New Life Gathering Live Prophetic Painting
This blog post is a work in progress! A way to document the process for some live painting.
This weekend I was invited to be "the prophetic artist" at a conference themed on Ezekiel 37---the one about the zombies...I mean DRY BONES and the great rattling as the bones came back together.. The New Life Gathering! This particular region is seeing revival sprouting.
So this is one of three done Friday night. For me, the process of creating the art is a prophetic action just as much as the final image! In fact, some times the final images disappoints the "marketplace" artist in me for technical excellence-- and I'm growing in that!
I'm also growing more in the spontaneous painting where I don't know where I'm going when I paint. Before the service, I heard God say to paint with trash. It's in theme to use dead old thrown out things, I've embedded "trash" in art before, and it's really fun to watch people's reactions when I dig through the garbage cans to see what I have to work with.
He showed me a set of three nearly identical pieces with a central horizon line. I saw layers of sound waves! The circles were printed with coffee cups. I heard him say to spray water on it, like from my mouth with the water bottle. "God, I'm not comfortable with that!!" "Haha, Ok, use a straw" (he has a sense of humor) and from the circles on up, the paint was blown with a straw, even the large words. I started using plain paint, but he told me to use the gold (a symbol I often use for his presence, faith, etc) and it almost felt too holy to do! The title shifted then from "Heaven's Sound" to "Prophet's Breath". God did not need Ezekiel to speak to the bones, but included him. Revival/change being spoken and breathed by God's people as we take the authority he has given us. That he breathed his own breath to give Adam/humans life. That was the subject of the speaker that night. Just fancy that :)
I didn’t use brushes, and didn’t fingerpaint this one!
More to come; I painted about 12 works of art this weekend!!! One set of three, one set with two stitched together, 8 small gift paintings, and two singular pieces.
