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Beyond the velvet ropes

April 29, 2013

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again — I dwell among the people.”  John Henry Newman I love art museums, but there’s something a little intimidating about them. It might be the elegance of the soft lighting, shiny floors and heavy gilt frames....

Palette of possibilities

April 22, 2013

But he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. Luke 18:27 ASV I started looking at this photo and could barely pull my eyes away. Look at it a minute, really look. Let your eyes wander across the colors, dwelling on the ones that catch your eye. Notice the watery mixes and...

A pale reproduction

March 16, 2013

In printing, an image is broken down into four basic colors — cyan (blue), magenta (pink), yellow and black. If you look through a magnifier, you will see that any printed photo is made up of different-sized colored dots. If you step back a little bit, or blur your eyes, it looks like a photo or...

Experimenting

February 5, 2013

Is this art, or is it just play? This particular image was made by melting crayons and letting them run across the page in different directions. (And then they turned it upside down — what a great idea.) Sounds like play to me. But it’s also a kind of art. Maybe it doesn’t require extraordinary...

It's official

February 4, 2013

Tyndale will be publishing The Art of Praying Upside Down in 2015! I’m feeling excited, nervous, overwhelmed and hopeful, all at once. I feel like God has thrown open the doors — and the windows — and said, GO! It’s time! You might need to remind me every once in a while what I wrote...

It's official

February 4, 2013

Tyndale will be publishing The Art of Praying Upside Down in 2015! I’m feeling excited, nervous, overwhelmed and hopeful, all at once. I feel like God has thrown open the doors — and the windows — and said, GO! It’s time! You might need to remind me every once in a while what I wrote...

A blank canvas

January 28, 2013

It can be a bit intimidating to get started. That may be true in whatever it is that you’re doing, but especially if you’re creating art. That blank canvas… So much possibility. Possibility — or pressure? Depends on why you’re creating it, I suppose. If someone hired you to do a masterpiece, if you had a...

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