I also refer to these as “7 Secrets Every Artist and Designer Must Know But Many Don’t”
These are the 7 principles that guide the you, the visual artist, into a relationship with the Spirit of God in order to give God access to the creative gift He placed within you. Much of my workshop material, newsletter articles and overall teachings are based on these principles. I believe that these scripturally based precepts are navigating standards for a right relationship between God and the artist:
1. God is a creative God.
The first …

At this time of the year it seems more challenging to remember that the Christmas season is all about Christ, and not the hustle and bustle and common distractions that can get things out of focus.
I like to go a step further to also remind myself that the focus of Christmas is not ONLY that “Baby Jesus” was born, but that His birth had a purpose and that was to die and rise again to save us.
To send that message home, some time ago I created an interactive digital painting …

I’ve recently been reading “Imagine- A Vision for Christians in the Arts”; a book that many of you may be familiar with by Steve Turner. Steve comes out of the gates with a concept that unfortunately is not uncommon: that a lot of Christian contemporary art is of poor quality, yet a great deal of art created by non-Christians is of good quality.
His point is that many Christian artists use their redemptive experience as the sole driver in their artistic expression, forsaking basics like training, exploring creative culture and …