This piece was filmed during its painting. The visual is simple enough – Jesus praying so intensely that He sweats blood. I wanted the painting not only to emphasize Jesus’ forehead, but also appear bright in contrast to the dark Gethsemane setting at the base of the Mount of Olives.
A purely conceptual piece, this painting is full of symbolism. At a glance, the imagery shows a woman with a sword in her hand walking through a field with arrows stuck in the ground around her – in the distance is a large fire. I’ll…
I little bit hard to see, “Lamb” shows a shepherd holding a young lamb. The brightest part of the painting is the hand securing the animal and not the sheep’s fleece. Mary’s little lamb this is not. A shepherd will search for a lost sheep…
I searched for as many names for Jesus as I could find and incorporated them into the “paragraph” – the more words used, the more detail I could show. Once the first, grueling step was completed, I used contrast layers to show the images of…