The Body

I took this image of leaves in the street and manipu-lated it. This is what came to me. We see the bright and flashy "real" colors of that which is corporeal here on the earth...but we long for the Spiritual realm...we can see the Light and the promise of it..and catch glimpses of it. We try to reach into it and grab hold, but sometimes the "real" world keeps snatching us back. The Body is really that Spirit working within our fleshly selves...that glimpse into joy and happiness that is the true, REAL realm.

I can't decide if I want it positioned this way or flip it lengthwise so the lighter part is top. I started this way because if the lighter part is up, then that makes the Spiritual realm "up there" and although I like that look....this way shows that the Spiritual realm and "our" realm coincide and interact. What do you think?

Church Mural

The upstairs at the church that I did another mural of this type on the DOWN stairs...These pictures don't include the Treehouse room...the biggest room. I'll add that in a few days. One room is the "Lake Room" and another is the "Camp Room"

All the walls in the rooms are painted.

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.