Heather Eddy Art

 Ultramarine turquoise is beautiful. I've always loved the phrase "salad days" from Shakespeare. It means those days of one's life characterized by youth, innocence & inexperience & "green judgment". After the salad comes the entree. I'm in the entree days of my life. Lately, I've had meat. Hearty grains. Healthy vegetables & fruit. And mashed potatoes & gravy . After so many years of darkness & confusion, there have been more than tiny moments. There have been days, weeks, and now,  months where I'm experiencing so much growth. I'm happy. I'm thankful. I feel like I'm GETTING IT. In Sunday School today, we were studying Lehi's dream. Although I've heard the story a million times, the teacher asked us about the symbols in the dream. I know those, so I thought it was going to be a snoozer of a lesson, until we went a little more in depth. The tree is the love of God (yada yada yada) and the...

Tonight I listened to a TEDxBYU talk by Brian Kershisnik called " Harvesting from Chaos ". I've loved Brian's work since I was in college. I'm unsure what brought him into my classroom to talk with/to my teacher Doug Himes, but I saw some of his art when he was there and it took my breath away. There are just some things you know are great the first time you see them. Brian's work was amazing. He drew beautiful pictures of cedar trees (corndog trees), women in shift-type dresses and used beautiful colors like robin's egg blue and white and green and well, they were magical. His style ended up in my work a lot and I've had to be very cognizant that I do not copy him now (but I still do in my mind). His style has seeped into a lot of contemporary LDS artists and I don't want to be considered a satellite to him. Brian talked about creation and how chaos provides the material for creation. He told stories of going on study abroad to England and a ...