Ocean Scene Timelapse 🌊 Acrylic Paint on Paper 🎨
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Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. Today’s video is a time-lapse of my process of painting my newest work called Wisdom.
I’m going to be sharing my mental process with you as well, because even though the painting is an outward expression of what is going on on the inside, I always find it interesting when artists give a sneak peak of what was going on in their mind at the time of creating their work.
I picked this ocean scene because I had never painted an ocean scene. It seemed daunting with how many details needed to be created.
Also, I wasn’t so sure if I could render the waves as if they were moving and going a certain direction. Not to mention I needed to create the appearance that some of the water was far away, and that most of it was crashing in onto the viewer.
Yikes. Maybe this is too tough for me. I’m scared it will be a disaster.
But I’m tired of painting from fear. I’m tired of doing anything from fear. It seems like a waste of mental energy.
I did an experiment this past week where I told myself that I couldn’t be afraid of anything. Specifically this came into play when I went to sleep. I normally barricade the doors and make sure I have firepower in the event that someone breaks in.
Even with all of that, I still shut the lights off and lay in fear.
Somehow scary things I’ve seen in the past creep into my thoughts and produce vivid imagery. Stories I had forgotten about are whispered into my ears. My brain signals an alarm that there is someone standing in front of me, so I open my eyes as fast as I can to see nothing.
It’s a very cruel joke.
Now, to be clear, even though I was experimenting, I 1000% still barricaded the doors and all of that BUT I decided to lay down and reject any fearful thought.
It was delightful. I allowed my mind to wonder in the darkness. I prayed to God and then wandered off to a new piece of artwork I should create only to come back to talking with Him.
I think negotiating with fear is a complex task. Fear can make you proactive and check to make sure you lock your doors at night. But fear is also sometimes harmful and can create obsessive behaviors like I always have to run back into the house to make sure the stove is off even though I’ve already checked it five times.
However, there’s another type of fear that I think will do away with the other two if allowed to dominate our lives. The fear of the Lord.
I ran across these lovely words from Job that reverberate my feelings.
When God fixed the weight of the wind
And distributed the water by measure
When he established a limit for the rain
And a path for the lightening
He considered wisdom and evaluated it
He established it and examined it
He said to mankind,
“The fear of the Lord-that is wisdom.
And to turn from evil is understanding.”
I’m no theologian. And I’m not a very good Christian, but I have learned a tiny bit about what it means to fear the Lord.
I think it means a deep and profound respect for His person, His plan, and His limitlessness. If we know that His person is merciful and just, and if we know His plan is for salvation, and if we know that He is limitlessly good, then there is nothing we cannot risk on God.
If we lose everything, there is no limit to His goodness that will ultimately justify the crosses we bear.
Even the ocean has limits, but God has none. And the ocean is full of dark, terrible things, but God is full of limitless light and beauty.
And even if we find ourselves in the most terrible places in life where all is lost and we have to start over, we may not be rescued, but we will somehow in the future be able to say I risked it all on God, and He vindicated me.
So fear is a funny thing. But the fear of the Lord, a respect and trust in His person and plan, that is something that will allow someone risk everything they have on God because they know He is infinitely good.