Darkness into Light
Art Medium: Watercolor Ink on Yupo
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Diane Ziemski – It’s really hard to choose a favorite passage from several chapters, but this is the one that spoke to me. When I married my husband and began painting, I felt like I had come out of the darkness and into the light. This piece is quite different for me. I usually work realistic with transparent watercolors on paper. “Darkness into Light” is watercolor on Yupo, which is like a plastic paper. It consists of about eight layers of the ink which is also symbolic of the layers of my life.
Redemption
Art Medium: Acrylic
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Rachel Young – Adam and Eve sinned and cast out of Eden. A flaming sword guards the way back to paradise and The Tree of Life. Adam bends down as the snake crawls on its belly past the ram’s head. God sacrificed the animal to cover their sin and clothe their nakedness. Eve looks up and sees the Redeemer who will come from her descendents. He will wear a crown of thorns and will die on the cross to take away the sins of the world. “Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Eden
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Rachel Young – Water gushes up from inside the earth and forms the waterfall in the Garden of Eden. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is colorful, aromatic and mysterious. A serpent travels upright and is gold to represent the dazzling beauty Satan was created with. Gold is everywhere like it will be again in heaven. Adam and Eve both glow with radiant beauty made in God’s image. Adam is totally fascinated with Eve to the point that he worships her over God. When she suggests that he disobey God’s instructions, he follows her advice.
Sinful Pass
Art Medium: Glass Etching
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Edward Lee Woodfork, Jr. – The inspiration for the piece, “Sinful Pass”, was my reflecting back to the word and the example of how the transfer of your sins can affect others. If you allow your weakness to over step the instruction.
All in God’s Hands
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Edward Lee Woodfork, Jr. – My inspiration for this piece, “All in God’s Hands”, was a mental narration of how the hands of God molded the heavens and the earth, to every detail. God’s powerful hands are upon us today and have been forever. Man has no power unless he allows God to work through him.
The Third Evening
Art Medium: Oil
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David D. Wilson – One of the most wondrous displays of God’s creativity lies in the changing light and colors of the sunset. By the evening of the third day, God had created all the foliage and vegetation of the plant kingdom. Since the animal kingdom had not yet been created, the movement of the wind and the water were the only sounds on earth. As God looked out over the beauty of His Garden of Eden and watched his sun set on the tree of knowledge of good and evil, I wonder what he felt.
The Garden
Art Medium: Mixed
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Linda Williams – My vision, following the scripture reading, was of a very peaceful, harmonious place where everything is calm, joyful, beautiful and alive. All Adam and Eve’s needs are provided for and yet, the temptation is overwhelming to have more, even if it’s not in God’s plan. The birds and other animals seem to sense the tranquility is being disrupted. The actions of one affect so many. When we step out of God’s will, how many lives do we affect? Why isn’t His plan enough for us?
The Dawn
Art Medium: Acrylics on Wood Panel
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Brittney Williams – From the beginning of man’s creation we were tempted. I find that in acknowledging the temptation l face through out my life l can stand stronger in God’s presence and show resistance. This piece shows the foreshadowing of the temptation of man, allowing a reminder of the temptations we are called to resist daily.
Creation
Art Medium: Fabric Collage
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Brittney Williams – The “Creation” is directed at inspiring children, not only to Gods greatness, but to create art. This piece includes bright colors, texture, and simplified forms to appeal to a child’s senses. Learning of God should begin at a young age. l wanted to provide a child with a visual reminder of Gods wonder.
Barring Temptation
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Elisabeth R. Whitbeck – My painting is an allegory which melds Genesis’ creation story into a relationship with God and His children (Adam and Eve). The larger apple represents the sin of the world; the smaller apple in Eve’s hand becomes the individual struggle against temptation. Within the painting are: the lamb (Holy Spirit), the dove (Christ’s sacrifice), the vine (the connectedness of the Christian with Christ), thorns (suffering), fig leaves (shame), grape clusters (Blood of Christ), the serpent (evil enmeshed in all human activity), and the Cross (symbol of Christ and Christianity). Finally, the five crosses represent: forgiveness, love, redemption, salvation, resurrection.
The Fruit
Art Medium: Digital Photograph
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Kenna Westerman – I want people to look at my photograph and see the story about the temptation of man and woman. Since we have heard the story told with the apple, by using apples would help bring the connection. While restudying these verses, the thought came to me how sad God was when he learned that Adam and Eve disobeyed. I translated that sadness to darkness. Maybe the tree was beautiful but after the disobedience by man and woman, the tree became bleak, losing its gratefulness. The bleakness of the tree and the remaining fruit illustrates how one’s actions usually affect others.
Darkness Lost
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Mark Webb – My original idea was drawn from separating darkness from light, however, once I had completed my thoughts on that I still felt that it was incomplete. Therefore, I added the earth and the moon to the painting. I tried to make the earth and moon seem formless as if they had not been molded into final form. The rest of the painting is portrayed as partially unformed as well.
The Breath of Life
Art Medium: Prisma Colored Pencil and Acrylic
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Sandra K. Ward – This art piece illustrates with the use of ribbons. Seven large ribbons clockwise in shades of blue represent each day of creation. Four smaller blue-green ribbons represent the river that was separated into four headwaters. One green ribbon represents the tree of life. The ribbon intertwined with two shades of green represent the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The background is total blackness with stars. A faint glow of the moon is behind God’s hand. The Divine Artist (God the Father) hand holds the dust of the earth forming man and breathing into his nostrils the breath of life…and the man became a living being!
Tree of Life
Art Medium: Soft pastel
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Grant T. Ward – My inspiration came from the photograph I saw of a huge tree surrounded by desert. My whole idea could not be expressed in this picture because of the time. I had started the picture only a few days before the deadline. I actually wanted to have the rest of the garden surrounding the tree. In the sky I wanted to have black clouds coming toward the sun. This would be to represent the sin of humans coming upon the world. And I had thought about adding a few crows to represent some of Satan’s demons. The sun is to represent God who is always there whether you see him or not.
Fall from Grace
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Robert F. Walker – “Fall from Grace” stems from my conception of how relative innocence can change so quickly by a simple act. Often actions are influenced by outside forces—which in this case was the serpent. I wanted to convey the sense of pending changes in a sense of quiet drama. This is compounded by the manner of their gazing each other in the eye with confidence of youth/innocence.
