A new portrait and place each week.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Surviving.

Watercolor on watercolor paper. 9x12.

This is one of the only, maybe the only expressive pieces I have ever done. I was a missionary in mongolia 6 months ago and was loving the work I was doing when I suddenly got sick, came home, and had to make a lot of changes due to illness. I remember sitting in our backyard and staring at a big dead tree behind our house. I thought it looked how I felt. But this tree won't stay barren, it just needs to survive the winter. Life has seasons too and we can't always thrive, sometimes we just need to survive. Summer comes, and this tree is covered with green now and is full of life.

3 comments:

  1. this is so impressive hon! wow. it was moving even before i read the description! you're gonna be the biggest, greenest, bushiest tree ever! hang in there! :)

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  2. This is truly beautiful Ashley...and I agree with Kat. You'll be big and green and bushy before you know it. ;)

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  3. haha I love you two! thanks for believe that I can be bushy and green ;)

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