Live Painting
Haysville Christian Church
This painting was picked up by Pastor Kurt and his wife Nalene today, so I can officially share the completed image online now! This 4' x 5' painting was created live at Haysville Christian Church as an accompaniment Pastor Kurt Henson sermon series, “Life as Art.” Kurt Henson, the pastor at HCC, had contacted me via Facebook. During our preliminary conversations we realized he was actually the pastor who baptized me years previous. It was definitely a blessing to reconnect with him and his wife and be involved in such a creative project with his church. Kurt was interested in having me design a painting from my Joyflow series that would be inspired by the church’s theme of “Gather, Grow, and Go.” After the initial two hours spent painting live at the church, I took this home and spent about another 15 hours working on it.
The Joyflow series is one I’ve been working on intermittently for nearly 10 years. It includes a symbolic set of lines that are used to conceptually explore various aspects of my faith in Christ and my belief in the Bible. Within the series, yellow lines represent God the Father; green lines depict Yeshua, and magenta lines portray the Holy Spirit.
This newest addition to the series, entitled “Go Ye Therfore (Matthew 28:19-20),” features the green Yeshua line in the center of a swirl of other lines meant to loosely represent a tree. I like the inherent ideas of growth involved with a tree and felt it fit nicely with the church’s theme of “Gather, Grow, Go.” The various blue and violet lines represent the church members as they gather together around the Yeshua, the Word of God. As they make their way up the tree, the lines grow wider and even begin to branch off, forming new lines. Not only does this add to the suggestion of the tree, but it also represents the individual growth of the congregation. The new branches are disciples being made as the church members step out boldly and share their faith; nurturing the spiritual growth of new believers. The lines also each head off in a different direction as they go into the world, equipped to follow the Great Commission at the end of Matthew 28. Thus, as you make your way up the “tree” we see the lines fulfilling the church’s mission to Gather, Grow, and Go.
The red circles are meant to depict the unsaved being drawn towards the light of the church. As they welcomed and baptized into the church, they become the good fruit brought forth from the church. This becomes an illustration of Matthew 7:17, “…every good tree bringeth forth good fruit…” The background is washed in yellows and oranges representing the presence of God, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
The Joyflow series is one I’ve been working on intermittently for nearly 10 years. It includes a symbolic set of lines that are used to conceptually explore various aspects of my faith in Christ and my belief in the Bible. Within the series, yellow lines represent God the Father; green lines depict Yeshua, and magenta lines portray the Holy Spirit.
This newest addition to the series, entitled “Go Ye Therfore (Matthew 28:19-20),” features the green Yeshua line in the center of a swirl of other lines meant to loosely represent a tree. I like the inherent ideas of growth involved with a tree and felt it fit nicely with the church’s theme of “Gather, Grow, Go.” The various blue and violet lines represent the church members as they gather together around the Yeshua, the Word of God. As they make their way up the tree, the lines grow wider and even begin to branch off, forming new lines. Not only does this add to the suggestion of the tree, but it also represents the individual growth of the congregation. The new branches are disciples being made as the church members step out boldly and share their faith; nurturing the spiritual growth of new believers. The lines also each head off in a different direction as they go into the world, equipped to follow the Great Commission at the end of Matthew 28. Thus, as you make your way up the “tree” we see the lines fulfilling the church’s mission to Gather, Grow, and Go.
The red circles are meant to depict the unsaved being drawn towards the light of the church. As they welcomed and baptized into the church, they become the good fruit brought forth from the church. This becomes an illustration of Matthew 7:17, “…every good tree bringeth forth good fruit…” The background is washed in yellows and oranges representing the presence of God, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”
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