STORY BEHIND THE FOLLOWING THREE PAINTINGS

Occasionally, art is created on stage during our church services. The purpose of creating the art is to augment the messages delivered in the sermon. During one particular service, my job was to visually present, in paint, some of Jesus’ impact on the world. I chose to illustrate Jesus’ role in creation (He Spoke), His incarnation or arrival on Earth (He Came), and the salvation He offers (He Saves). All three paintings were partially completed before the service. Large portions of two of the paintings (He Spoke and He Saves) were covered with frisket, a plastic material which sticks to the painting surface but can be easily removed without disturbing the painting beneath. Prior to the service the frisket was painted to obscure the painting beneath and to set the stage for the painting that occurred during the service. At appropriate times during the service the frisket was removed to reveal the painting beneath. This technique allowed one panel to be used to show two different images related to the same event. The paintings below show the final paintings after the frisket was removed. For example, the picture of our present day Earth (He Spoke) was revealed when the frisket was removed from an abstract painting of creation painted during the service.