Painting!

When we painted in class today, I surprised that I actually knew what I was going for in my painting. As I talked about in the blog, I wanted to paint about what I read Joel chapter 2 about repentance and Gods restoration on Israel. I am definitely not an artist. At least not this kind of art, I’m more of a music person. It was kind of funny because as I was painting today, I thought to myself “I should start doing this more often and express myself with abstract art.” Then I got back to reality and realized that that would not be something I would be good at. I would go through the phase and get bored with it a few weeks later. Anyways.. In my painting I was going for the picture of darkness surrounded by Jesus. The black represents the darkness and the blue represents raging seas. I wanted to paint a facial figure in the middle but unfortunately I have no idea how to do that. So I just painted red in the center. I wanted to get the message across that God makes Himself accessible to us by the blood of Jesus. Even with all the disaster and destruction in the world, He has everything under control. Sometimes that is hard to see, but I don’t think we really realize how much He is saving us from. For my second painting, I wanted to draw a sunrise but I decided to just cover the paper with the colors of the sun instead. I haven’t really figured out what it means yet, I just like the colors :-). Doing this activity did not actually help me read better, but I enjoyed the challenge of putting on paper what we had in our minds. Definitely better than writing!