Palette Paintings on Paper

 

Palette-- red, blue, yellow, black, and white on 5X7-inch sheets of cold-press watercolor paper.

Music sings in my heart as I paint on paper. My painting is a worship of God, Master of the Universe. My brush expresses the joy I feel to know Him personally. These paintings on paper are indicative of a new turning point in my art journey. From three-dimensional art dolls to two-dimensional images of color and form, I have moved from a sort of folk art to something even more intuitive. 

These paintings are a celebration of every good gift from God in my life. With each brushstroke, I hope to bring joy to His heart, the joy of being a human creative sharing with the original Creator! Included in this is the thankfulness I feel for beauty, texture, diversity, form, and color. Even the challenging aspects of life elicit thankfulness-- suffering, illness, grief, growth, and change. The distilling darkness has the potential to bring forth transformation, tenacity, compassion, peace, and finally, joy!

This Earth is the university for our souls. The best possible outcome is to have matured as a human and learned how to truly love God and others. 

A Poetry Book

 I finally put together a little poetry book. 

It is twenty-six pages of poetics and photography. It represents a colorful overview of my origins, fantasies, and spirituality. This is the dark and light of it—the pain and suffering, the joy and delight.

 My Mother’s Garden

My mother’s gladness thrives

 in splotches of orange tiger lily,

 wavering yellow daffodils,

 and raging pink cosmos.

 Their friendly perfume

 sweeten her spirit

 while she bends beneath a flutter of butterflies;

 shooing away the squirrels

 that gnaw about their roots.

 My mother’s joy is nurtured

 In carefully dug patches,

 summered around the brick-red house

 and tended with an old farmer’s skill.

silent

Bedded within this heart of flesh

Deeply swaddled by blankets of faith,

Lies the stellar peace of God--

Which silent, embraces my soul

Beyond understanding

or human knowledge.

Holy quiet enfolds me,

And loves me,

And comforts me well

Through 

The soundless night.

© 2025 Gladys Drew-Yarrow

 

A Change in the Wind

 

"Grounding Spirit"

© gdrew 2024

                                                                           "Creation"

© gdrew 2024

"Wind in the Spirit"

© gdrew 2024

All three paintings are 14x14-inch canvases painted in acrylic with Posca acrylic markers. They feature a new direction in my work. They are prayerfully and playfully painted in layers, with texture, and a red, blue, and yellow palette. Because I am an intuitive painter, I do not preplan my paintings. They just turn out the way they come out. I tweak, enhance, and make things work. Titles come last, after much meditating on the image that has come to be. What fun and excitement!

Latest Quick Paintings

 

(16x20) 2024 "God's Eye"

(16x20)  2024  "Orange"

(11x16)   2024  "Yellow Wave"

(16x20)   2024  "Dancing Wind"

Females From The Imagination

 

(11x10) Canvas board, Posca marker, acrylics.

(11x10)  Paper, Posca markers. 

Females from the imagination. 

 A painting and drawing made from the imagination- one painted, one  drawing.  I was just playing with materials and subjects. It was absorbing and fun.  The painting will be signed and finished with varnish. The drawing is in my sketchbook. I enjoy creating works involving people.

May/June's Quick Paintings

(11x14 acrylic, Posca markers, pencil on watercolor paper)

(12x12 pencil and acrylic)

(12x12 pencil and acrylic)

(11x14 pencil, crayon, acrylic)

Intuitive quick paintings done in response to soaking music. Sometimes I do these paintings in silence, but these four were done with music). All the colors were mixed using a palette of red, blue, yellow, black, and white).

 

Quick Paintings - June/July 2024

 

(12x12 canvas board with acrylic, pencil, Posca markers)

(6x8 sketchbook painting, acrylic, pencil, Posca markers)

(11x14 crayon & Posca markers on grey paper)

Sorry I haven't been posting here lately. I have been busy making intuitive paintings to soaking music. Soaking music is an intuitive, spontaneous, Holy Spirit-inspired form of music, singing, and prayers. My paintings are a response to the melodies and rhythms. Emotional, feeling, and organic; they are an intuitive dance of colors and marks on paper, canvas, sketchbooks, and board.