Angel of Wrath

 These are tee shirts I made about the 4th Angel of Wrath in the book of Revelation pouring out a bowl of God's wrath on the sun.  I wanted to make an image formatted to fill the front of a tee shirt instead of just a chest graphic. 

Done for my Screen Printing Class with Emily Hoisington.

Enmity

Hello to all of my kind and interested readers!  I am sorry it's been so long, but this past and final semester at MCAD has left me little time to post, but now that it's summer, you can expect a lengthy resumption of posting.

To start things off, I've got this illustration I made in my anatomy class.  It was open ended, and all it needed was some example of human anatomy.  This is an illustration of the Genesis 3:15 text, " I will put enmity between thee and the woman," addressing Eve and the Serpent, Satan.  The wheat and foliage is to show how fruitful Eden was before the fall, and Eve has just been deceived by the serpent.

Done for my Experiencing Anatomy Class with Amy Sands.

Samson

This is an illustration of Samson killing 1,000 Philistines with a donkey's jawbone. I think that's such a brutal story. The scriptures say that "The Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him. The ropes on his arms became like charred flax, and the bindings dropped from his hands. Finding a fresh jawbone of a donkey, he grabbed it and struck down a thousand men." Judges 15:14-15

That place was later called "Ramath Lehi," or "Jawbone Hill."

Done for my Experiencing Anatomy Class with Amy Sands.

Dia de los Muertos Postcard

These cards were entered in a competition / exhibition at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts as part of Dia de los Muertos, or for those not "in the know," the Day of the Dead. I wanted to make the holiday more personal, so I inserted the reference John 8:51. This reads, "Truly, truly, I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." This is a big part of my faith and therefore my life, that I am promised true life which accompanies my faith in Christ.
I wanted it to be pretty simple, so I thought, "A skull!" So as not to be too "on the nose" about it, I cropped it right under the eyes. I tried printing a second, gold layer on the silver, but I stopped doing that after about three of them because I didn't like it so much.

Done for my Screen Printing Class with Emily Hoisington.

ps- here are some photos of the installation

Isaiah 6:1-7

'In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train1 of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory!”


And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”'

I was reading this and I just thought how amazing the image that it conjured up was. There sits the Lord in majesty, surrounded by mighty angels. And one angel looks over to his fellow and just says, "GOD IS SO AMAZING! JUST LOOK AT HIM!!" And when this "simple" angel says this, the room shakes, and fills with smoke. That's so awesome.

I can't wait to be in the presence of the Lord, and just look over to my fellow believers, the Church, the bride of Christ, and say, "Holy is the Lord of Hosts, the whole earth is full of His Glory!" And they'll be like, "I KNOW, RIGHT?!!"

I could go into, the rest of the verse, which is almost as awesome, but this is all I really wanted to write about.
Here's Durer's interpretation of God; it is, however, taken from Revelation, not Isaiah, but I love looking at his work. The Church used to be so active in the arts back then. Image