Lion Love

Hello Friends,

Sometimes I share with you things that I experience in my personal walk of faith, as that is where most of my art is born. You have always come back with loving comments, even if some of you are not in the same place spiritually. I appreciate you so very much.

About a week ago, at a special Island wide prayer meeting, I sensed the presence of a lion during worship. I have sensed this before, but only in the last few months. Like this time, he is usually up close to me. I can almost feel his warm muzzle on my face. It covers my whole face and feels like a soft, fuzzy kiss.

This past week I came across a scripture (bible verse) that arrested my attention. I have been meditating on it all week. I have also been sick all week with a nasty cold and was not able to go to church today. I opened my bible again to the same verse. The sketch of my lion was still open on my desk because I wanted to keep it fresh in my mind as well. Suddenly I saw how the two - the verse and the sketch - could come together.

I started by drawing my (not so good) version of a globe behind the lion. Then I added the verse, first in pencil. I went over it with a gold Sharpie marker and later outlined that with a white gel pen. The background is soft pastels. I used Prisma colour pencils and soft pastels on the globe.

Drawing bodies does not interest me much, nor am I very good at it. I think the two go hand-in-hand - not being interested in drawing bodies and not being good at it. Anyway, I decided to draw more of a suggestion of a body for my lion. He ended up looking fat. Then I had the idea to add a mountain range to his back to represent the earth. My mountains looked more like houses, so I went with it, adding little suggestions of people. "The earth is filled with your love, O Lord." What better way to represent that than by the people that God so adores?

I coloured my lion with Prisma colour pencils and, once I was pleased with the results, I started taking pictures. But then I noticed that something was missing. Can you tell what?

If you said "whiskers" than you are more observant than I was the first time around. Never fear. I got out my secret mixed media artist's weapon - my white gel pen. Voila.

And here is another close-up just because I love this big fellow so much.

Thanks ever so much for stopping by. I hope I have inspired you in some way through my words or through my art. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions about my faith.

Blessing hugs,
Teresa

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