Tuesday, January 22, 2008

My Favorite Painting -- Titled: Relationships

This is my favorite painting - hands down! It has been my most criticized piece for sure - but I still love it the best!

I like it because it makes me think of so many things and my imagination can just run free!

At the time I was painting it, I was stuck in a rut of perfectionism trying to make everything look perfectly real and I just wanted to paint for the sake of painting. Just to play with colours and see if they work well together.

As the painting began to take shape, I was considering relationships, mankind, the human race and how we have interacted and intermixed over time.

When you look at this piece for a length of time, you will see movement. (maybe its just my lazy eye) Some of the colours seem to interact, mingle and dance, some colours attract each other -- others repel. Some colours push their way to the front -- others recede as if there is a struggle for power.

Its not that I think my workmanship is so grand - I try my best to give God all the glory - to me this represents the freedom to overcome perfectionism and if that's why I have painted this artwork then is job has been accomplished.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Wait Expectantly

On New Years Eve I had planned on attending a house party - after talking to a friend we both felt the same - that something was missing. God was being left out. We called anyone who was available and decided to spend some time at the church praying.


The message was clear to us that in 2008 we are to "wait expectantly" on the Lord. We walked around the church and prayed for every seat, and every musician and every person that would attend - the presence of God was so strong...So we say even so Lord come! Do something great in our midst.