Creating Art.

Reflecting on Pain...

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• 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.​

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