After a visit to an art gallery or museum, 9 out of 10 times, I come back home with an idea for my next project. I enjoy painting, although I have a lot left to learn in this creative area. My favorite mediums include oils, acrylics, oil pastels, and ink.
I recently appreciated the Frist’s Georgia O’Keefe exhibit. I have analyzed her pastels for over a decade now-it first started with a previous Girl Scout leader, Robin Marie Shaff-and after all this time, a few books, and a few galleries, I still enjoy the feeling of being consumed in the earthy and placid colors that O’Keefe delicately washed her canvases in.
Jackson Pollock was at the forefront of the abstract expressionist movement during the 1940s and 1950s, although he was not widely accepted or praised for his style and technique, which was categorized as “action painting” by Harold Rosenberg in a 1952 article, just four years before untimely Pollock’s death.
I am not just writing all of this to give insight into my art preferences, but to link where I am at in terms of life. I enjoy others’ art and it assists me in looking past it to see the people and their life’s stories. I hope that my art, be it through acrylics or in word, does the same-but not for my glory, but for God’s. I am but a canvas with a few sketches upon its rough surface. I am not an empty canvas, for God has already begun His work in me. I look forward to see what He will do next, what paints are chosen, what technique implemented-all to further His kingdom and glory.
