Visio Divina – Have you ever Hit a Creative Wall while Painting a Picture?
This past week while working on this painting of “The World Within; a Journey in Meditation,” the creative door slammed shut. No creative “juices” were flowing…nada..nothing, I was at a stand still! Can you identify? This process seems to happen periodically to [...]
Creating Visio Divina
In today’s blog I’ll show how I develop a mystical or contemplative painting.
This type of painting would classically be called “Visio Divina” or “Divine Seeing”. If you would like more information, there is an earlier blog written on this subject. Because of my work as a spiritual director and a practitioner of [...]
Defining Prophetic Art
God is always speaking through creation. One way God speaks through mankind is in the arts. As artists we can be inspired by the Holy Spirit to portray facets of ” Who God Is ” through the use of color, symbols, movements, sounds and images.
starting a prophetic painting
Prophetic art most often is [...]
Our Creativity is God’s Gift to Us, and by Opening this Gift, and Using our Creativity, we Give this Gift back to God!
” The Artist Way, ” by Julia Cameron is a great book that has been around for awhile and should not be forgotten. This 12 week program is almost guaranteed to work if [...]
The Power of Image
The eyes are the window to the soul. “Images” influence you and me everyday through advertising, entertainment and news shows, magazines, etc and everything we look at in daily life. These images speak to us and influence our lives, as individuals, as a culture and how we “picture” life. [...]