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Watercolor Grapes, 09-07, 14" x 17", Watercolor Poppies, 11-07, 14" x 17".
The quiet ponderance of our lives
Allowing our unspoken part to rise
To hold our hearts and fill our minds
Giving way to questions that define
And ignite us. Yet, willing, we walk away
And let life's answers unfold as they may.
DW -2007
"Smokey Mountain Homestead" 16" x 20", oil on canvas, 2008, Property of DWoodall
Reflective Perspective
DW  2006

It started out just you and me
An envelope of deity
The awesome scene surrounding me:
Unspoken praise

But other voices entered in-
Motion snatched my conscious when
My peaceful, sweet gave way to 'then':
Intruding haze.

And soon the present noise drowned out
The beauty it was all about
And left benind frustration's doubt:
A downward gaze.

A photograph within my hand
A lovely site sprang up again
An bit me come and gaze and stand:
My vision raise.

How was it I was blinded to
The beauty I could share with you
And took instead a soiled spew
A hateful maze.

So come and change my subvert mind
Beauty before, dark paths behind
Accompanied by a kinder kind
Renewed by grace.
"Taos Pueblo" 2008, 11" x 14" oil on canvas, property of Donna Woodall
This painting of Steel Creek on the Buffalo National River in Northern Arkansas is 24x36 inches.  I began it years ago as an example of setting on a painting on site to finish in the studio.  It was begun in acrylic in the 90's and then misplaced until our move in 2004.  About 6 months ago I found the resources I had taken that day.  I finished it in oil recently.
The picture was of a transplanted elk herd at the base of a massive bluff line when the state first began repopulation of displaced species.  Their first effort was not overly successful but after changes the experiment worked and we now have a healthy elk herd in northern Arkansas. 
"Steelcreek Project" 1995-2008, 24" by 36" oil on canvas.  Property of Donna Woodall
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