family stations

Thought I'd chuck in some pics of the fam spending time each at our own respective area's of creativity. A is on the sowing machine making a pencil roll, J is painting an inner sole he found in the drive way and T is painting some interesting things on a piece of green paper behind her is her canvass started the same time as mine.

The new installment....Partially

I only posted the other day but that's alright I have made myself busy developing this latest installment unfortunately the lighting for the pics isn't fantastic and sadly i couldn't be bothered doing anything about it, a bit like my typo's.
Anyways I chose blue for the color of the flame as it resembles the Holy Spirit and even though Jesus was filled with all sin I believe that the Holy Spirit was still present to give the strength to complete this aspect, if not the main point, of his task/goal/mission whilst here.
You'll notice also an etching in there and that is of a heart. As Jesus was the son of God, I feel that a heart was best to resemble not only Jesus but God's love for humanity, surrounded by the fire of the Holy Spirit.

So its been a while but even though it has been a couple of weeks since a last posted I've come up with the goods.
I decided the background would be a sunset, the swirls and colors etc. was to emphasise the drama etc with the general theme of the piece, also a sense of time as in the end of a day or in this case a completion of a mammoth task.

There is a slight etching in the tree that I am currently working on and will ave that installment shortly.

Mon. Dec 13th

So after the many hours working on the apple I did some little changes. And even though it's well over a week old I'm finally up to date with the blog and progress  on the canvass. A, bought me some black gesso and new brushes and I decided to get the apple rid of the illuminating glow I attempted, I've also added a tomb in the background that is open so there is no surprise as to what the painting is interpreting...my original goal of working on this for a year is speedily coming to an end. I reckon it wont last the quarter...but I will finish this and than stretch out another canvas the same size.

This little dude was the first image placed, consisting of charcoal, oils and aerosol paint

still needs a little work

Pretty much te whole thing is done with acrylics, which pretty much is my standard medium, there is still  couple more ideas that I could use alternate mediums to acrylic but that will have to wait...my point in starting this canvas was to use varied mediums, but I have proved once again I am a creature of habit.....

A little inspiration

An old tarpoline to place some old newspaper cuttings

I collected these items above, some over a year ago I enjoy the colors and textures etc.

Apple?

The following images came about between 28th November and 30th November '10, the apple is seen as good at first, but once bitten it is found to be rotten hence the worm. The obvious symbolism of "the forbidden fruit" is there. But it's not just that but the thought of not seeking God first in all things and in that seeking the submission of the desire to "eat of the fruit"(the things that separate us from God), before we realize that what we have just done has given us nothing but a rotten taste in our mouth...

I thought of adding a hidden image of a skull...

...But than when I added a green tinge to the apple it looked a Little like Elvis, if you remove the glare

I thought the worm would add the effect I wanted the skull to have....

Maybe a slightly more attractive apple....maybe?

Not quite what I in visioned but it works

Then there was tree

The tree was created on the 22nd of November....

November 17 2010-a new start

So I started a new canvas on 17th November and now 1st December have decided to make a blog of it and other things that come along.

The Canvas is 1mx1.2m and I am attempting to work on it for a year and here are the first images of it thus far.

You'll notce a second canvas there, that is T's, my daughter, this was a project aimed at the kids as we are natural learning home schoolers, but I have taken kinda "stolen" the idea for myself, but tat is ok as it, in a way, gives a chance for me and the kids to spend time together.