Wings of the Morning
29 x 12 inches - $225.00
Title only on print.
There was a wonderful flow to the process of the work but having completed the foreground and the sky, I felt there was something missing in this landscape – something living. While pondering this dilemma the word “Geese” dropped into my spirit.
As the sky was already done I was now presented with a technical challenge. If this was an oil painting I could simply wait for the paint to dry, then paint the geese into the sky – but I was working with pastels. I needed to somehow get an outline of the geese onto the finished pastel sky. The only way I knew to accomplish this was to do the geese on tracing paper and then rub them down. This method of transferring images works good on clean paper but I’ve never had any success with it on paper already saturated with pastel. But for the lack of a better way, I gave it a try. The result was what I expected – nothing. There was not a single trace of the geese in the sky. While considering my options I heard one word from the Lord; “Look”.
I looked and saw nothing. I looked closer. Now with my face six inches from the paper, I continued to look. What happened next defies reality, I was beginning to see the shape of one of the gooses heads, just that tiny portion, nothing else. I started to lightly trace the outline of the small head and as I progressed, more of the body outline was revealed to me until I had a complete outline of the goose. This process continued with all the geese one by one (except 2 would not materialize) leaving me with 12 geese, not the 14 I had on tracing paper.
Looking with my natural eyes, there was nothing there, but the eyes of my heart could see. With childlike faith I took the Lord at his word and simply looked, kept looking – until the eyes of my heart were opened to see into His realm. To see what was not visable.
What happened to me is exactly what Hebrews 11:1 speaks of concerning faith being the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.