Emily Knowles Studio

In my natural habitat, enjoying the little bits of sunlight and raw pigment marks on canvas... I’m already starting to feel a little bitter sweet about saying goodbye to these paintings... one more month!! #artist #makingartworkcourse #fineart #canadianartist #emilyknowlesstudio #oilpainting #artistpainting

These tubes have been getting a lot of love lately! The colors are so earthy and good for my soul (especially in the cold, bleak colouring of the winter)

Inspiration for today True strength does not come out of bravado. Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be our own. So long as you think you are really something in and of yourself, what will you need God for? I don’t trust a man who hasn’t suffered; I don’t let a man get close to me who hasn’t faced his wound. Think of the posers you knoware they the kind of man you would call at 2:00 A.M., when life is collapsing around you? Not me. I don’t want clichés; I want deep, soulful truth, and that only comes when a man has walked the road I’ve been talking about. John Eldredge, Wild at Heart