Joel Painting

I love painting so this assignment was an outlet for me that I really enjoyed. I don't always have the time it takes to sit down and paint something so it was nice to have class time to use this venue of creativity! I'm looking forward to doing it again!

I think that the book of Joel is full of imagery that lends a number of different possibilities for painting. But as I read The Message Version of Joel for the first time, two passages in particular stood out to me.

The left side of my painting came from Joel 2:2-3:

"...A black day! Dooms day!

clouds WITH NO SILVER LINING!

Like dawn light moving over the mountains,

A huge army is coming.

There's never been anything like it

And never will be again.

Wildfire burns everything before this army

And fire licks up everything in its wake.

Before it arrives the country is like the garden of Eden.

When it leaves it is death valley.

Nothing escapes unscathed."

The focus was that it looked like death valley and that the clouds were without any silver lining.

The right side represents restoration and is taken from Joel 2:21-22:

"Fear not, earth! Be glad and celebrate!

God has done great things.

Fear not, wild animals!

The fields and meadows are greening up.

The trees are bearing fruit again:

A bumper crop of fig trees and vines!

Children of Zion, celebrate!

Be glad in your GOD."

The right side of the painting the silver lining in the clouds returns and the crops flourish once again! God's mercy, love and providence is seen in the restoration!