Beautiful Things

The last month or so, I have been listening to the latest album Beautiful Things by Gungor. With the day off for Labor Day yesterday, I decided to paint a concept of mine off of this album, more specifically, the title track Beautiful Things.

Title - Beautiful Things
Medium - Acrylic
Date of Creation - September 6, 2011
Size - 8 inch by 11 inch

With a life yielded over to Christ, God takes the nothingness and sinfulness of an individual and transforms them into something beautiful. We were dead without Him, but now alive in Christ.

Beautiful Things

by: Gungor

All this pain

I wonder if I'll ever find my way

I wonder if my life could really change at all

All this earth

Could all that is lost ever be found

Could a garden come up from this ground at all

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of the dust

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of us

All around

Hope is springing up from this old ground

Out of chaos life is being found in You

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of the dust

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of us

You make me new, You are making me new

You make me new, You are making me new

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of the dust

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of us

The Pursuit

My second painting actually is from a concept that I have had for multiple years before I actually started creating. While attempting to journal through some of my thoughts about dating, I decided to take an illustrated approach and the simple concept sketch for this painting was created.

Title - The Pursuit

Medium - Acrylic

Date of Creation - February 16, 2011

Size - 8 inch by 8 inch

The setting is a guy in pursuit of the girl he hopes to spend his life with. The path is long with stretches of peaks of hope and valleys of hopelessness. The journey brings are several girls along his path, some closer to his heart than others. But they are not the girl. Not the one. So through the aches and pains of the valleys, he continues to climb to the next hill. Off in the distance is a glimpse of his girl. Off in the distance, hope.

Blog Structure

Recently I decided to try to pick up a new hobby, and the one which stuck with me the most was painting. Since then, I have created a few painting of my own. Some have been gifts, and others art.

The last few days I thought it would be a great idea to revitalize my blog, posting my art and explaining a bit of the background to each painting. Some will be based upon verses from the Bible and the things I am learning through those verses, others just based on an idea or concept. Think of this as a digital museum of my artwork, with the painter himself as your tour-guide.

That is the basics. Each post will consist of a description of the painting and maybe a little backstory behind the painting. The backstory will not completely encompass everything within the painting, or all of my thoughts on a particular topic. It is simply there as a guide. Think of the description as what would be written on those little black plaques next to paintings at real museums.

I hope you all enjoy! Feel free to leave comments. And if you particularly fall in love with one of the paintings, make me an offer. I might just sell it to you.

Beginning Artist,
Andrew Polk