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January 16, 2022
Religious Freedom Day
The right of Religous Freedom, it was drafted in 1777 by Thomas Jefferson, and placed before the Virginia General Assembly who later enacted it into law. This writing became the basis for the First Ammendment protecting Religious Freedom. In 1993 the President of the United States declared it a national day, the date chosen was January 16. This was the day in the first month of the year when it later became law in Virginia.
Religious Freedom day celebrates the right to worship freely in a free country. It is on this day we recognize that not all countries share this blessing. Let us pray for every Christian in persecuted countries every day, but on this day, let us especially pray that our freedoms, become theirs as well.
January 15, 2022
Sketch Michael Shane Neal
This is a pencil sketch of an amazing artist, Michael Shane Neal. He has ties to both Nashville as well as New York City, and was a student of another great artist Raymond Everett Kinstler.
January 14, 2022
Sketch Betty White
I remember my Mom watching Golden Girls in the eighties, and watching old Mary Tyler Moore episodes. They say she was first on a test broadcast at 17, and grew up with television. I love comedians, and their God given gift to make people laugh. As Solomon said, Laughter does good like a medicine.
Art Unboxed Mickey Mouse?
In our Art Unboxed articles, we normally look at tools and techniques to improve our art. Today, I would like to talk to you briefly about a different way of seeing your art. As an example, I’d like to offer my pencil sketch of Mickey Mouse, and talk about another sketch of him.
Between three and five million dollars, that was an estimate in 1995 for the first drawings of Mickey Mouse, which was almost thirty years ago now. If you valued it against the whole worth of the Disney company, my guess is, it would be worth a lot more. More importantly than the money I’m sure, to Walt Disney, was the opportunity to care for his family.
Today we tend to think of the Disney Empire as a corporation or conglomerate, which it is today, but it started out as a man with an idea. His ideas excited him, but in a very real way, he had felt the impact of finances on a family. I mention this not only as an artist, but as a husband and a father. The value of our art, isn’t only how much it can make in dollars, but as a vehicle for our families.
We don’t know much, if anything about what a number of artists from the 1500’s thought, but we have their pictures. Their families have something that can not only be handed down physically, but they can see what they saw. For some, art provided for their families as a means of learning as well.
For example, I know from my Mom that my Great Grandmother Shelton could draw anything she saw. I have a copy of a drawing that she did before I was ever born. I don’t know much about her, but I understand that for me, art goes back generations.
What you draw, paint, or write, may or may not make a fortune, but it can supply some very important things for your family. I hope that you take a look at your art in a new way today, as a gift you can give those you love.
January 13, 2022
iPainting Look Up
Psalm 121:1-2
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
This Scripture to me was the exact verse for this iPainting. When I can’t see the forest for the trees, when I’m overwhelmed, I can look to the hills. Pastor Denny Livingston reminded us Sunday in the Message “God Rails” that The Lord has put barriers in place to prevent us from stumbling.
No matter how high we climb, or how low we may feel in the valley, there is The Hope Who is higher than problem we face. He will guard our steps, pick us up when we stumble, cause us to always climb higher, and stand at the top with us in victory.
iPaiting Look Up
Psalm 121:1-2
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
This Scripture to me was the exact verse for this iPainting. When I can’t see the forest for the trees, when I’m overwhelmed, I can look to the hills. Pastor Denny Livingston reminded us Sunday in the Message “God Rails” that The Lord has put barriers in place to prevent us from stumbling.
No matter how high we climb, or how low we may feel in the valley, there is The Hope Who is higher than problem we face. He will guard our steps, pick us up when we stumble, cause us to always climb higher, and stand at the top with us in victory.
