Brenda Stichter, artist

New Every Morning #47 One more leaf painting for this autumn - unless I get another chance to find more inspiration and get into the studio! I did see a bright yellow pile of gingko leaves that tempted me to grab a few, but that was before it started raining. (Hurray for rain!)  $100.00 plus shipping and handling 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase on my website. After a phone call this morning with a loved one, it is another high stress day here at my house, but I am actively trusting God for grace and peace, (1 Peter 1:2) and His mercies that are always new.  Lamentations 3:22-23 22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! So I am off to try to meet today's new challenges. May the Lord's grace and peace be with you today, too! Coram Deo.

New Every Morning #46 This morning, we had heavy, blue-gray clouds bringing much needed rain to our area, and I thought it would be a perfect background for my next leaf painting. What an interesting new thing to be painting! It is kind of a still life, and kind of a floral, and whichever of those you might consider the painting to be, it is sure not my normal abstract painting.  $100.00 plus shipping and handling 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase on my website. Mostly painted with a brush, I think this leaf is a pretty good companion to yesterday's palette knife leaf painting, partly because I used the same group of colors on both. I just hope the colors look right on your screen, because they are vibrant.  This weekend we are expecting a lot of hours in the vehicles as we shuffle paintings from place to place. While I wouldn't necessarily

New Every Morning #45 New Every Morning was the title for a series I started several years ago, and I had thought I was finished with this series, but today I chose to start working on the same series again. This time, though, I have started adding more representational work to the series. The earlier part of the series is almost all abstract paintings.  $100.00 plus shipping and handling 6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purchase on my website. I walked in the woods today, and the gorgeous leaves kept me paying close attention! I brought several up to the house. The sky this morning was an amazing pink color, so I wanted to represent that as I worked on this palette knife painting of one of the leaves I brought home, too.  Lamentations 3:22-23 22 Because of the Lord’s faithful love  we do not perish,  for His mercies never end.  They are new every morning;

  Weight of Glory It has been absolutely too long since I have been able to release a new painting, so it brings me GREAT excitement to finally have a new one to share with you! But as usual, I wish you could see it in person.  2 Corinthians 4:17 For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory .  $1300.00 plus shipping and handling 48" x 18" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas, composition gold leaf Edges painted black Click here to view or purchase on my website. I started working on this painting probably in August, and it was finished in early October. I loved painting the full earlier layers using limited colors that I seldom paint with. I had packed all of my regular colors to take a workshop, so I chose to start this one with less familiar colors. A pleasing but complex pattern began taking shape, and I wanted to tame it while still allowing the beauty to show,

The Power of Hope, 2023. In a corporate collection Well, I have so many things to tell you! I have been busy, though I have only gotten back to painting in the last couple of days. I have one on the easel that I love, and I can hardly wait to finish it and show it to you. (And then, on to a whole bunch more that are already under way.) This month the Artists Magazine special edition featuring the Best of Acrylic winners (also known as AcrylicWorks 11) is in the bookstores, and I visited Barnes & Noble to look for it, because I have a painting that was chosen! Do you  remember The Power of Hope from the Hope Project that I worked on last year for a local hospital? It sure made my day to find the magazine there, and to find my painting inside! Fear Not Little Flock As you might remember from way back in August, my painting Fear Not Little Flock was juried into the International Acrylic Biennial Exhibition. I feel so honored to have this piece in that show, and it will hang in the

Offering, 2016 Will be available in my upcoming solo exhibit "The best-laid schemes of mice and men Go oft awry," This quote from the Robert Burns poem  "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785" sure seems apt for this summer! How has your summer gone? Have things gone as expected for you? But I will return to that conversation in a few minutes. First, I want to share that I have been invited to have a solo exhibit in the Indianapolis area for the month of October, and I would love to have you see it. The announcement on my website  can be seen here, and I have also made a Facebook event for those who follow my social media. There will be a r eception on Friday,  October 11 from  6:00 - 8:00 at the Off Broadway Gallery, South Side Art League, 299 E Broadway, Greenwood, Indiana 46143 Substance of Things Hoped For, 2018 The exhibit will feature both older and newer paintings, many of them award winning works, and sizes from 2.5"

My Boyfriend's Back My Boyfriend's Back (and You're Gonna Be in Trouble)  Do you remember this song from the Chiffons? I think it was from the 50s or the 60s. I chose this unlikely title because (drum roll please)  Finally! My Beloved Husband is home from a week and a half in Paraguay, South America, and I am so glad he's home! My plan was to be very productive in the studio while he was away, but alas, I think the Muse went to South America with him. I was productive in the sense of putting gesso on canvases, studying art from other artists, rearranging and organizing tools and studio space... But while I did have studio time every day, and I now have probably 10 starts on paintings, I could not bring anything to the point where I was even kind of happy with my progress.  160.00 plus shipping and handling 8" x 10" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper Ready to frame Click here to view or purc