Annunciation Sketch
for December 12, 2013
5" x 7" pencil on Strathmore, available to frame
Sometimes a sketch is all that is necessary to convey a simple idea. For relating a feeling tone or mood a quick sketch or drawing is even more useful in
that it allows the viewer to read a great deal into the picture.
Drawings
are great ways to work out the details --for the consideration of angles,
lighting, perspective, scale, etc. Many drawings permit the concept to
expand in different directions and take flight in the artist's imagination.
Movie makers
work out the details for shots through storyboards with thousands of
drawings that communicate lighting, color schemes, costumes and sets, so
that others working on the movie can get on board and eventually
everyone will come together to create the desired physical reality required to
make the movie. What a nightmare!
My sketch above helps me to work out the possibility of a new larger
finished painting, but hopefully it also allows you as the viewer to
imagine aspects of the story in your head, and perhaps I have been able
to provide new material or angles for your consideration.
The truth is, we
all have a play or drama --a movie playing out in our lives. We produce
this movie, we direct it and act it out. It is our movie and funded by
the grace of God, who ultimately dreams big dreams for us and the
others living with us here on this beautiful day.
As we affect each other's
drama, it is my good pleasure to do these storyboards and little
vignette scripts which may assist us all in the acting out of one more big remake of Advent and Christmas. --Pastor Jack