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Grander Joy of Spirit in Portraiture
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Follow my journey in creating a series of spiritual portraits which is an intuitive effort to pin down that quality of God within each person's aura, as it expresses itself in unique and subtle ways through each of us.
Recent Posts
My Visit with Mary Magdalene
A mother and her two children in front of the reliquaryNewly renovated stained glass windows at St. Thomas Aquinas church the French relic of Mary Magdalene positioned atop a limousine for the outdoor processionboth relic and priests were escorted by...
Aix en Provence Madonna & Child progress, Step 4
36" x 24", pastel-in-progress of the corner niche ornamenting a building on the square in Aix-en-Provence...
Aix en Provence Madonna & Child progress, Step 3
36" x 24", pastel-in-progress on Wallis paper...
White Madonna & Child Niche, Aix-en-Provence, progress
36" x 24", further progress with my pastel on Wallis paperI made some further progress on Wallis paper and I'm feeling better about it, but still exploring options....
White Madonna & Child Niche, Aix-en-Provence
two views of the 36" x 24" pastel-in-progress on Wallis paperExperimentation is an important aspect of being an artist. I've made a start on the white Madonna and Child on a pastel surface that is new to me, Wallis paper, and I'm struggling a bit to...
White Madonna & Child Niche, Aix-en-Provence
photo © Mona Diane Conner 2008I've made three drawings in my effort to start a new pastel of a beautiful white Madonna & Child niche statue that I photographed in Aix-en-Provence during my trip to France in 2008. It has taken three tries to dec...

