Visiting the Golden Age of Spanish Art exhibition at the Kunsthalle Munich with my daughter in March, I was struck by Counter Reformation master Alonso Cano’s powerful, lifelike polychrome bust of Paul, from 1660. Based on many preparatory drawings, sketches and photos made at the exhibit, I created this three-color silkscreen. The handmade screens themselves are hand-painted separations. […]
Here is a ballpoint pen and ink wash illustration from Mark 5, the account of Christ healing the Gerasene demoniac.
Whether I destroy this or save it, I don’t care. I’m finishing this tonight. Tired of it taking up space in my studio/head.
A sketchbook page in watercolor and pencil, 8×5″. After William Blake’s superb 1803 watercolor on the subject of John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
The Greek theoreo (theh-o-reh’-o) is used throughout the New Testament. Apparently we get the word “theater” from it. It denotes the act of observing at a distance, watching.
Sometimes filling a sketchbook creates strange, unintentional juxtapositions. On the left: Dr. Nicholas Ellen, preaching. Right: damned man wailing from the pit of Hell in Cranach’s Last Judgement, from the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City.
This is a small watercolor sketch from my journal, describing an image I had in my head regarding Lewis’s concept of the “weight of glory”. The pathetic man, riding on the back of his flesh, cannot escape the reality of God’s glory. Though I do regret the “superstar!” pose of the nondescript heavenly being, there is some […]