Art by Lynn B. (Hutchins) Haney: Figure Drawings & Oil Paintings

Figure Drawings & Oil Paintings (from Life) These figures were drawn from life with charcoal, conte crayon, pastel, pencil, or ink on paper, or painted with oil on canvas or linen. Click on an image to see a larger version, more information, and price.

For those my unbaptised rhymes,
Writ in my wild unhallowed times;
For every sentence, clause, and word,
That's not inlaid with Thee, my Lord,
Forgive me, God, and blot each line
Out of my book that is not Thine.
But if, 'mongst all, Thou find'st here one
Worthy thy benediction;
That one of all the rest shall be
The glory of my work and me.
--Robert Herrick (1591-1674), "His Prayer For Absolution"

Prints: Some SOLD; many still available.

"And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed, and not to be able to estimate the worth and degree of each thing accordingly?"
--Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

"'Didn't you find drawing infernally difficult, Blyth, when you first began?'" "'I find it difficult still, Master Zack,' replied Mr Blyth. 'Art wouldn't be the glorious thing it is, if it wasn't all difficulty from beginning to end; if it didn't force out all the fine points in a man's character as soon as he takes to it.'"
--Wilkie Collins, in Hide and Seek (1854)

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There’s in you all that we believe of heaven,--
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
--Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved, Act i. Sc. 1.

Know the temptation ere you judge the crime!
Look on this tree--'twas green, and fair and graceful;
Yet now, save these few shoots, how dry and rotten!
Thou canst not tell the cause. Not long ago,
A neighbor oak, with which its roots were twined,
In falling wrenched them with such cruel force,
That though we covered them again with care,
Its beauty withered, and it pined away.
So, could we look into the human breast,
How oft the fatal blight that meets our view,
Should we trace down to the torn, bleeding fibres
Of a too trusting heart--where it were shame,
For pitying tears, to give contempt or blame.
--"Street Walks," as quoted in
Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848)

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"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty."
--Samuel Chase (1741-1811), signer of Declaration of Independence, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; in the case of Runkel v. Winemiller, 1799.

"If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God."
--Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British physicist and mathematician, Trans-Altantic Cable

"If you do not understand the condition of fallen man, you do not and cannot rightly understand any other doctrine of God's word." --L. R. Shelton, Sr., "The Bondage of the Sinner's Will"

"How frail is the heart! How dim is human foresight! We behold the gilded bait of temptation, and know not until taught by experience, that the admission of one errour is but the introduction of calamity. One mistake imperceptibly leads to another -- but the consequences of the whole bursting suddenly on the devoted head of an unfortunate wanderer, becomes intolerable."
--William Hill Brown, in The Power of Sympathy (1789)

"But it had not been in Tess's power -- nor is it in anybody's power -- to feel the whole truth of golden opinions while it is possible to profit by them."
--Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), in Tess of the d'Urbervilles

"Appreciate an occasional mistake, for it may well become a path to discovery." --Unknown "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." --Sophocles (ca. 495-406 B.C.) "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." --George E. Woodberry

"The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility." --Proverbs 15:33 "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." --Proverbs 16:18 "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him." --Proverbs 26:12 "The excellence that makes every other excellence amiable is HUMILITY." --Samuel Richardson, in Clarissa (1747-48)

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And ye that wont with greedy vaine desire
To reade my fault, and wondring at my flame,
To warme your selues at my wide sparckling fire,
Sith now that heat is quenched, quench my blame,
And in her ashes shrowd my dying shame:
For who my passed follies now pursewes,
Beginnes his owne, and my old fault renewes.
--Edmund Spenser (1552-1599),
from "An Hymne of Heavenly Love"

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"Reade not to contradict and confute; nor to beleeve and take for granted; nor to find talke and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
--Francis Bacon (1561-1626), in "Of Studies," in The Essayes, or Counsels Civill & Morall

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O, thou for whom
And from whom I was formed flesh of thy flesh,
And without whom am to no end, my guide
And head!
--Eve's first greeting to Adam
in John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book IV

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
--attributed to Patrick Henry (1736-1799), American Revolutionary leader and orator

Commissioned

"Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend. The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. According to their quality, they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them."
--Edmund Burke, in Letters on a Regicide Peace, I, 1796.

"People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which [even] the most insignificant success is achieved."
--Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher)

"Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it."
--Lady Duff-Gordon (Titanic survivor)

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heauenly grace doth him vphold,
And stedfast truth acquite him out of all.
Her loue is firme, her care continuall,
So oft as he through his owne foolish pride,
Or weaknesse is to sinfull bands made thrall:
Else should this Redcrosse knight in bands haue dyde,
For whose deliuerance she this Prince doth thither guide.
--Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), The Faerie Qveene, Book I, Cant. VIII, stanza 1.

"The Hand. . . Evincing Design, and Illustrating the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God."
--Charles Bell (1774-1842), anatomist and surgeon

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"It [my greatest discovery] was not chloroform. My greatest discovery has been to know that I am a sinner and that I could be saved by the grace of God." --James Young Simpson, scientist (1811-1870)

"I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance." --Luke 15:7

"No matter how far you've gone down a wrong road, turn back." --Turkish proverb

"There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief."--Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

"Vice hath not, I believe, a more abject slave; society produces not a more odious vermin; nor can the devil receive a guest more worthy of him, nor possibly more welcome to him, than a slanderer." --Henry Fielding, in Tom Jones (1749)

"The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it; ignorance may deride it; malice may distort it; but in the end, there it is." --Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Experiments in Drawing from the Imagination (No Model)

...Yet through the labyrinths, not my groveling wit,
But Thy silk-twist let down from heav'n to me,
Did both conduct and teach me how by it
To climb to Thee.
--George Herbert (1593-1633), from "The Pearl"

The wood-nymphs hail my airs and temper'd shade,
With ditties soft and lightly sportive dance,
On river margin of some bow'ry glade,
And strew their fresh buds as my steps advance....
--Ann Radcliffe, from "Song of the Evening Hour," in The Mysteries of Udopho (1794)

I woke the fairy elves, who shun the light;
When, from their blossom'd beds, they slily peep,
And spy my pale star, leading on the night,--
Forth to their games and revelry they leap....
--Ann Radcliffe, from "Song of the Evening Hour,"
in The Mysteries of Udopho (1794)

Commissioned for a CD cover.
Original is for sale.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear,
Or like a fairy trip upon the green,
Or like a nymph, with long dishevell'd hair,
Dance on the sands, and yet no footing seen.
--William Shakespeare, in Venus and Adonis (1593)

              My God, ...
              Teach me Thy love to know;
     That this new light, which now I see,
     May both the work and workman show;
Then by a sunne-beam I wll climb to Thee.
--George Herbert (1593-1633), from "Mattens"

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            O that I could sinne once see!
            We paint the devil foul, yet he
            Hath some good in him, all agree:
Sinne is sat opposite to th' Almighty, seeing
It wants the good of vertue and of being.

            But God more care of us hath had;
            If apparitions make us sad,
            By eight of sinne we should grow mad.
Yet as in sleep we see foul death, and live,
So devils are our sinnes in perspective.

--George Herbert (1593-1633), "Sinne"

At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time,
When you set your fancies free....
--Robert Browning (1812-1889), from "Epilogue to Asolando"

O soul-enchanting poesy,
Thou'st long been all the world with me. . . .
--John Clare (1793-1864), from "The Progress of Rhyme"

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