Painting in my studio in Saint George, Utah
Completing the A Miraculous Request in two more weeks!
.........A MIRACULOUS REQUEST by Michael Bedard
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
"A Miraculous Request" by Michael Bedard
Completing the A Miraculous Request in two more weeks!
.........A MIRACULOUS REQUEST by Michael Bedard
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Why I Paint the Way I do
Traditional Realism
I choose traditional realism because it allows me to pull out the spirit and emotion of the person or persons I am painting, where the abstract form of painting points in directions that will never satisfy me. I want to make touch with all mankind as the audience of my art; that requires a common language, realism. The world we all live in.... light, joy, love, darkness, suffering and pain, is felt most acutely through the emotions, the best universal language of all, the human heart, the soul.
Michael Bedard
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sweetwater and the Willie and Martin Handcart Rescue
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| Express Riders These express riders were the advance charged with locating the coming wagon relief for the Willie and Martin Handcart Company.
 Ascending Rocky Ridge |
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| "Brigham's Call to Rescue" These are the first six wagons racing up Echo Canyon in answer to Brigham Young's call to rescue the stranded Willie and Martin Handcart Company of 1856. |
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Original Artwork for Sale 2011 by Michael Bedard
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| "Winter's End" Oil 18 x 24 $8,600 |
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| "Blue Alpine Trail" Oil 16 x 20 $6,400 |
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| "Singing Blue" Watercolor 15 x 17 $3,500 |
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
progress on "A Miraculous Request"
James Godson Bleak
Chief Recorder of the St. George Temple
"I was also present in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits of the Signers..., The spirits of the Presidents..., and also others, such as Martin Luther and John Wesley..., who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done, Wilford woodruff was baptized for all of them. While I and Brothers J.D.T. McAllister and David H. Cannon (who were witnesses to the request) were endowed for them. These men laid the foundation of this American Gov..., and signed the Declaration of Independence and were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth to perform this work. Martin Luther and John Wesley helped to release the people from religious bondage that held them during the dark ages. They also prepared the people's hearts so they would be ready to receive the restored gospel when the Lord sent it again to men on the earth."(Personal Journal of James Godson Bleak-chief recorder of the St. George Temple)
"I am going to bear my testimony to this assembly, if I never do it again in my life, that those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits not wicked men.
"I was also present in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits of the Signers..., The spirits of the Presidents..., and also others, such as Martin Luther and John Wesley..., who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done, Wilford woodruff was baptized for all of them. While I and Brothers J.D.T. McAllister and David H. Cannon (who were witnesses to the request) were endowed for them. These men laid the foundation of this American Gov..., and signed the Declaration of Independence and were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth to perform this work. Martin Luther and John Wesley helped to release the people from religious bondage that held them during the dark ages. They also prepared the people's hearts so they would be ready to receive the restored gospel when the Lord sent it again to men on the earth."(Personal Journal of James Godson Bleak-chief recorder of the St. George Temple)
"I am going to bear my testimony to this assembly, if I never do it again in my life, that those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits not wicked men.
General Washington and all the men that labored for that purpose were inspired of the Lord.
Another thing I am going to say here, because I have a right to say it. Every one of those men that signed the Declaration of Independence, with General Washington, called upon me, as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple at St. George, two consecutive nights, and demanded at my hands that I should go forth and attend to the ordinances of the House of God for them.... I told these brethren that it was their duty to go into the Temple and labor until they had got endowments for all of them. They did it. Would those spirits have called upon me, as an Elder in Israel to perform that work if they had not been noble spirits before God? They would not.” (Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report, April 1898, p. 89-90.)
Another thing I am going to say here, because I have a right to say it. Every one of those men that signed the Declaration of Independence, with General Washington, called upon me, as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple at St. George, two consecutive nights, and demanded at my hands that I should go forth and attend to the ordinances of the House of God for them.... I told these brethren that it was their duty to go into the Temple and labor until they had got endowments for all of them. They did it. Would those spirits have called upon me, as an Elder in Israel to perform that work if they had not been noble spirits before God? They would not.” (Wilford Woodruff, Conference Report, April 1898, p. 89-90.)
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