“Sonrise” is a very simple idea, but the imagery of this painting is immensely powerful to me personally. A ripped cloth remains nailed to the cross. The scene is designed to be set on the third morning sunrise behind the cross. The title is a play on words as God’s Son, Jesus Christ rose that day as well. The lighting was very difficult for me to paint and this painting was one that I had to continually repaint to get the look I wanted.
Jesus fulfills a prophecy when He rides a donkey into Jerusalem and the people put their coats and palm braches on the street. The painting is a fairly simple concept, but it was very hard to pull off. Did you know that palm braches have…
Mark 5 tells us of an ill woman who had so much faith in the power of Jesus Christ that she, to be healed, reached out just to touch a scrap of His clothing. In a crowded place with a lot of attention on Him,…
An optical illusion at the top of the tower in the painting makes the stairs appear to always ascend but never move higher is inspired by M. C. Escher’s 1960 “Ascending and Descending” lithograph. The illusion is created with a play on perspective that is…
