Thursday, December 3, 2009

A study in color

One of the joys of teaching art classes is that I get to see the myriad (I use that word too much-- because I like it) styles that pour out of my students. It's like getting a look at their brains, in color, on a piece of paper. Or their emotions, thoughts, motor skills.... all combined in a glorious array. The best part of that joy is the difference! I can tell their paintings apart like handwriting, like signatures, like fingerprints.
Late last night Jesus thought into my head that His heart holds more art than the world can imagine. In fact, it's taken several thousand years and several trillion people to get it out! This is why our artwork is all so individual: we each possess a different piece of His infinite artistic capacity and it's not till we look at the entire body of human creativity as a whole that we begin to get a clue about what floats God's boat.

So, which piece do you have?

1 comment:

Emily said...

oooo.....I like that.