My Art
Discover my art and the inspiration behind my paintings. Explore what drives me to create and the stories that my artworks convey.
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Resurrecting Hope: Lifting Others With Love By Anita Louise Hummel
In a stunning departure from her usual oil painting medium, artist Anita Hummel presents a new ceramic tile mosaic piece titled Resurrecting Hope: Lifting Others With Love. This work is her entry in the 13th International Art Competition of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The competition, themed “Lift Up the Hands Which…
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The Red Flowers, By Anita Louise Hummel
The Red Flowers by Anita Louise Hummel is a painting that was inspired by bright red flowers. I initially saw these flowers on a rain jacket that a designer wore while walking down the runway in New York City’s famous fashion week. I fell in love with the colors and look of the flowers, so…
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Do I Look Fat? By Anita Louise Hummel, Original Painting (2017)
I love animals, and one animal I feel I can always relate to is the hippopotamus. I wonder how often other animals may come up behind them and tell the hippo they are fat. Do I Look Fat? By Anita Louise Hummel is a painting of a hippopotamus wearing a hot pink bikini and pink…
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Behind The Veil, By Anita Louise Hummel
Years ago, I was on a long journey traveling in a car through some parts of northern India. During part of the journey, I fell asleep and suddenly woke up and looked around – I was in the middle of a Muslim section of India where the women were all wearing burkas. Behind the Veil,…
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Elder Koda, By Anita Louise Art, Vietnam Hanoi Mission Mascot
Elder Koda is a painting of one of my very dear furry friends – Koda. Koda has spent many days and nights staying at my house: I am proud to be called his Auntie Anita. Elder Koda by Anita Louise Hummel is a painting of a purebred black poodle named Koda. Koda has lived the…
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It’s All Chinese, By Anita Louise Hummel
I have spent my life trying to learn to read and write fluent Chinese. No matter how much I study the Chinese language, I sometimes find that after a while one Chinese character may still look like another. It’s All Chinese by Anita Louise Hummel is an original oil painting inspired by my time trying to…
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Pirates Of The Gobi, By Anita Louise Hummel (2020)
When I traveled to Mongolia and stayed a night with a nomadic family in a Ger (Yurt) in the Gobi desert, the one thing I wanted to do was to ride a camel. The nomadic family that we stayed with had a herd of camels. Pirates of the Gobi by Anita Louise Hummel is an…
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Sisterhood, By Anita Louise Hummel, All Are Alike Unto God (2021)
As I travel around the world, I have discovered there are so many amazing people in the world, especially many amazing women. This painting, Sisterhood is in honor of these amazing women. Sisterhood by Anita Louise Hummel is a three-panel work of art that symbolizes that even if women worldwide speak different languages, have different…
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In The Peruvian Mountains, By Anita Louise Hummel, An Andean Woman
I love to paint women. Especially women from other parts of the world in their traditional clothing. In the Peruvian Mountains, by Anita Louise Hummel, is an original oil painting. The oil painting is of an Andean woman who lives up in the mountains of Peru. I painted her with bright and cheerful colors as…