OVERFLOWING TEA PARTY, 24"x 36", Oil, 2010

OVERFLOWING TEA PARTY has Lily sits looking at the sunset amongst a whimsical display of garden bridges, waterfalls, teapots and neatly trimmed topiaries.
Feelings of peace and joy overflowing when reflecting on God as in Psalm 23, my cup overflows! Teapots and topiaries, fountains and sunsets.

Overflowing

Dew's Topiary Garden, 2024
Dew's Garden by Michele Dodds, then painted using Photoshop

Dew's Garden

PUMPKIN PATCH, 20" x 16", Acrylic, by Michele G. Dodds 2019

PUMPKIN PATCH is place where you can meander through large pumpkins and have a few treats along the way.

Pumpkin Patch

          
Waterfalls. Created from three separate landscape paintings.
Michele G. Dodds 2019

Waterfalls

FOUR SEASONS, SPRING 16"x 20", Oil, 2007

Spring was the first painting of the four. The lines were extended to provide the basic design of the other three paintings.

Spring

FOUR SEASONS, SUMMER 16"x 20", Oil, 2007

Summer spirals out of Spring. The butterfly shape, lush growth and flow of bright colors remind me of Summer.

Summer

THREE TREES, 2005, Original Oil SOLD

THREE TREES stand grounded, in awe of God's beauty and the wonders that are to come just over the horizon. Their viewpoint encourages the viewer to look into the distance, to hope in God and that vast beyond which we all lack the ability to comprehend by our own means.

Three Trees

FOUR SEASONS 2, Natures Swirl, 48" x 36", Oil, 2014

Changing Seasons. The Swirl of Nature. God determined the times and seasons and the exact places were we should live, so that we would seek him and find him, for God is not far from each of us. Inspired by verse from Acts 17. 26-27. The amazing swirl of life. Spirals in Nature.

Four Seasons

FOUR SEASONS, WINTER 16"x 20", Oil, 2007

Beneath the Spring was the cold of Winter. The seasons change like clockwork...clockwise around and around. Time is like a spiral, created by God. God started it, understands it and is beyond it.

Winter

FOUR SEASONS, FALL 16"x 20", Oil, 2007

Fall flows clockwise into Winter. The Spring of life starts to store away in the Fall. We are reminded of death in the leaves of the trees in the Fall. It is a time to reflect and think of what really matters.

Fall

Photoshop
Tree of Light painting, manipulated in PS

Tree of Light

In My Heart, Oil, 20" x 24", 2014

IN MY HEART, Valentines painting, has Lily sitting in a huge heart looking into the beautiful sky. A checkboard path folds over the hills. Trees cast long shadows and spiral puffy clouds float in the sky. A Lovely Valentine. Also called God is Love.

In My Heart

LANDSTAGE VIEW, Oil, 28" x 22", 2006

Rolling whimsical landscape in plums and green tones.

Land Stage View

THE FLUME, 28" x 22", 2007. Original Oil Painting

THE FLUME is a fast flowing aquaduct with italian trees lining the water channel. Colorful sky with clouds on a farmland also pattern the abstract landscape.

Flume

SPIRAL GARDENS, 20" x 16", Acrylic, 2004, 2024

One of the first paintings. A whimsical garden of spiraling bushes, topiaries and arches. A cat sits at the top edge of a rolling hill overlooking a view. Colors are magentas and greens.

Spiral Gardens

     
Photoshop
Nearly Dawn painting from 2009 enhanced in PhotoShop

Lily At Dawn

BUBBLE LAND, Oil, Then digitally manipulated, 2020

Bubble Land is a place in my imagination.

Bubble Land

WATERFALL SKY, Original Oil, 14" x 11", 2019

By Michele G. Dodds

Waterfall Sky

Sand Castle 2019
3D Castle by Michele Dodds, then painted using Photoshop

Sand Castle

JUNGLE MURAL PAINTING for Lion King, Acrylics, 9' tall x 16', 2016
BY Michele G. Dodds

Jungle Mural

BETWEEN HERE AND THERE, 24"x 20", Oil, 2014

BETWEEN HERE AND THERE has Lily sitting in an surreal whimsical world looking towards a checkboard pathway that meanders into the distance. The image is set halfway between space and earth as if in a dream. A feeling of being in a place of limbo between here and there.

Between Here...

WHIRLY WORLD, Oil, 30" x 24", 2006

WHIIRLY WORLD is a whimsical landscape of topiaries land divisions and puffy clouds on a small world. Plum, Gold and green are the main colors.

Whirley World

TOPIARY PARTY, Original Oil, 20" x 16", 2003

TOPIARY PARTY is about topiaries having a great time inside a cake and others want to join, but they are left out.

Topiary Party

CLARITY, Oil, 16" x 20", 2014

CLARITY is a glowing landscape with a pathway that leads through two pear shaped trees that appear to be hugging the sun. A little one is just at the top of the pathway about to round the corner.

Clarity

FOUR SEASONS 1, 48" x 36", Oil, 2007

Four panels, 16" x 20", one for each season.
God determined the times and seasons and the exact places were we should live, so that we would seek him and find him, for God is not far from each of us. Inspired by verse from Acts 17. 26-27.

Four Seasons 1

    
Oil Painting

Canopy Skywalk

     
TEA POTS painting titled Overflowing.
OVERFLOWING TEA POTS painting is a combination of two paintings created using PS.
Tea Pot and Cup Fountain

Tea Pots

The Doorway, Oils 2004

One of the first paintings I did following leaving my job as an Art Director. It started a new chapter in my life of painting.

The Door

LUV BIRDS, 20" x 16", Oil, 2011

LUV BIRDS was painted as a wedding gift for my sister and her husband Caleb.

Luv Birds

LILY'S GARDEN, 30" x 24", Oil, 2008

LILY'S GARDEN is place where lily dreams and reflects about God in solitude and silence amongst a whimsical garden of neatly trimmed shrubs and topiaries.

Lily's Garden

WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, Large Set Backdrop, 23' x 10', 2015

Painted on large canvas for a school play.

Willy Wonka

PORTAL, Oil, 20" x 16", 2014

There is a small PORTAL at the end of a pathway in this colorful whimsical landscape.

Portal

FISH PIG, Oil, 16" x 48"

FISH PIG is and abstract dream-like landscape in orange and blues. It has a floating fish pig creature in a sky with bubbles and diamond shapes.

Floating Fishpig

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BY CANDLE LIGHT, 16"x 20", Oil, 2010

BY CANDLE LIGHT a little one leaves the safety of her home to venture into the unknown. The light from her faith in Christ guides her to go into the world to face whatever circumstances happen on life's journey. She knows she is never alone, that the Lord is always with her.

By Candle Light

Gillie Christmas 2019, 16"x 20", Oil, 2019

Painting by Michele G. Dodds.

Joy to the World

TWO TREES, Original Oil, 20" x 16", 2003

TWO TREES is a painting about two trees standing on a beautiful landscape looking into the future. Painted for Tyrone Wells and Erin Wells as a wedding gift.

Two Trees