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Tender Mercies

Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has said: “The Lord’s tender mercies are the very personal and individualized blessings, strength, protection, assurances, guidance, loving-kindnesses, consolation, support, and spiritual gifts which we receive from and because of and through the Lord Jesus Christ. ”

Texture Recipe

3 Tbsp baking soda 

1 Tbsp Elmers glue

1 Tbsp  acrylic paint

Mix well and apply, using a stencil.

Watercolor Artists

*** Christine Elder botanist

Bonnie Snowden- colored pencils

Crystal Tan Art

Thomas Schaller

Windy Iris Art - busho

Denice Love-abstract

Andrea Nelson Art 30 day challenge

Katie White

Tina Williams 

Joly Poa

"Twisted Artdesigns- Neocolor II Crayons"

Gabibrownart -- pd 10 for watercolor week Oct 21. Also called Let's get artsy

Andrew Pitts

*Art by Lyn Norris

Willa Wanders -color harmony willawanders.com

Almanac Art landscapes 

Jessica Young  Intuitive Art

Painting florals with Jann

Diane Antone-love her

Rachel Parker Varner

Sarah Cray funny

Website with LOTS of information  handprint.com

School of Watercolor- https://schoolofwatercolour.co.uk/collections?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=120212810896180402&utm_term=120212810896170402&utm_content=120212812051680402

Helen Rae Campbell - botanical 

Ryan O'Rourk - 10 min paintings

 Karen Rice -plastic card painting 

Chris Petri

Shelly Cliff art - cute bookmarks

Strathmore Artist painters -Steve

Crystal Beshara-autumn leaf

Audrey Shantz Art

Lily_and_thistle birds and many great, easy ideas.on Instagram

Julia Lis

Geoff Kersey at www.Watercolorlamdscapes.co.uk I have an account pw Shauna#1

Diane Anton Studios Christmas cards also uses pen and ink

Ellen Crimi-Trent art studio

Anna Bucciarelli - leaves tutorial https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vCzvnsl0IEk

Lois Davidson - landscapes 

Rick Surowicz - landscapes

Erin Eno florals

*Liesl's artistic studio -florals

Paul Clark on YouTube

Fb group also

On Patreon, Louise De Masi. Or Watercolor Mastery online by Emily Olsen.  Both are great teachers!

Anna Mason from the UK  she's an amazing instructor.  She has a few freebies on You Tube, try her out!

Oliver Pyle for watercolour landscape.

Matthew White & Emily Olson are my favorites.

Sarah Cray of Let's Make Art.  Lots of free tutorials on Utube.

These are my favorites for beginners on YouTube:

Jenna Rainey

Liron yanconsky

Emma Lefebvre to

Michelle Webber

Louise DeMasi

Sarah Burns - gouache

Let’s make art.

Diane Antone

Also FB group:  Let's Make Art: Watercolor.  She is a wonderful teacher with a beautiful personality that shines through in her tutorials.

I recommend checking out Andrea Nelson Art - she does wonderful beginner watercolor art demos, very encouraging, not so much painting objects but just painting. She's a delight for me to watch and learn from.

David J Roger's ocean

Look up Lets Make Art videos on youtube and get the outlines free from their website. They give people the outlines to trace for this exact reason!

I started with Patreon.. Andrea Nelson specifically! :) I follow Kristin van leuven (hello lovely people) and have learned soooo much from her.. specifically her tiny painting challenge! She also does classes on different subjects each month.  I also learn a lot from De Winton Paper co, Emma Lefebvre, Sarah Burns, and Ellen crimini-Trent on Patreon! If you want to learn super detailed and realistic things, then follow Kristine rapohina!

Judy Barron

When your thoughts have torn at the lining of your strength, take heart. Hold on. There is grace for this.

There are seasons that do not merely wound us; they wear us thin. They unravel us strand by strand until we hardly recognize ourselves. The kind of sorrow that keeps us awake when the house is quiet. The kind of disappointment that replays itself like a song we never asked to hear. The kind of waiting that stretches across months and years and leaves our hearts weary from carrying hope.

And somewhere in the middle of it all, we begin to believe the lie that what happened to us has become who we are.

But beloved, you are not the sum of what happened.

You are not the betrayal.

You are not the divorce.

You are not the diagnosis.

You are not the failure.

You are not the grave you stood beside.

You are not the unanswered prayer that still aches in your chest.

You are not the chapter that broke you.

You are not the mistake that haunts you.

You are not the worst thing that has ever happened to you.

You belong to God.

And His voice speaks a deeper truth than your pain ever could.

The enemy would love to reduce your identity to a scar. To convince you that your suffering is your name. To make you believe that because the storm passed through your life, you have become the storm.

But God does not introduce you by your wounds.

He calls you redeemed.

He calls you beloved.

He calls you chosen.

He calls you His.

And perhaps you feel exhausted from carrying questions with no answers. Perhaps your mind has wandered the same dark roads so many times that they have become familiar territory. You have searched every memory for explanations. Turned over every stone. Replayed every conversation. Wondered if one different choice might have changed everything.

Oh weary heart, there comes a moment when analysis cannot heal what only grace can touch.

There comes a moment when God gently takes our trembling hands and says, “Enough. Come sit with Me.”

The Lord specializes in people whose strength has been torn at the seams.

Jacob limped.

David sinned.

Jeremiah mourned.

Peter failed.

Thomas doubted.

Paul carried thorns.

Yet God filled every crack with His Glory.

What if this season is not proof that you are falling apart?

What if it is proof that God is making room for Himself in places you once relied on your own strength?

What if these tears are watering something eternal?

What if this breaking is preparing a greater beauty than you can presently imagine?

The shattered places of your life are not wasted in His hands.

He is the God who gathers fragments.

The God who restores ruined cities.

The God who makes deserts bloom.

The God who steps into tombs and calls dead things by name.

Take heart.

Not because the road is easy.

Not because the outcome is guaranteed to look the way you hoped.

Not because every question will be answered tomorrow.

Take heart because Jesus is still Jesus.

Take heart because grace has not run out.

Take heart because mercy is still new this morning.

Take heart because the Shepherd has never lost sight of one wounded sheep.

Take heart because even now, while you feel weak, God is sustaining you with hands that never tremble.

Your identity remains untouched.

You are not the ashes.

You are the one He will raise from them.

You are not the valley.

You are the one He walks through it with.

You are not the sorrow.

You are the one He loves in the middle of it.

You are not what happened.

You are His.

And that changes everything.

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