Othling Pastels

Welcome to my web site! (Which is terminally under construction!) You may view original pastel paintings in the gallery, and even shop for giclée prints and note cards. I am no longer represented by any galleries so I can keep my original paintings affordable for you! Contact me at terri@othlingpastels.com for pricing information on original [...]

December 10, 2009….We will miss your sweet, gentle spirit… (the following prayer courtesy of Libbie+) Holy, holy, holy, perfect Lord of Hosts, heaven and earth are full of the holiness of your glory. You have created all creatures with your word. You carry them all without being weary, and feed them all without ceasing. You [...]

What is the crying at Jordan? Who hears, O God, the prophecy? Dark is the season, dark our hearts and shut to mystery. Lord, give us the grace to awake us, to see the branch that begins to bloom; in great humility is hid all heaven in a little room. – verses one and three [...]

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. (Psalm 127:1-2, [...]

Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead. (Isaiah 26:19, ESV, courtesy of Libbie+)

For the early church, Lent was just the opposite of a dreary season of restriction and self-torture. It was understood as an opportunity to return to normal life – the life of natural communion with God that was lost to us in the Fall. This perspective is clearly expressed in Eastern Orthodox liturgy and theology: [...]

Every year Christmas comes around again and forces us to deal with God in the context of demanding and inconvenient children; gatherings of family members, many of whom we spend the rest of the year avoiding; all the crasser forms of greed and commercialized materiality; garish lights and decorations. Or maybe the other way around: [...]

I have so loved all sense of Him, sweet might Of color and sound,- His tangible loveliness and living light That robes me round. – John Hall Wheelock, Exile from God

“When you painted on earth…it was because you caught glimpses of Heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too.” – C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

“If we have nothing above us we soon succumb to what is around us.” – English theologian P.T. Forsythe

It is finished! This is proof that color can make the most mundane of rooms seem divinely special! Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. [even in a bathroom!] -Oscar Wilde

“St. Anthony’s Church” in Cordova, NM Available soon in 18×24 and 8×10 image sizes on the SHOP page.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. – John Calvin (Photos taken in San Luis Valley, Colorado September 17, 2008)

Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon the trout that swim; Fresh firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscapes plotted and pieced-fold, fallow, and plough; And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim. All things [...]

“Observing the arid and unattractive character of most dogmatic theology of his time, [German theologian Urs von Balthasar] claims that unless we have a deep sense of beauty, not only will dogmatic theology remain bone dry and unconvincing, but we will also lose a proper sense of the good in the world…As fallen creatures living [...]

Giclée Prints and Note cards are now available to purchase through PayPal on the “Shop” page! Check it out!

For those wanting to know a little history of the Giclée printing process… Giclée (pronounced “zhee-clay” ), is an invented name for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word “giclée” is derived from the French language word “le gicleur” meaning “nozzle”, or more specifically “gicler” meaning [...]