“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!
All 4 gospels talk about Jesus’ arrest at Gethsemane, but John is the only one who describes what happens when Jesus tells them, “I am He.” I can just see one man in a simple robe staring down a group of heavily armed soldiers and,…
When you look at the painting as a whole, you can see the cracked earth of a desert riddled with thorns. At the top left, you can see a man dragging a cross through this unforgiving environment. The image represents the struggle of life that…
Jesus is the reason for the season. The greatest gift ever given. He came to sacrifice himself for each and all of us and did so upon the cross. Jesus no longer sleeps in a modified manger, and He is certainly not still nailed to…