
"In God We Trust" – The Making of a Painting – Part 1
This is the first blog of a four-part series where I am going to invite you to join me as I talk through my process of creating a painting.
There are times when this process is both exhilarating and exhausting. It can push me mentally, emotionally and physically. But the rewards are so fulfilling.
Over the next few weeks, I will relate several aspects of the creative process, like:
When walking this path from a blank panel and jars of paint to a completed work of art, I realize it is so much like this path I walk called "life". It has all of the pain, the joy, the struggles, and the freedom that I experience daily as I live outside these studio walls.
Join me as I recount the making of a new painting, “In God We Trust”.
There are times when this process is both exhilarating and exhausting. It can push me mentally, emotionally and physically. But the rewards are so fulfilling.
Over the next few weeks, I will relate several aspects of the creative process, like:
- Concept – a thought worth painting
- Application – a painting worth pursuing
- Result – a pursuit worth achieving
When walking this path from a blank panel and jars of paint to a completed work of art, I realize it is so much like this path I walk called "life". It has all of the pain, the joy, the struggles, and the freedom that I experience daily as I live outside these studio walls.
Join me as I recount the making of a new painting, “In God We Trust”.