3 Women in Heels by Anna Jane Elliott for the Heels 4 Hope Event, An Event benefiting the Downtown Hope Center's Women's Shelter.
3 Women in Heels - Story Behind the Painting
Aug 13, 2020
For one, this painting is a recent development. In fact, this painting didn’t exist a couple weeks ago. I painted it with the Event in mind, the Downtown Hope Center and specifically, their Women’s Shelter, in mind.
I was looking for a graphic for the event in the envisioned style of the Executive Director and what what the Deputy Director thought the Executive Director was wanting.
I thought a painting that captured both the idea of the event in a specific style and colors could help solidify the meaning behind the event. I could also provide a limited license to use the painting on event flyers.
So I decided to paint one (because if something doesn’t exist, I create it).
When I was painting it, she originally started with one set of heels but soon realized that the painting, the Event...
Cool Abstract Landscape - Story Behind the Painting
Aug 12, 2020
Story time once again. This painting started much like post-its or any other invention gone wrong... but highly beneficial... I had bought professional paint, and different variations of it, in colors I appreciated, and was experimenting with the full body version. Which pulled, and was not giving me the result I wanted, and I was frustrated and felt let down. It seemed like everything was going wrong... and I questioned whether it was a good idea to even start using professional grade paint, thinking I am not ready for this... and then I took a step back.
"Sometimes it takes taking a step back from the situation we are right smack in the middle of, to see the larger picture." -Anna Elliott
So I did, I took a step back. And took a break, walking across the room, and then as I looked up and back at the painting, I could see it - what it was, a more abstract version of landscape than I had done before. So what did I learn? To not knock trying new things. To...
Seraphim over Sunset Waters - Story Behind the Painting
Aug 07, 2020
When I set out to paint that night...
Things had been really stressful
It had been a little while since I had painted
I painted it in the days leading up to the first anniversary of my mom's death, which I was dreading.. anyone relate?!?
I put a movie on, probably for sound, and started painting. I wasn't really watching the movie but kiddo and son were at my in-laws and I didn't want the pressure of figuring out what to paint, and wasn't sure if I would be more into painting or the movie, so I had both options available.
I had no preconceived idea of what the painting was to be, I was painting over a previous version of a painting that to me was not what I wanted it to be, and so I just picked a color and started painting. Because this painting is horizontal, I decided to paint horizontal as well, long brush strokes across the painting, going with instinct for what needed to be there.. switching colors, switching brush technique, switching brushes,...
Coral In Bloom - Story Behind the Painting
Aug 07, 2020
Over 10 years ago, I had the picture in my mind of a flower in water as a result of a trip I had taken where I spent a lot of time by myself, traveling and thinking about things.
God must have known I think in pictures, because He gave me a picture in my mind of a flower in water…
I asked Him what it was about and He said that I am a flower.. when I am in His living water, I bloom, thriving and living as I was created to be.
When I am not in His living water, I wither.
I am designed to be connected to Him.
And in that state, I am at my best, regardless of circumstances, regardless of anything or anyone else.
As I thought about what He told me and how I needed that reminder / course correction, I thought it was represented in a lily on a lily pad in a river.
So I decided to create a physical representation of it in the form of a glass mosaic....
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