Sacrifice (first run)

I was wrestling with the "computer generated art vs. painting on canvas" dilemma when I was reading in David Hawkins' Power vs. Force that hand-crafted, hand-painted images calibrate higher (mean more spiritually and are "better") with people than computer-generated images. That kind of told me what I have to do. Get busy. Here, though, is a first run of an image I found on a walk. I took my camera and was coming up with nothing of interest...until I asked God to give me SOMETHING. I looked down and this was some of what I found--I heard, "I laid down My life as a sacrifice."

Repeats...

The last couple of jobs that I'm working on have been "repeats!"

I did another version of the "peeling" paper for the Iron Chinchilla in Keller, TX. The original was on a retail wall; the next was on a trade show set. I'll post that pic soon.

Now, I'm working on another floor of Cross Timbers church in Keller! The huge children's mural has now moved upstairs. I have some added freedom in it, because I can more or less free hand the design since I've done it once. It's about 1800 square feet of mural; multiply that by 3 due to the paint and richer colors! I'll post some pics!
Click on 'em for larger views.

Reworking "Return to Eden 2" I think this will be the beginning of just "Return to Eden"
Getting there.

Title:

Choices

2007

The Lord gave me this one this morning. We make our own choices and our paths can be simple and truth-seeking; or we fake ourselves out and get off track. . .

Just so you know....

Finished.

Update: cortisone shot in one knee,
numb foot in same leg...HA!
Almost done...will finish TODAY!!!





That things don't go smoothly....hardly EVER in any job I do...this one is going to give me more than enough gray hairs for a year or so. The shape of the dome is football (!?!) and I should NEVER have taken it on. I hate heights, and it's a hand wrought dome with quirks and bumps that were not evident when it was one neutral color. Add to that my humanly imperfection, and a (what I thought was simple) design that requires DEAD ON CENTERING on a structure that is not perfectly set...and you have frustration to the nth degree.
I'm off today to get it right. There will be "iron" rods shooting off of the center dark design, and they must look good and straight visually.

Church mural

All images Copyrighted Cross Timbers Community Church

Just a few pics...you can get an idea of the size and it goes back farther from the bottom picture...it's about 300 linear feet...after painting it 3 times to get the paint to cover, it ended up pretty big! Design by Ryan Colon. I just painted it! :-)

Return to Eden 2

in process.......