“Solace”
-comfort or consolation in a time of distress or sadness
12×12 acrylic over collage papers on cradled board
©Teresa Kogut
photo taken with instagram
Today we honor those men and women who served our country in order to preserve our freedom. Some lost their lives defending it…..freedom that we often take for granted. When I stop and think about those who sacrificed themselves for us, it inspires me to do my best to live a charitable, honest and upright life. They gave EVERYTHING, so the least we can do to honor them is to give this gift of life our all.
God Bless our Veterans
God Bless America
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15:13
I wanted to share with you my painting process……had so much fun painting this one!
(Detail)
“Mary & Jesus”
10″ x 22″ x 1.5″
acrylic over collage papers on cradled board
©Teresa Kogut, all rights reserved
Hope you enjoyed seeing the process….maybe someday when I figure out how, I can do some video…now that would be fun!
Wishing you a wonderful day!
Troy Hanna & Angela Kogut
wedding shower 05.19.12
What a great weekend! Started off Friday night at our friend’s house…hadn’t gotten together with this couple in a while so it was fun to catch up. Saturday morning I worked for a few hours then off to my beautiful niece’s wedding shower. Saw many people there that I hadn’t seen in a long time, too! After the shower, off to watch Ryan’s last bowling game. Came home, washed the card, washed the dog, weeded the flower gardens (which I hadn’t touched yet this spring so it was BAD) until about 8:30, then showered and off to the Eagles club to watch my hubbies band play.
Sunday morning went to church, did some cleaning, then off to Edge for cookout and relay race games all afternoon. Closed the weekend at Bubba’s for the karaoke semi-finals in which all three of the people I came to support are going on to the finals!! The place was packed and two tables were full of some of my closest friends! I love weekends like that……family, friends and fun. Hope yours was fun too!
NOW FOR A PRODUCTIVE WEEK
(so I can take Friday off….maybe????)
THE LORD MADE THEM
acrylic paint over collage papers on 18×24 cradled board
©Teresa Kogut
This is the latest painting to date…..I love her sweet face! This photo is only showing a partial of the original in which she has a long white dress on and the scripture verse will be on her dress in block letters…..I have yet to paint the text….hopefully today. The text you see here was typed in photoshop.
This verse speaks volumes and what a different world it would be if we all lived it. We are ALL children of God and He loves us equally. Whether young or old, man or woman, rich or poor, God made us all in His image!
I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday! Mine started out with a walk around the property with my dogs (I am an early riser, so everyone else was asleep). I then went into the studio and started to go through all the photos on my computer for Ryan’s 8th grade graduation coming up in a couple of weeks…..I laughed, I cried, I laughed again……So many great times we’ve had together as a family! Almost EVERY picture of Ryan was of him being silly and making funny faces! He had no idea these pictures could be in his classmates slideshow at the end of 8th grade! teehee
I teared up a bit because the pictures brought floods of memories back and I remember taking each photo as if it happened yesterday. The kids have grown soooo fast and when I stop and realize how fast time goes it disturbs me a bit and makes me want to spend every possible moment enjoying my family.
I had only gotten through year 2005 when the intercom went off…..it was Ryan….he had made me a Mother’s Day breakfast and was calling me up to the house to eat 🙂 It was a wonderful and delicious surprise!
After breakfast we went to mass, then spent the rest of the afternoon at my parents house for a cookout and outdoor games. A perfect day! Sunny, in the 70s with a nice breeze and best of all we were all together!
Kyle 19, Me, Ryan 14
My wonderful Mother 🙂
Kyle, Kevin, Me and Ryan
Ryan, Dad, Kyle and Mom
Kevin planted red Dianthus for Mom
Ryan and Dad
Ryans toss
Kevin and I took a walk around the property when we returned home….what a beautiful warm evening….and so still. You can see by the stillness of the pond below. A perfect end to a perfect day!
Wildflowers behind the spruce trees at the back of our property
The view of our house from across Kogut pond……
Wishing you all a fantastic week!!! and remember….
God never creates anything mediocre….you were born for greatness!
SANTA’S TREE & SNOWMAN PUNCH RUGS
Rug patterns now available! Spent most of today setting up the patterns on my new google site. It’s gettin’ there folks! A few more to add next week and hopefully get some handmade one-of-a-kinds up next week too…..oh, and maybe some more original paintings …but I don’t want to push it. I’m happy with the way it is turning out and I am grateful that technology has brought us far enough that any individual (without html knowledge) can set up and manage their own website! Can you say control freak?? teehee
Click here to see the patterns I have available.
Hope you have a fun weekend and wishing all you wonderful Mothers a Happy Mother’s Day!
I worked late last night to get the punchneedle patterns on the site! Check it out here or click on above "punchneedle patterns" tab.
I think this will frame better with the border….still an 8×10 for easy to find frames……what do you think?
AMERICANA
acrylic on antique board
©Teresa Kogut
I have been working many hours this week getting to know wordpress…I am figuring it out slowly. I finally, by the grace of God, figured out how to get my domain name teresakogut.com to come here to this site. I am not computer savvy at all and don’t know html in the least but I keep pressin’ on and it is coming together. So excited!
One thing I did decide to do for now is keep my blog over at blogger. It is more like a personal journal of my life’s happenings and a fun place to share recipes, photos of special occasions and random thoughts I want to share/discuss. Here I will tend to keep it more about my art, inspiration for my art, licensing ventures, new product releases and new pattern releases.
Hope you enjoy looking around……love my new bio page, hope you do too!
