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Its A Book About Relationship

More than anything else, I believe the book of Revelation is about relationship. It is about the relationship between Christ and His Church, between Christ and the individual believer. This is not merely a corporate body, but an individual friendship, a family bond between people that love each other.

I believe this is the central them of the entire Bible, God loves us, and calls us to join Him in relationship. That’s also what the book The Vision From Patmos that I was blessed to write is about. The Vision From Patmos isn’t about prophecy, the focus isn’t on the events of tomorrow, but the events of each day with Jesus.

It’s a book that I’m very thankful to have been blessed to write. It’s a book that I’m very passionate about, and a book that I think will both encourage you, and strengthen your relationship with Jesus. It’s for that reason that I’m writing about it now.

I hope you’ll take a moment or two and explore how the visions of our Risen Savior in Revelation are focused on the relationship between God and His people. How every word spoken is a connection to this larger theme, even or especially when it seems He’s repeating Himself, He’s not merely repeating Himself.

I hope you’ll take a moment and look at The Vision From Patmos on our Amazon store. I truly believe it will be a blessing to you. Most of all I believe that it can give you information that will enhance your relationship with The Lord, I know that it did me as I wrote it.

Sketch Christmas Ugly Gnome Sweater

Gnomes seem big this Christmas, though I’m not sure why, so I thought this Christmas Ugly Gnome Sweater sketch might be interesting.

Ollie Tollie Bear – A Christmas Story

Our next Christmas story gift to you this year is Ollie Tollie Bear. Every child dreams of a toy for Christmas, this is the story from the other side.

Ollie sat in the store, in shiny packaging. All of the others faced forward, watching and waiting. A Mommy and her little boy walked by. The boy ran to him, and picked him up.

Ollie was excited about going with him, until the boy’s Mom said to put it down, and follow Daddy. Ollie was sad, until the boy was out of sight, and Mommy picked him up. She quickly bought him, placed him in their trunk, and went back to the store.

Ollie sat in the car for what seemed like a long time. The toy bear tried not to giggle with Henry just a seat away. When they got home, Ollie thought they had forgot him, until Daddy slipped him inside, and then the closet.

If Ollie thought the car wait was long, the wait in the top of the coat closet was even longer. It seemed like ages. He watched all the seasons change from there. Spring outfits replaced with summer clothes, which gave way to fall jackets, and winter coats.

Finally, while Henry slept, Mommy took him down, wrapped him in shiny paper, and set him somewhere. Ollie could not see anything but the mostly white paper. Except that is, for the bit of red and green with Santa, where Momma doubled over the outside corner.

Ollie was sleeping, when he heard laughter. He could hear Mommy, Daddy, and Henry talking and playing. Suddenly he was being lifted. The paper was torn open, and Henry looked at his new toy. “Mommy Daddy I love it! It’s an Ollie Tollie Bear. It’s just what I wanted.”

Ollie sat on the bed, held tightly in Henry’s arms as he slept. Ollie was so happy. Every moment of waiting, in the store, the car, the closet, and apparently under the tree were worth it. He was was just what his child wanted, and that’s all any toy wants to be.

iPainting Christmas Salt And Pepper

This Christmas season, have a little seasoning with your holiday lol.

Sketch Young Sinatra

Thought this sketch of a young Frank Sinatra was appropriate on his birthday.

This Is Christmas Day A Poem

More a black night than a Silent one

Yet in the stable there was Light

Not far away herded without the sun

Lambs and shepherds too use to the night

They would see The True Star, The Blessed

Later day would hide on Golgotha’s crest

As The Savior born began to die

‘This was Light, Heaven’s best

But do not mistake His cry

Victory not defeat in His eyes

Light rose before sunrise

On Easter’s first morn

Ahead of the star in the skies

So those in darkness could be reborn

And all could see what was true and right

The Lamb came to end the night

A threat to darkness very existence

To cleanse, to free and give sight

Evil had no chance of resistance

Hope showing The Way, this is Christmas Day

iPainting Christmas In Red And White

Sketch Deck The Halls Charlie Brown

Art Unboxed Christmas Creativity

Last week in our Art Unboxed series, where we began a conversation about unboxing tools and ideas we already have access too. This week I’d like to talk about Christmas Creativity. To illustrate this, take a look at the sketch above using a marker I already had, and an idea.

The idea was to draw snowy trees with a black marker, and make it convincing. If it were a watercolor, we’d call it negative painting. In other words using the color of the paper and the blank space that is there to your advantage. As well as strategically drawing or painting around it.

When someone looks at the sketch, not because of artistic brilliance on my part, but a tried and true method. The sky, “snow” on the trees, and the “snow” on the ground are all just the color of the paper. What makes it happen is where the black lines are.

Many artists are already familiar with the concept, but that’s what Art unboxed is all about, revisiting. This same technique can be applied to another medium, or another idea. Perhaps a Christmas portrait below.

This is the same concept but in digital. The gray under the nose and cheeks is optional of course. In both cases, the same idea, applied to two different mediums, created something different. How could you use this idea to create something new during the Christmas season?

I’ve seen this minimal approach in sculpture, woodcarving, oil, and acrylic. Sometimes, the absence of detail can create very intricate pieces of art. I hope this inspires you this Christmas to take a very old idea, and make something new with it. Perhaps, even to give as a Christmas gift to someone who could use a smile this holiday season.

iPainting Reindeer Resting

I am fascinated by God’s creation, just in the family of the deer, there is so many variations. From the reindeer to the antelope and beyond, it is amazing!