Summertime

Yes, I know those were the days!

This image was done in a meadow alongside Lough Neah whilst lying on a blanket picking on grapes and sandwiches... occasionally moving away from a tiny (or wee, as they say here in Northern Ireland) spider whose path might be crossing mine...

Thou shalt not live on memories alone - but they help on cold autumn days!

Done in pastel pencils.

close-up on envy4

envy2

close-up on envy3

envy3

close-up on envy2

envy1

close-up on envy1

envy4

A digital conversation

conversation

envy

envy pen

My 'envy' drawing for illustration Friday in pen.

flowers

flowers

Detail from a flowers-in-vase study.

summer feast4

feast4

summer feast3

feast3

summer feast2

feast2

16 june 2005 summer feast1

feast1

Miserable self-portrait from Christine's sketchbook

'Ploughmen have ploughed my back
and made their furrows long.' - Psalm 129, a song of ascents, verse 3

'Our daughters will be like pillars
carved to adorn a palace.' - Psalm 143, of David, verse 12

'The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down.' - Psalm 145, a psalm of praise, of David, verse 14

'A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul' - Proverbs 13 verse 19

'The wise woman builds her house,
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.'
- Proverbs 14 verse 1

'The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,
he is the one you are to fear,
he is the one you are to dread,
and he will be a sanctuary' - Isaiah 8 verse 13 & 14

From Christine's sketchbook 20th of May 2005