“Furnace” was and still is the painting that took the longest to complete. I tried a new technique and it was far from perfected at the time. I wanted to only use 2 colors (or really one – darker and lighter) to show Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego engulfed in the flames of the furnace described in the third chapter of Daniel. You can find them in the painting along with a fourth. Imagine being there and seeing another figure in a fire 7 times more intense than usual protecting the 3 men!
At the place of the skull Jesus was crucified. I am constantly surprised at how much emphasis people put on Jesus on the cross. To me, it is much more powerful to know that Jesus is no longer on the cross and resurrected from the…
The focus of this painting is on Jesus’ eyes. I’ve heard a preacher describe them as pools of everlasting love, and I tried to show all the emotion through the eyes only here. Jesus stares directly at you (focused on you) with eternal love. His…
When people were crowding Jesus to hear him speak, He climbed into a boat and asked Peter to push it out from shore. Peter obeyed. After Jesus finished teaching, he told Peter to gout and fish, but they had worked hard all night and caught…