Any ideas?

Happy Easter everybody. . .

I should be painting. But I was wondering what you guys been coming up with? To me (I was an English major) so ideas are easy, "fleshing them out" is another matter. But ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. Often the best ones I've had came after I got going & switched gears.

My ideas of scriptural interpretation tend toward dark, heavy, and dramatic . My friend Noelle takes the lighter approach to drawing. She does drawings that are "cute" (not Japanese "cute style" but childlike, naive), lightly rendered, almost wash paintings with wonderful little creatures and plants, and long flowery letters and shapes. I like it, but not for my own drawing. . .they seem "girly". But I like "girly". Nothing wrong with it.

Maybe its that I feel like I'm carry a cross in my drawings. Is that bad? I think, as an Christian artist depicting scripture, its a great work (and rare) to be both very in tune with yourself and the spirit of the scripture you're depicting. And maybe that means carrying a Cross through it? I have to remember that every line I make won't cause the end of the world. I have to have faith in these situations, when I'm pulling at my hair: I will get to the end.

I hope one day (maybe after I get these "heavy thoughts" out of my system) that I'll be able to draw Easter eggs and plants and little birds and they will be just as God honoring as the Crosses and Edenic paintings I make now. Kids draw everything, and we always say that their drawings are loved by God no matter how perfect they are. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Anyway, those are my two cents (48 more and I'd be famous).

-Will