Brenda Stichter, artist

Autumn Abstract "Someone mentioned to me that you are pretty prolific, even though you are having difficulties right now," said my Beloved Husband, "and I told them that often it is because you have 3 or 4 paintings underway, and it may only take an hour or so to finish one." He is right, of course, but this particular painting is even quicker to the (blog) post than many. In fact, this one has been posted before, but today I looked it over again and added a couple of updates. NOW maybe it is really done!  6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on Art Bite panel Ready to frame I actually have finished another painting today, too, but the blog post on that one is marinating, so to speak, as is the title. I know what it is about, and what the Scripture passages are that influenced my work, but I haven't managed the word part yet.  Today is an unseasonably warm autumn day, and I feel unseasonably pressed. But I am goin

New Every Morning #28 Today is gray and rainy, and while I love this kind of day, it really stinks trying to get a good photograph of my painting without the sun! I just cannot capture the light or the color properly.  We have guests staying with us now, and because they don't need to be up and around at "zero-dark-thirty" like we do, I spent some time outside watching the sky at sunrise today. Wow. It was so beautiful! I tried to photograph the sky, too, but again, I could not capture it... the color and shape were there, but they were muted and blurred  without the sun. 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on Art Bite panel Ready to frame Click here to purchase via my website. Some friends of friends lost their 22 year old son yesterday. I have been heartbroken for them for the last two days. There have been a few photos shared, but you know, they just cannot get a good photo without that son.  My painting time

Draw Me (Into Your Circle) Oh boy. This one will have to do a lot of the speaking for me.  It is a study, really, for a larger piece on this subject, but it may take over the spotlight, so to speak.  6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on Art Bite panel This little painting is on an Art Bite panel, and is very heavily textured. Most of the paint is iridescent and shimmers like gold and copper. The greens remind me of copper verdigris. The 'circles' are out of alignment and not really circles . I am reminded of brilliance, but misalignment - shine, but weathered exposure.  I am at a loss for the words to express my need to be drawn close to my Savior, Jesus Christ, today. I have no circumstantial reason to offer.  I am not depressed or hurt or lonely - not at all.   But I need Him so much.  I cannot imagine living without Him.  I just want to be drawn close.  I Peter 1:7- 9 "so that the genuineness of your faith—more valua

New Every Morning #27 Early this morning I started my quiet time of Bible reading and prayer in 'my spot', looking out across our pasture and woods. I was listening to the Dallas Theological Seminary video of last night's worship chapel, and watching the ground fog over the pasture. The combination of the music/celebration of praise and the illustration of beauty sidetracked me, and I interrupted my quiet time (or maybe just experienced it in a different way) by heading to the studio to paint a morning painting.  6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on hand-made, prepared wood panel Ready to frame Click here to purchase via my website. James 4:14 (ESV) "yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."  (By the way, I found this passage to be comforting, surprisingly enough...) Lamentations 3:22-23 "The steadfast love

Sold in September 2019 Well, I am beginning to think I need either an assistant or an intern to help me catch up with everything! This is a good 'problem' to have, I know. I had an amazing September, as far as art is concerned.  Here is a collage of the pieces that sold in September. Pretty impressive, wouldn't you say?  Overflowing Hope, also sold Oh! I forgot to add this painting to the collage of sold work. It has been a favorite for a long time!  Expectations, in national abstract exhibit I just sent this painting to Indianapolis for the SALI NATIONAL ABSTRACT ART EXHIBITION XV. This is a juried competition for abstract painting that I have enjoyed being part of for the last several years.  Benediction, headed to Denver! Last week I learned that my painting Benediction is accepted into a juried show in collaboration with the Makers & Mysics Podcast - which I am extraordinarily excited about! This exhibit will take place in Denver, CO

If only you could see the details and beauty of this painting! I would love for you to be able to feel with me the richness of the contrasts between the dark mixes of color and the bright passages, between the teal and the iridescence, between the deep mooring and the bright hope.  The colors in the 'bubbles' are intense and variegated and deep. The textures and marks on the surface of the canvas move between freely playful and sharply angled. The overall structure of the painting is loosely a cruciform composition, and the brightest notes cross the canvas horizontally.  Sold 36" x 36" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas Click here to view on my website. Hebrews 6:18-19(CSB)  " so that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul,