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…

The feeling that this painting is meant to convey is that you are the Roman who nailed Jesus to the cross. You can see the top and sides of your helmet and your hand clenching the hammer poised over the nail. We are all sinners.…

Another painting that took a good while complete, the thorns almost drove me crazy. I am fairly pleased with how the painting turned out though. Amidst the thorns, you can just barley see the Arabic words spelling “grace.” I always recall the popular Sunday school…

David paled physically in comparison to the huge stature of Goliath. Not only that, but he had a formidable army behind him as well. I called this painting perspective not only because it makes the hand of David and his sling look like it could…

Jesus’ father was Joseph who worked hard for a meager living, and Jesus more than likely inherited his father’s work ethic. I was lucky enough to have a father with a high work ethic. The arms in this painting could belong to Joseph or Jesus…

The Bible is full of people disobeying or disregarding God and facing the consequences. Joshua 6 describes what happens when you follow His direction. An entire city falls to rams horns, priests, a bunch of shouting, and the power of God. If you look carefully…

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,…

I always imagined Samson as a brute. He was the strongest man that ever lived and I think that for most of his life, his arrogance and short temper fit his impressive technique to complete the cliché. It wasn’t until Samson’s last moments that he…

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…

“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…

The first chapter of Jonah describes a “huge fish” (verse 17 NIV) that swallowed Jonah whole. When people use the term biblical proportions, this large fish comes to my mind. The painting shows a bird’s eye view of an ancient ship in a rainstorm. There…

“Perceive” depicts the blind man whom Jesus healed outside of Jericho (Luke 18:35). Despite several people rebuking him, the blind man persistently begged Jesus to heal him. The Hebrew symbols reflected in his now functioning eye translates to “I am.” How awesome to have the…