This lenten season, I am curating a collection of Before & Afters. We are ramping up to Easter, the biggest After in history—talk about a game changer! I am calling this the Before & After Project and I am getting lots of help from my dear friends.  Today’s Before & After comes with a bonus…read below (yes, this is a cliffhanger…to increase the sense of drama)…

Surprise!  Today is the first of two posts about my friend Esther’s creative process.  Tomorrow you will get a step by step account of Esther’s method for turning a photograph into a beautiful piece of art. She wrote about it on her blog and I shamelessly asked her to share it in its entirety here and…she said yes!

Tomorrow, tune in to find out HOW Esther turns a blank piece of paper into a work of art. So technically, today is the Before post…and tomorrow is the After…it’s like an enigma wrapped in a riddle…