Brenda Stichter, artist

Far Kingdom After nearly a week trying to name and blog about this painting, I finally gave up and posted it on Instagram and Facebook as "Untitled", and asked for title suggestions. I felt that my longing for my eternal home and my (sometimes distant) hope were showing up in this landscape.  One friend suggested "Far Kingdom" in reference to a song by the Gray Havens , and I am loving that suggestion! One of the lines in that song that touches me speaks of the Far Kingdom knowing my name.  36" x 36" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on 1.5” deep gallery wrapped canvas Click here to purchase via my website. John 14:1 - 3  “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be al...

New Every Morning #40 This bright, texture-rich little painting is a really good reminder of the last couple days here in Northern Indiana. The colors remind me of the weather which has been (mostly) bright, warm, and spring-y, and the heavy texture reminds me of the daily adjustments that we are all under with regards to the virus. The painting is a "high-key" painting, which means there aren't dark values in it. I am just loving the bright color.  It kind of reminds me of a landscape, how about you? And it looks like there is water flowing down into the foreground. I am always captivated by water! 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. I may have mentioned this before, but I am finding I really need color these days. I think it would be so much harder to "hunker at home" (as Indiana calls it) if we were in the middle of a typical Northern...

New Every Morning #38 Here we are, all of us, in an unprecedented situation. It seems that daily, new restrictions are arising, and new questions come to my mind, as I am sure they do to yours. I am daily, or maybe hourly or even continuously, returning to the knowledge that MY HEAVENLY FATHER IS NOT SURPRISED. He is good, He loves me (and you), and He will cause "all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28 New Every Morning #38 is my newest addition to my series of small paintings, and it expresses some of what I have been feeling. I think it feels a little stormy, and maybe eerie, but it is a traditional format - almost an abstract landscape - and I am using that to show that even in stormy, eerie, unprecedented days, God is still absolutely solid.  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 ...

New Every Morning #37 It is a splendidly sunny day again here in Indiana! I am not at all sure how to behave when we have so much sunshine. Do I go outside and soak up some vitamin D, or do I get back in the studio and paint (or on the computer and blog)? On days like this, everything I see is beautiful...  I have been working on a project in the studio that I plan to share next week. I have finished two of the three paintings in the group, and so far, I am happy with them!  My Beloved Husband is improving daily from his shoulder surgery, though it is still a painful and long ordeal ahead. He is out of his sling for the most part and starting to stretch and strengthen his arm and shoulder.  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. On bright days like today, I am so thankful that my Heavenly Father offers his lovingkindness "new every morning...

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 ...

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 view on 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 of th...

New Every Morning #24 A quick post this afternoon to share the painting I shared on Instagram ( brendakaypaintings ). As I mentioned there, I had fully intended to add an abandoned building to this landscape, but I am choosing to keep it sparse, at least for now.  I really love the greens and the textures in the grass.  The feeling of a sparse, abandoned, forgotten place in an empty landscape was the original intent, but this little painting is sweet as it is.  6" x 6" Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on panel Ready to frame Click here to view on my website. The sorrowful news over the weekend of more people being shot to death in our country brings added significance to my painting, but more so to the Scripture verses on which the series is based.  Lamentations 3:21‭-‬23 ESV But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every m...

Seek My Face If you have watched my progress for very long, you know it is fairly uncommon for me to paint a representational painting. (Notice, I didn't call it realistic! I would still consider this to be an abstract landscape.) But being recognizable isn't the only unusual thing about this painting. It is also huge! It is 48" x 60" - tied with Higher Glory for the biggest painting I have done.  SOLD 48" x 60" Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on  deep gallery-wrapped canvas Ready to hang Click here to see this painting on my website. There were several 'muses' for this work. I don't suppose muse is quite the correct word, but the influence of all of these things has been with me as I have worked on this painting.   First, let me share with you a song that my mother recommended to me, called Is He Worthy? , by Andrew Peterson. It was quite a while from the time Mom suggested this song until I listened to it, bu...