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

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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 birthed through dreams, visions and divine revelation.  We can see several examples of this in the Old Testament.  In this type of spiritual art, the artist is inspired to paint ” something they perceive that the Holy Spirit is speaking”  to the heart of man.  A deep calling unto deep!  When one views this type of art there will be an emotional response in the viewer.  This is a visual speech that may cause us to respond with  ” Yes,  Lord I hear you voice and feel your heart! “  This is a communication between God and the person looking at the art.

Visio Divina births art through meditation and prayer.  It too uses color, symbol, images, movement, and sound.  This is the more ancient form of spiritual art and we see it used in the creation of Iconic art.  If you have read the previous blogs you will see some examples of ancient and modern Iconic art.

As a student and teacher of both styles of spiritual or mystical art,  I thought I would create a painting using both disciplines.  Over the next several weeks you and I can work together to produce this painting.  We will walk through this process together through blogging, comments and pictures of the painting in process.  If you are an artist and would like to try your hand at this type of painting let me know in the comment section and I can also work with you through email.

If you would like more information on the Prophetic from a spiritual perspective,  go to my blog site ” www. cosmicwayshower.com “  Also, there is a link on my Blogroll which is located in the top left hand corner of this page, below the six pictures of my artwork.

I found this quote from Elizabeth Barrett Browning that I thought you would enjoy:

Earth crammed with heaven

and every common bush

on fire with God;

But only he who sees takes off  his shoes,

the rest sit around it

and pluck blackberries!