HandmadeArt -
Palestinians in Gaza deserve to live. (Besides stopping our govermments & institutions from arming and funding their killers,) We can help them survive by directly supporting their fundraisers and mutual aid projects. I don't have money, but I do have my art. So I want to try something: #GreetingCards4Gaza
I carved this design to represent Gaza on two linoleum blocks and hand printed the cards with plant-based inks. I will send these cards to people who donate to Palestinians in Gaza.
I've never done something like this before, so let's just try it and call these first five greeting cards Round One.
If you want a card:
• choose a fundraiser to support: for an individual or family in Gaza, like any of those in #GazaVerified , or for a Gazan-led project like Spark Space or Ele Elna Elak. (No big nonprofits/international organizations for this)
• make a one time donation of $20+ (USD, or rough equivalent in another currency) or start a recurring donation of any size
• the first five people to DM or email me a screenshot of their donation receipt and a link to which fundraiser get a card
• your choice: receive the card with a personalized message to you written in it or a blank-inside card with matching envelope for your use
• I will message back to and ask your mailing address. I'll update this post once all 5 are claimed.
• open to anyone worldwide (*who can receive mail from the u.s.)
Thank you!#MutualAid
#MutualAidSavesLives
#FreePalestine
#LetFolksLive2026
#HandmadeArt -
Pencil Tips - revised language and added illustrations -- June 20
THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Pencil Tips - revised language and added illustrations -- June 20
THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #DRAWING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Artistic Statement
added June 18THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Artistic Statement
added June 18THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Recycling book Page to make this journal card junk journal inspiration ideas
#art #artist #crafts #mixedmedia #handmadeart #artinspiration #creative #creativeart #creativity #junkjournal #junkjournalideas #junkjournalcommunity #artandcrafts #diyproject #diycrafts #wildlife #fox #mushroom #papercrafts -
Recycling book Page to make this journal card junk journal inspiration ideas
#art #artist #crafts #mixedmedia #handmadeart #artinspiration #creative #creativeart #creativity #junkjournal #junkjournalideas #junkjournalcommunity #artandcrafts #diyproject #diycrafts #wildlife #fox #mushroom #papercrafts -
Expressive Intentions section- revised June 13
ESSENTIALS OF THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Expressive Intentions section- revised June 13
ESSENTIALS OF THE ARTISTIC PROCESS
From the Basics to Expressive Art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Having a go at making my own design to use in my craft projects
#art #artist #aiart #AI #forest #forestry #woodland #wildlife #nature #junkjournal #scrapbooking #creativeart #creativity #drawings #handmade #handmadeart #handmadeartwork #mushroom -
Having a go at making my own design to use in my craft projects
#art #artist #aiart #AI #forest #forestry #woodland #wildlife #nature #junkjournal #scrapbooking #creativeart #creativity #drawings #handmade #handmadeart #handmadeartwork #mushroom -
Transitions, edges, and lines - updated topic
Diary of My Art - from the basics to expressive art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Transitions, edges, and lines - updated topic
Diary of My Art - from the basics to expressive art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Urban Tree (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #MastoArt #Fediverse #ClimateChange #extinctions #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
Alt text: Landscape motif - forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
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Urban Tree (revised)
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #MastoArt #Fediverse #ClimateChange #extinctions #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
Alt text: Landscape motif - forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
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The Wood
- revised June 6
Diary of My Art - from the basics to expressive art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Visual Art Interpretation – My Hopes and Dreams for the Next Year
This feels less like a list of resolutions than a marquee-map of my identity and desire: a radiant, hand-made 2027 filled not so much with tasks to accomplish as with the people, callings, loves, and practices that make my life feel alive.
The bright red border and repeated golden lights give it the appearance of a theater sign, a carnival ride, or an illuminated road. It seems to announce the year joyfully: Here is what I hope will shine. But inside that celebratory outline, the words do not sit neatly in straight lines. They curve, turn, reverse, overlap, and require the eye to travel. That seems important. My hopes are not separate boxes. Pastor, husband, author, musician, PeaceGrooves creator, friend, artist, woodworker, child of God—all of these identities wind through and around one another.
The words I placed inside the year—Sing, Play, Memories, God, Laugh, Journey, Pastor, Author, Husband, PeaceGrooves, Friends, Art, Church, Love, Woodcraft—are striking to me because so many of them are relational or creative. Even the roles are not primarily about achievement. Author is near Husband. Pastor winds along the same road as Journey. PeaceGrooves circles alongside Friends, Church, Love, and creativity. I did not imagine the coming year as productivity alone. I imagined it as belonging, expression, vocation, joy, and connection.
The Word I Did Not Write
After finishing the piece, I realized that I did not write health or healing anywhere inside it. Those things matter deeply to me, especially in light of some of the physical concerns and uncertainties I have been carrying. And yet, perhaps their absence does not mean they were forgotten. Perhaps I instinctively wrote the life I hope healing will allow me to continue inhabiting.
I did not write healing, but I wrote Sing-Play: the hope that my body and spirit can still release themselves into music.
I wrote Laugh: the hope for lightness, delight, and joy.
I wrote Journey: the hope that I can continue moving forward.
I wrote Husband and Friends: the hope of remaining present in love and relationship rather than retreating into worry or isolation.
I wrote Pastor and Church: the hope that I can continue serving meaningfully among people.
I wrote Art, Author, Woodcraft, and PeaceGrooves: the hope that creativity will continue flowing through me rather than being swallowed up by discouragement, exhaustion, or fear.
Perhaps healing is everywhere in this drawing without having been named. It is hidden beneath almost every word: Let me be well enough, free enough, encouraged enough, and alive enough to keep inhabiting these loves.
But perhaps the omission also tells me something tender and difficult about myself. When I think about the future, I often think first about what I can give, create, serve, love, and build. I may not always think first about what I need. This picture invites me to remember that somewhere in the glowing year ahead, there must also be room for my own care. I am not only the husband, pastor, artist, author, musician, friend, and creator. I am also a person who needs healing, rest, gentleness, and grace.
The Smear Between Author and Husband
One of the small accidents in the piece occurred in the space between Author and Husband. Water smeared the color there, and I had to cover it as best I could. I was mostly able to hide the mistake, though I know it happened. I know that beneath the finished surface there is a place where the colors once ran together in a way I did not intend.
That accidental smear now feels strangely meaningful. Author and Husband are two of my most intimate identities: the part of me that creates worlds and gives language to inner experience, and the part of me that shares an actual life in love and covenant with another person. Perhaps those two identities were never meant to be sharply separated. My writing rises from my lived relationships, from tenderness, memory, fear, faith, longing, disappointment, and love. And my creative life inevitably spills into the life I share with my wife.
The water touched the border between those words, and I tried to repair it. That is not a failure of the picture. It may be one of the most honest parts of it. Life does not remain perfectly inside the lines. The roles I care most about do not remain untouched by mess, vulnerability, or accident. Sometimes the colors run together. Sometimes I try to cover what went wrong. Sometimes a trace remains, visible mostly to me.
Yet I did not throw the picture away. I continued working on it. I allowed the imperfection to become part of the finished whole.
Perhaps that is an image of grace. A life of grace is not a life where nothing ever gets smeared. It is a life in which even the smeared places can be incorporated into the beauty.
Church: Almost Illegible
I also noticed that Church almost looks like “Churgh.” It is there, but it is not the clearest or most immediately readable word. That, too, feels symbolic.
Church is deeply present in my hopes for the coming year. It is part of who I am, part of my calling, part of my relationship with God and with community. But church is not always simple or perfectly clear. It can be difficult to read. It can be beautiful and messy, life-giving and exhausting, sacred and profoundly human all at once.
In this picture, church does not appear by itself in a clean, isolated space. It is crowded into a circling path alongside other words: Love, Friends, Art, perhaps even the movements of creativity and ministry surrounding it. That seems truthful. For me, church is not separate from love, friendship, art, imagination, service, or reconciliation. It is entangled with them.
The fact that the word is only almost clear may express something I feel: church is something I continue to believe in and belong to, while also still trying to see clearly. It is present. It matters. It is part of the year I hope to live. But it is not polished or uncomplicated.
Perhaps that is what makes it real.
The Shape of the Year
The large number itself is not simply filled in. It becomes a winding course. The words curve around turns and corners; some appear upright from one angle and upside down from another. To read the whole image, I almost have to rotate it, follow it, and let my eyes travel through it.
That feels like an honest representation of the year ahead. I do not know exactly how it will unfold. My hopes do not form a straight road or a neatly numbered plan. They form a brightly lit labyrinth. Something that appears upside down from one position may look different once I travel farther along the curve. Something that seems peripheral now may become central. Something disappointing may redirect me toward an unexpected opening.
This drawing does not say, Here is my plan to master the next year.
It says, Here is the glowing path I hope to inhabit.
That is truer to my life. Music feeds ministry. Woodcraft feeds contemplation. Writing feeds faith. PeaceGrooves gathers together my imagination, my longing for peace, my love of play, and my desire to offer something meaningful to others. Marriage and friendship keep my creative life from becoming merely solitary. Church places my personal dreams within a larger body. God is not outside all these things, looking down upon them from a distance, but present among them.
My life is not a ladder climbing toward a single success. It is a winding, illuminated journey through many loves.
The Lights Around the Border
The repeated yellow bulbs around the border give the piece a vintage, celebratory feeling. They make the year look like something being announced: a show beginning, a stage opening, a bright invitation to enter.
There is something almost exuberant about it. I did not draw a quiet little calendar page or a restrained list of intentions. I drew the year as a spectacle of hope. These dreams are not small to me. They are worthy of light. Music, laughter, love, friendship, art, faith, craft, writing, church, PeaceGrooves—these are not hobbies or decorative extras around the edge of life. They are among the things that make life worth living.
And yet the lights are not machine-perfect. They are hand-drawn. Each one is slightly different. Some are rounder, some rougher, some more irregular. That matters too. The brightness of this coming year is not a slick commercial promise that everything will be perfect. It is the brightness I have carefully drawn around my hopes with my own imperfect hand.
Most moving of all, the lights continue around the bends. They do not shine only along the smooth or impressive stretches. They follow the narrow turns, the dips, the places where the shape curls inward. The light does not abandon the complicated places.
What This Picture Says to Me
This is a picture of my hope not merely to survive another year, but to remain fully myself within it.
I want to sing and play.
I want to laugh.
I want to remember.
I want to journey.
I want to love and be loved.
I want to remain a husband, a pastor, an author, an artist, a craftsman, a musician, a friend, and a dreamer.
I want PeaceGrooves not merely to exist as a project, but to become an expression of something deep within me: my longing to imagine, create, and make peace.
I want God not as an abstract religious idea floating somewhere outside my life, but as a living presence woven among music, love, creativity, friendship, church, memory, laughter, and journey.
And perhaps beneath the entire picture is the word I did not write: wholeness.
Wholeness includes health. It includes healing. But it is larger than both. It is the hope that all these different names for myself will not compete with one another, break apart, or fade away, but somehow curve together into a single radiant life.
The smear between Author and Husband, the almost-illegible Church, the reversed words, the crowded pathways, the uneven bulbs, and the wandering design do not lessen the picture. They make it more truthful.
My hopes for the next year are not cleanly arranged or perfectly protected from mistakes. They are handmade. They are entangled. They are vulnerable. They are colorful. They are imperfect.
And they are still shining.
#anabaptist #Art #authorLife #Church #creativeCalling #creativeLife #discernment #Faith #Friendship #God #Grace #handmadeArt #Healing #hopesAndDreams #husband #illuminatedPath #imperfection #Journey #Laughter #Love #memory #mennonite #mixedMedia #Music #pastorLife #PeaceGrooves #personalGrowth #personalReflection #ReflectiveEssay #SpiritualReflection #visualJournal #vocation #wholeness #woodcraft #WordPressTags2027Hopes #Writing -
Mandala - revised June 3
Diary of My Art - from the basics to expressive art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view
#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
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Composition - revised June 1
Diary of My Art - from the basics to expressive art
(a book intended for students and aspiring artists)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18BZ3LYxV--ZuPrlHY0_HZghzuhO_64_F/view#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
ALT Text: you can open the PDF link to zoom in to read the text and better view the images.
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"Night shades - and denial"
24 x 28"#PAINTING #art #abstract #AbstractArt #Nature #MastoArt #fediart #MastoArt #Fediverse #ClimateChange #extinctions #SciArt #BlueSkyArt #TraditionalArt #HandmadeArt
Alt text: Landscape motif - forming with color aspects of nature with paint.
