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 STRAWBERRIES FIND THEIR WAY INTO MY MOST RECENT PAINTING TO BE COMPETED; May 2023! Since the inception of the painting ; "HOPE OF THE WORLD II - 85 CHIEFS A REMNANT OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL", I felt somehow the wives the these chiefs should be included in the painting even though at the time I new  work had not been completed for them. The answer came to me one night when Pamela and I had Manti and his good wife over for dinner. At the end of the meal Manti shared with us the story: "How the strawberry came to the Cherokee people"  In the beginning of the world, ga lv la di e hi — Father to us...

Gustave Courbet father of realist painting, "The Stone Cutters",  comparing "Some Must Pull and Some Pull" & Brother's keeper  Willie and martin handcart co. 1857. by Michael Bedard. I can see my self in his work and other realist painters.

  Isaiah Chapter 2:1-3 Isaiah sees the latter-day temple, gathering of Israel, and millennial judgment and peace—The proud and wicked will be brought low at the Second Coming— The word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the  last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s  house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us group to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk...

Anthology of Nauvoo’s Past, Present, and Future Artist and Auther Michael Bedard ©  This is a wonderful problem to deal with in the same space; to see past present and future at the same time?!  Its an a humble attempt to see the way God see's his own creations. The painting is on linen stretched  I am using a clear gesso on the first layer. I love the look and feel of linen.  It is a very strong material and has been around for over 6,000 years. To me linen because of these two qualities have a timeless beauty for it endures. I have a lot of fun things I will do with painting before it  is finished. Michael Bedard

      The 'Father and The Son",  Appear to Joseph Smith's earnest prayer in the early spring of 1820 This is part of my family from left to right;Elisabeth,John, Abraham,Pamela my wife and friend for forty years now, and myself in front of the The Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith family farm. The Smiths moved here to Palmyra, New York, between 1816 and 1817 to farm wheat, fruit and harvest maple syrup on their 100-acre lot dense forest. Every foot was full of tree and brush which had to be cleared one acre at a time. No easy task I can tell you from my own personal experience when I bought a seven acre lot four miles outside of...