Finding Peace Canvas Print

Finding Peace is a vista I captured on a sunny summer afternoon at one of our birdbaths. I love the way the male cardinal just sits there looking up, as if in deep thought. While studying the photograph, lots of things came to mind, but finding peace in silence spoke to me. It is my hope that it prompts you to sit quietly and find the peace that your soul needs. To achieve this rendering I had to do extensive digital manipulation and then added the verbiage via mixed media.

God has given me this gift and being a Christian, I always give Him all the glory for allowing me the opportunity of sharing it with you. More often than not, the purposes of my photographs are the result of seeing beyond what is drawing me to grab my camera. It is like an extra sense and when they are loaded to my computer, their purposes are revealed and thus the process begins. This revelation walks happily hand in hand with my desire to learn more digital creative techniques, explore and experiment with the end result enhancing what originally captures my eye. I continue to grow, both in my interests and skills and am now offering abstract and even digital artwork that are created totally through manipulations in a variety of artistic...