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Building Texture in a Painting

By Julie Drew | January 17, 2023 |

I am excited to have finished mixed media painting, Regeneration 3, I started working on in the Acrylic Explorations class in the fall! It will be shown for the first time at the Nina Haggerty Gallery, 9225 118 Ave NW, during the Deep Freeze Festival January 21-22, 2023 12-6 pm Buiding a Textured Painting: I…

Getting Creative

By Julie Drew | March 4, 2022 |

Being around creative people sparks creativity.Creativity relieves us of our burdensome self consciousness. Creativity connects us to our heart and relationship with reality.The sense of meaning and delight in creativity has more to do with the process than the end product. Find in the process what you want to communicate and find out something deeper…

Puzzles and Commissions

By Julie Drew | February 7, 2022 |

The month of January slipped away from me… My daughters and I drove down to stay a week with my parents and sister in Spokane, WA. It had been 2 years since I saw them last in person. I have been thankful for being able to “see” them via zoom, but even so, it was…

Painting Peace and Stillness

By Julie Drew | August 17, 2021 |

We have had a full summer already with a family visit, in-person classes opening up, art walks to participate in, new websites, and projects to create. Yet, we have taken a weekend each month (June -Aug) to go camping and get out to enjoy the beauty of Alberta. Inspired by the quiet beauty of the…

Season of Rest

By twhmanager | December 6, 2019 |

This last week I was talking to my spiritual director about the conflict within me about rest. I feel guilty and useless when I rest even when I know I need to be doing it to let my injured muscles heal so they can again be strengthened. Knowing it and living it are two different…

What Are You Waiting For?

By twhmanager | October 29, 2019 |

Waiting. What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? Do you feel the difference with the different emphasis? Which phrase connected with you the most? Waiting has been on my mind for over a month… I put a…

Merry Christmas

By Julie Drew | December 20, 2018 |

Have you ever noticed that there are more people out and about from November through December? This is the season of waiting: waiting in traffic, waiting in lines, waiting for the holidays, waiting for family, waiting with anticipation. When we read the Christmas story we are reminded of other ways of waiting: Mary waiting for…

Spring?

By Julie Drew | May 6, 2015 |

Spring or Winter Relapse? We woke up to snow this morning. And as I write this it continues to fall. My girls were not excited about it. One chose to bike to work, the other hitched a ride from her dad to get to school. Once everyone had left I took the opportunity to grab…

Waiting for the Promise

By Julie Drew | January 2, 2015 |

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you—so that you are not lacking in any gift,…

And The Heavens Declare the Glory

By Julie Drew | June 1, 2012 |

Painting: The Heavens DeclareTime flies…and sometimes it doesn’t.I have worked on two paintings this year that reflect the passage of time. The changes a sky can have in 20 minutes. One I painted in February and this week I finished the second one. The first one I saw on my way to Kananaskis last summer.…