Lenten Series 2015

Noah and the Rainbow

This post begins the self-assigned project to do a painting for each week of Lent.  From the Sunday readings I will pick a theme and then create some art that represents one or more of the ideas.

This Sunday we read that God made a covenant with Noah and all living beings that there would never again be a destructive flood to destroy all mortal beings.  The sign of this covenant is the rainbow.

This simple painting wasn't really so simple to create.  I started with the colors of the rainbow painted into the back ground,  Then I layered shapes using a gelli plate multiple times to get the block-like shapes which I made from hand-cut stencils.  After that I collaged some lightweight painted paper onto the shapes, outlined with ink, added decorative swirls and called it finished.

Leaving Indiana

Leaving Indiana

This watercolor was painted from memory of a scene in my side view mirror when returning from Indiana.  I was captured by the white sun and the silhouette of the trees.  I added scribbles of watercolor crayon to suggest fallen leaves.

Below is another version of this scene, this time done as a print using my new Gelli Plate and hand cut stencils.  Again, the focus is the white sun and this time there are stylized trees and shapes of color to suggest the fallen leaves. I used Golden Fluid Acrylics for the paint on the plate.

Gelli Print #1