Creating Art.

Creating art: continuing to add detail to the lion, woman, and background

Creating art: adding teardrops falling from the lion

Creating art: adding darkness and highlights to the lion and tears

Creating art: pausing to reflect on a partially finished piece with a lion weeping in front of a woman against a dark background

Creating art: adding the lion paw to the foreground

Creating art: a finished piece with a lion and a woman weeping together against a dark background

Reflecting on Pain...

Art is a visual exploration of ideas and life. I make art deeply rooted in my Christian faith. Here is an example of my process.
Ideas for drawings often come from reflection on Scripture, our interior life, and/or our life experience with God.
Usually I have a rough idea... and the image slowly emerges as I begin to put pencil to paper. I rarely have a concrete or complete picture in my mind. It is fuzzy and more conceptual than visual in my mind. But then I interact with God, praying the idea, and the creative process begins to feel like a conversation.
I will choose materials and tools based on the ideas and the emotions of the conversation with God. I might use pen and ink, collage, markers, Sharpies, pastels, acrylic or watercolor paints, oil paint, or even mixed media.
I will work a little while and then sit with the image intermittently to attend to God and to my own heart. I will seek to notice what is happening in me, my sense of the Spirit, and my sense of what the image needs to be whole and true. The process unfolds.

This page is for sharing the creative process. The drawing above was done October, 2023. I was reflecting on pain. Click on each box to follow the unfolding process that results in the final image.

Closeup of a Christian art piece with a woman weeping

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