"Help us, O God of our salvation! Help us for the glory of your name." Psalm 79:9
The driveway is surrounded by two foot snow banks except for beside the south facing side of the house. When blasted by sunshine the snow melts quicker here than anywhere else in the yard. It's sheltered from the cool March breeze, too. The soft green shoots of crocuses are making an appearance in this mini-tropical zone. Each year, these early signs of spring are a welcome sight!
My granddaughter and have been connecting for a weekly art lesson via Zoom. She is interested in fashion and would like to know how to draw her designs. It's the one area I have very little experience with so I told her I don't know much about it.
We didn't have a session last week due to March break, the annual school holiday here in Canada, but I spent some time sketching a figure in a ball gown. The figure basically amounted to a coat hanger with legs and a head and worked very well. It helped me discover that I had missed the point of fashion art...it's about the clothes, it's not a portrait. I think I can help her find her style of drawing designs. Starting with the clothes hanger person. It's exciting to be able to open the door for her and see what happens!
Since starting to explore the Art of Prayer, I have wrestled with sharing the artwork created during my own time with God. It's the old guilt/discomfort that it will make others feel badly about what they can draw or paint. (It would be better not to show it if that's the case.) It might stop others from venturing into this prayer format because of their own inexperience with art...yada, yada, yada....
Is it arrogance and pride?
Or is it something different altogether?
This particular broken feather still has the power to tickle my conscience. Regardless, it's not of God so I will continue to share when led to do so by the Holy Spirit. His is the Voice I choose to listen to.
There is no such thing as coincidence.
A Ted talks video came across my path the other night by Graham Shaw. It's a fun and lighthearted exploration about "Why people believe they can't draw."
It's worth checking out!
In the video, C's and sixes, dashes and short lines create the recognizable features of a face. Graham simply changes the size of the C's and lines to create a completely different face! It's fascinating how easy it is to depict emotion and expression by moving a line up or down, left or right.
Did you know graphic designers don't have to know how to draw? Trace, copy and paste is how they create.
Did you know very few artists are celebrated as masters until after they are dead?
Just sayin'.
There was an artist, James Lumbar, who would do a landscape then superimpose a ghostly image from the past. His paintings started out as a powerful and poignant illustration of the passage of time. The popularity of his work caused him to systematically produce painting after painting along this theme. He lost something along the way. His later works, while technically great, lost the ability to stir the heart.
Maybe that's all art is: a way to stir the heart and the imagination.
If a coat hanger with a head and legs can invoke images of a tall, lithe model, anything is possible!
(Smile.) And I have no problem waiting until I am in heaven to be famous. AMEN!
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