Making its first public appearance...

so, if you didn't know, I was asked by my young adults pastor to create a painting for our series "Promises." The theme verse we are using is II Corinthians 1:20. If you look it up or read below, it a difficult verse visualize in your head, as in picture it.
I took on the task to then think of something visual to go along with this verse. I threw around a few ideas in my head and decided to play it safe with something that didn't require a whole lot of interpretation. So I picked the idea of doing a celtic looking cross, they are ageless and seem to stay around forever. Thus, the reason why I chose it. God's promises are always there and made concrete in His word, meaning if He says it will happen then it will happen. I chose yellows, golds, greens and purples as the color pallet because they are rich colors and play well together.

So without further ado....sorry for the bad lighting....


This was done with acrylics. You can't really see it in this lighting but I got this really sweet looking gold paint that looks amazing with light reflecting off of it. I used a think brush to do the background. I mixed yellow, orange and white to get the golden rod color. I drew out the cross then painted the green behind it. I really didnt like how that turned out at first but Ingrid sadi it looked cool so I kept going. As I began doing the detail work on the cross, I didn't like how it was looking, the painting in general. I felt too simple and I was having trouble trying to decide what color to use for the lettering. So i added a darker golden color, light purple and accented with gold with a fan brush around the cross to give a cloudy effect. It looked so much better and gave me a larger color pallet to use for the verse. So the verse was done in a dark royal purple that I made by combing blue and purple. I emphasized the "YES" because Trevor, my pastor, wanted me to. I did that in a darker tone of the royal purple and highlighted with a light purple and tipped it with the gold paint. And just so you know writing isn't easy at all in paint. It was prob. one of the more frustrating parts of my work.
If I could change anything about the painting would be the writing....im just not a huge fan of it. But im pretty much pleased with the whole thing. :)