Illuminary Art

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I am taking commissions! https://illuminaryart.carrd.co/

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Redemption in the Garden! Eve hid from God in the Garden, fallen and corrupted. It was from her seed that the Redeemer would come. Mary and the other women sought Him ought in the garden -- seeking in spite of her sin, because of it -- and found there the promised Messiah.

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No Greater Love. 16x20 watercolor and ink. Each "I love you" was written by a native speaker or student of that language. Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Bijabo, Burmese, Czech,  Danish, Dutch,  English, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek (koine), Greek (modern), Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Ilakano, Indonesian,  Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyal, Kriol, Latin, Latvian,  Lingala, Luganda, Malay,  Malay, Mandarin,  Melpa, Mongolian, Nakui, Nepali, Papua New Guinean Pidgin (three versions), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  Runyankore, Russian, Samoan,  Sesotho, Slovak,  Sorimi, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil,  Tedim, Thai, Tohono O’odham, Tongan, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

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Should you feel inspired to get a print, I have it for sale here:

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mothwick/no-greater-love/

I encourage you to continue adding to the languages on the painting by writing in your own, share it with missionaries and travelers, and take it on your own journeys. "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,..." "How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”"

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so as long as tumblr keeps this, here's the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter's quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source

otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist's notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

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"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:3

The duality of Christ: deity in the mortal body of man

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Ballpoint pen on print paper, 5"x5" Beetle specimens are from my own collection; my neighbor grew the persimmon.

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Ballpoint pen on print paper, 5"x5" Beetle specimens are from my own collection; my neighbor grew the persimmon.

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No Greater Love. 16x20 watercolor and ink. Each "I love you" was written by a native speaker or student of that language. Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Bijabo, Burmese, Czech,  Danish, Dutch,  English, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek (koine), Greek (modern), Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Ilakano, Indonesian,  Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyal, Kriol, Latin, Latvian,  Lingala, Luganda, Malay,  Malay, Mandarin,  Melpa, Mongolian, Nakui, Nepali, Papua New Guinean Pidgin (three versions), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  Runyankore, Russian, Samoan,  Sesotho, Slovak,  Sorimi, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil,  Tedim, Thai, Tohono O’odham, Tongan, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

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making progress

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Making progress on my wood stork drawing! At this point, it's on 11x17" paper, but my proportions are off and I've got to decide whether to fix it and make the drawing huge, or rescale the whole thing to stay at the current size.

So, I'd been eyeballing that bill all morning and figured it was too short despite my measurements. Lined the drawing up with some of my ref pics and.... yeah. If I keep the proportions the same, I'll need to add ~3" just for the beak, so.... looking at 16"x20" in total, maybe? If I go up to 18"x24", then I'll be exceeding the depth of my drawing desk by two inches, so... :| Where I did get things right, using the eye as my standard of measure: the nare, ear, mouth, and chin are perfectly aligned, even if the nare is a little too close to the lower mandible. If I'd measured the top of the skull instead of eyeballing it, then that would be in correct proportion, though you can see there's some variability between the two photos. Where things went off: I had sketched in my basic dimensions when I was referencing from my laptop screen and wasn't able to get exact proportions figured out then. Got things right after I'd printed my photos and was able to measure directly. So, some work to be done but I'm excited by the progress so far.

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Small update on both terrariums after some plant mail arrived yesterday.

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Planted!

Psygmorchis pusila, Peperomia serpens, P. rotundifolia, P. emarginella, Selaginella diffusa, S. kraussiana, and a NOID Gesneriad from the general region. Next step is to be very patient and wait to see that everything is rooting and surviving. I'll be adding my springtails shortly (Neanura growae, non-native but cute) and later will put my Trinidad dwarf tarantula (Cyriocosmus elegans) in it.

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The stained glass terrarium I've been working on for a long while is finally done!!! 6"x6"x9", with a perforated metal screen. This will house my Cyriocosumus elegans in a Trinidad biotope.

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I am going to scream look how drop dead gorgeous this is!! I would have never thought about backing a glass terrarium with whispy/colored glass like that. Thought Unlocked Forever.

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The plan is to put a puck light on the wall behind it once it's completed. I've got a light stand on it now which won't work great with a puck light (cast shadows!) but once I get a new book shelf squared away, I'll be swapping to an overhead bar + the puck.

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No Greater Love. 16x20 watercolor and ink. Each "I love you" was written by a native speaker or student of that language. Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Bijabo, Burmese, Czech,  Danish, Dutch,  English, Faroese, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek (koine), Greek (modern), Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Ilakano, Indonesian,  Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kreyal, Kriol, Latin, Latvian,  Lingala, Luganda, Malay,  Malay, Mandarin,  Melpa, Mongolian, Nakui, Nepali, Papua New Guinean Pidgin (three versions), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  Runyankore, Russian, Samoan,  Sesotho, Slovak,  Sorimi, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil,  Tedim, Thai, Tohono O’odham, Tongan, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu.

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Should you feel inspired to get a print, I have it for sale here:

https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/mothwick/no-greater-love/

I encourage you to continue adding to the languages on the painting by writing in your own, share it with missionaries and travelers, and take it on your own journeys. "After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb,..." "How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”"

[illuminaryart]

The stained glass terrarium I've been working on for a long while is finally done!!! 6"x6"x9", with a perforated metal screen. This will house my Cyriocosumus elegans in a Trinidad biotope.