Just wanted to share this with you guys. This guy is really inspiring for artist that don’t see a use for there gift in furthering God kingdom. He has inspired me to refocus my thoughts and art to paint more and more for the glory of the King. Go ” Repaint Jesus” for someone by your actions, actions speak louder then words. Stand Strong my friends pure in heart and mind, set apart in a world of crazy art, for Him. Garret
Just me messing around with my camera, while experimenting with a new watercolor technic on a piece driftwood from Ocean Shores. “God Made Not Odd Made” is inspired by aboriginal art but with a little twist illustrating a Christian perspective on creation.
Hook…hook…hook its the HOOK .About a year ago I ask what sketch I should turn into a painting on my sketchbook page and a couple of you chose this one, so here he is Hook… Captain of the Jolly Roger
I entered this into a Pirates of the Caribbean art contest on YouTube hosted by Val’s Art Diary. Her video of the art enters should be up in a week you should go check it out and vote for your favorite one 
Well I have surfaced from the chaos and confusion that has been my life for the past month, what was the chaos well my big sister got married it is amazing how much planing and preparation goes into one day. One things I noticed in the planing of the wedding was that all the decorating was inspired by a book, magazine someone else wedding, that got me thanking where do most artist get their inspiration. I did some research I look at some of the old greek and roman art finding that most of their art was inspired by the human body
the Aztecs got their inspiration from death
then I did a more modern search and found that most artist today get inspired from emotions
After all my research I still had one thing was still had one question, me as a Christian artist where should I get my inspiration? most people would simple answer the Bible, so I went back and researched some more, most Christian art inspired by the Bible was either really old or was really weird and most of the art was very hard to understand. I thank why most of them were hard to understand was that the artist spiritualized everything.So yes I could get my inspiration from the Bible and try to make it as clear as possible but then I thought why not get inspired from the person that inspired the Bible God. So my goal this year is to ask God what He would like me to paint. it’s going to take a while to get used to stop and pray every time I started to draw. My prayer time in the morning from now on is going to be done with sketch book in lap and pencil in hand. I’ll keep you posted on how it turns out but for now stand strong in speech, conduct, purity, and faith. CHAZAQ
Garret
Ok, I’m back and have more of a plan of what my blog is going to be this year, instead of me just posting random picture throughout the week my art is going to have a theme,a description, and a purpose. I will be making time lapses videos of the art in all its stages, so here is the first one of hopefully many to come.
Purity
Purity : What is purity? pure,white,clean, seeking Gods desires not are own, Free from the thoughts of this world. In art purity is usually , a white rose,a maiden, or an angle. In my painting I chose to use a white tuple because tuple petals have a wax like coating on them that stops stuff (sin) from muddying the color (purity) of the tuple.
Sin: The storm cloud in the painting is the sin trying to corrupt purity and cut is off from God notice that even though the sin is trying to hide God from us, God is always visible. The black cloth on the cross is my sin that Christ has taken away to give me purity.
Christ
Life: The red swirls at the bottom symbolize life. Life is not as dark as sin but the business of it can distract us from what matters most. God
Life
Here is the whole painting altogether hoped you liked it please comment and let me know.
Fight for Purity
