As promised

 

This image is two and a half days of work. There were many breaks in between to identify faint details and to choose colors. I guess my age is showing because of this but, as my end of post says, "Love the details". Doing justice to this image is just like trying to capture him on paper. IMPOSSIBLE! Love of Christ is something intangible within our hearts. He has many possible visages within our minds and hearts. If we had seen Him in person I have no doubts that he would not be as we would expect Him to be visually. I colored this image with love and care to show a possibility of His likeness. I am not completely happy with it but it is the best I could do. 

The Copic colors used are:

This is a MoonTear image as indicated on the image. The white portions of this image were very subtle and the CO & COO cool gray colors were used to make the intended image become clear. The skin shading was kept more tanned to be true to the area He lived in. The hair was difficult close to the shoulder because it was not very distinct but it was there.

Next week I will write a post and share yet another image from MoonTear. There are a few more of the Christ images coming in the future as well. Until then May the good Lord bless and Keep you safe. Remember to always "Love The Details."

Hopelessness

 

The quote above is set in a picture of a desert dune. That is truly what it is like when there is no capacity to love. If I seem to be on this subject a lot it is because it is the single most important subject in the bible. If you have ever felt empty and hopeless then you know what I mean. There are people who are incapable of love or of being loved. They are individuals who are aeromatic. This often results in depression. I am no expert in these things nor am I immune to the effects of  depression. The absence of love is somewhat foreign to me. Compassion for others and empathy for the suffering is something that is hard to ignore in the world today. There certainly is enough suffering to go around. So much so that it is not possible to be involved in every single case. That can be depressing in itself. All I can say is do what you can do and pray for that which you can't directly help with. You can do what you can do and no more. The rest is up to the good Lord.

This week I have a very special image to share. Most of the images for the next few weeks will be from MoonTear. The amazing thing about many of these images is they are AI (artificial intelligence) created. Here is the image as colored and photographed.

I enhanced this through my photo enhancement software to remove the graininess from the finished image. This is close to the way it appears in person. 

The Copic colors are:

I hope you like the coloring. That is it for this week. May the good Lord Bless and keep you safe. Remember to always "Love The Details."

Sneak Peek

 

No message today. The above BainyQuote is the message.

The image shared last week was reduced to 4"x6" and colored. It turned out OK but in reducing the sized much of the detail is lost and it became VERY difficult to color. That said I am using it as a test to detemine the final colors used to do the final (hopefully) 8"x11 1/2" image. 

For those of you that have reduced the size of an image with fine detail you know that some of the detail actually disappears. The finished image will be different than this image. I am not giving the colors used for this image because some of them will change. This is a teaser. I am working on several other easier images along with the final rendering of this one.

Remember to always "Love The Details" and God Bless and keep you safe.

Decision

Last week I wrote about resolution making. The fulfillment of resolutions requires decisions. Those decisions make or break the path we take to fulfilling the resolution. Instead of a resolution I have decided to follow my dear wife and choose a word for the year. "Listen" is the word chosen. You must learn to be still to listen fully. This is the essence of what the word for the year means to me. The place in the bible that is my all time favorite for this is 1 Kings 19:3-13. Elijah, fearing Jezabelle's threat to kill him fled to a cave where he was instructed to go outside as the Lord was passing by. Horrific wind, fire and earth quake were experienced but the Lord was not in them. After this there was silence except for a gentle breeze. At this Elijah fell to his knees for this was the the voice of the Lord. That is what I seek. It is one of the reasons that being alone in solitude is important when praying to the Lord. It is one of the reasons these posts are often done when it is the middle of the night. The solitude and quiet. Listening for that soft gentle voice telling me what to write. It is a time when the hustle and bustle craziness of the daily rush is muted and silent. I wish I could tell you how many times I have started a post during the day and got up in the middle of the night ony to discard it and start over with a new post. That special gentle voice is only audible when we are still and listening for it. Yes it guides us during the day with all of the distractions but to truly hear it requires being still mentally and physically. These times are also the times when my heart and soul can praise our Lord and feel Him close. When He is close that is when that soft gentle voice can be heard.

Rather than a finished colored image this week I would like to share an image I got off the internet from ETSY. ( MoontearPrints ) It is a special image that I will be coloring between now and Easter. These are not free images. Please do not take them.

This is one of several I have purchased to color and share with you. I will also be sharing them with MoontearPrints when finished before it is posted.

That is it for this week. May the good lord bless and keep you safe. Remember to always "Love the Details."

Resolutions

 I pray everyone had a happy healthy holiday.

This quote struck me as perfect for this post. We all have wishes and that is what we use for our New Year resolutions most often. The problem is that these things are also those things that are most often something we haven't the will to complete. Why? There is no purpose behind the wish just something we want. Being the human beings we are, making resolutions with purpose gives us the reason to work for even if we do not immediately achieve that purpose. It may seem crazy but  for some Christianity is much like the New Year resolution. We resolve to do something or go after something knowing in our heart that we will break that resolution. We celebrate the birth of Christ then immediately forget what it all means. In a few months we will celebrate Easter, the culmination of the reason Christ was born. Many will go through the motions of celebrating His sacrifice then go back out into the sin filled world and forget what they celebrated. Why? The reasons are many but the truth is there is no belief or commitment. The purpose is nonexistent in the heart. What purpose? To walk with the knowledge and belief that we are sinners and have to guard our walk through this world every moment of our lives. Every Christmas and especially Easter are deeply felt in my experience of them. It is not something that we can touch, smell, taste or see but in the end it will be the greatest fulfillment. Yes I put it in the future because it is not done yet. It is an ongoing process but I know it will be fulfilled. Can you say that about your resolutions?

 Just a quick image. Don't know where it came from but it was done for DW to make a card with. 

The Cop0ic colors used are:

That is it for this week. May the good Lord keep you safe and well. Remember to always "Love The Details."