Shades of Art

Since my blog is geared towards discussing the great creators and their works of art, I want to begin by introducing the greatest creator the world has ever known–Elohim, the one and only true Creator. The very first verse in the Bible introduces Him as such when it says, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1 (ESV) This leaves no doubt as to who the the first creator was. Before the first man breathed or put his will to art, God was creat

Quite recently, I have opened up my old notebooks and begun reliving the stories that haunted my life four years ago. I was an aspiring author (you can read about how I started writing here ), and I was in that infamous stage of "You don't know you don't know." My stories were fraught with random emotional outbursts (probably a result of something that had just happened during my day.) Plot twists were unforeseeable at best, unbelievable at worst. Dark and light clashed in pa

There was a time not so long ago when most anyone (especially girls) could do art. The only known portrait of Jane Austen was painted by her own sister, an artist of no great consequence, but an artist nonetheless. Now, because life is so busy, very few have the time to dedicate to visual art. Unless you want to make it into a career, it seems that there's no point in doing it, right? Wrong! Off the top of my head, I can think of several reasons why it's beneficial