Ben Crowder — #art posts https://bencrowder.net/blog/tag/art/ Feed for blog posts tagged with #art. Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:54:55 GMT en-US https://bencrowder.net/ Some updates https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-updates/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/some-updates/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT
  • I released two short new poems, “Manifestation” and “Accretion.” Probably more to come soon. Hopefully more stories soon, too.
  • Slowly, slowly, I’ve been working toward completing at least one piece of art for each passage in the New Testament Doctrinal Mastery list, and now we’re down to only two left. Since January, by the way, I’ve silently released new art here and there — twenty-three new pieces — without murmuring a word about it on this blog. I don’t remember my reason for being furtive. I think it was just an experiment to see what it was like.
  • After writing that post on homegrown apps, I’ve grown mildly obsessed with simplifying my apps, both technically (simpler architecture and code) and as a system (by having fewer apps). I made plans to rewrite Liszt in Go, using plain text files as the backing store instead of SQLite, but then had an epiphany and realized I could manage my to-do list in Codex instead. (This is Codex my notes app, now in dire need of a name change to avoid confusion with OpenAI’s thing.) I unofficially retired Liszt yesterday and have been trying the new method, and I think that while it’s different from what I had before, overall it’s simpler (each day gets its own note, and the list is just Markdown with some annotations) and is going well. This moves me another (admittedly fairly large) step toward just using paper for my to-do lists, which I suspect is where I’ll end up.
  • For my current daily reading goals, I try to read fifty pages each from the three books I’ve been reading the longest, and ten pages each from the rest. It continues to amaze me how even a long book like War & Peace melts away in the face of fifty pages per day.

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    ]]>         BYU Studies 65:1 cover https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/byu-studies-65-1-cover/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/byu-studies-65-1-cover/ Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT Pleased to announce that I Will Give You Rest II is on the cover of the recently published BYU Studies volume 65 number 1:

    byu-studies-65-1-cover.jpg

    Also, Lincoln H. Blumell’s article Is Jesus’s Yoke “Easy”? is accompanied by both My Yoke Is Easy and (at the end) I Will Give You Rest IV.

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    ]]>         New art: Wickedness Never Was Happiness Blessed in All Things Angels Speak Go No More Whoso Cometh u... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/1.12/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2026/1.12/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT New art:

    And now we have a full Doctrinal Mastery set for the Book of Mormon.

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    ]]>         New art: Translated by the Gift and Power of God To Lay the Foundation In All Thy Ways Acknowledge H... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.18/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.18/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT New art:

    By the way, I now have at least one image to go with each Doctrinal Mastery passage for the D&C and Old Testament. (Ever since Bryan emailed me in early 2024 about making more Doctrinal Mastery-based art, I’ve been trying to make a complete set. Still a few left to do on the Book of Mormon, and lots left on the New Testament. Some of these have been much harder than others and it has taken a while to figure out a good-enough way to represent them symbolically.)

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    ]]>         New art pieces: Unto His Servants the Prophets: With Many of Her Faithful Daughters: Ordained of God... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.13/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.13/ Sat, 13 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT New art pieces:

    Unto His Servants the Prophets:

    A white circle above with white lines leading straight down to a red circle below. White lines radiate down and out from the red circle.

    With Many of Her Faithful Daughters:

    Five white circle-and-triangle figures on a light pink background.

    Ordained of God:

    Two hollow red semi-circles forming a single hollow red circle.

    As a Bondage:

    At left, a dark blue triangle pointing down; at right, a white triangle pointing up.

    One in Thine Hand:

    A thick gold rectangle and a thin gold rectangle inside a hollow gold square.

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    ]]>         Six new art pieces: Pure Religion: They Without Us: That It May Be Recorded in Heaven: Afflictions a... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.3/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/12.3/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT Six new art pieces:

    Pure Religion:

    At top, a circle where the bottom half is solid red and the top half is hollow with a dashed white border. At bottom, a circle where the left half is solid red and the right half is hollow with a dashed white border.

    They Without Us:

    Alternating red and white triangles going from the bottom left to the top right in a line.

    That It May Be Recorded in Heaven:

    A horizontal blue line at center, with a red line that starts horizontal above the blue line at left, drops below the blue line in the middle, and then returns to a final horizontal stretch above the blue line at the right. I’m sorry this is not a better description.

    Afflictions and Temptations of Every Kind:

    Vertically stacked thin horizontal red lines above a horizontal white line with its middle section raised.

    Heirs of Salvation:

    A white circle slightly above and to the right of the center; a translucent dark triangle fills the lower left half of the square.

    If They Had Been Permitted to Tarry:

    Three thick horizontal bars in a vertical stack; the top is white and the lower two are faint.

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    ]]>         Pleased to announce that my painting Hearts of the Children III is the cover art for Seven Songs: Si... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.12/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.12/ Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Pleased to announce that my painting Hearts of the Children III is the cover art for Seven Songs: Signs of Christ in the Old Testament, a new book by Adam S. Miller and Rosalynde F. Welch, recently published by Deseret Book in the same series as Seven Gospels and Seven Visions.

    Photo of Seven Songs book on shelf

    Photo of Seven Songs book

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    ]]>         Five new art pieces. As Well as in Thy Heart: When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet V: To Lead Away and... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.7/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/11.7/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMT Five new art pieces.

    As Well as in Thy Heart:

    A small yellow triangle surrounded by a hollow red triangle surrounded by a large yellow triangle.

    When Our Heavenly Parents We Meet V:

    A small white trapezoid at left, with two large white trapezoids at right.

    To Lead Away and Deceive:

    A large red circle with a thin horizontal black band across it.

    Abide With Me III:

    A large white trapezoid at left; a smaller dark purple trapezoid at right.

    When He Was Yet a Great Way Off:

    At left, a tall red vertical rectangle; in the middle, a red parallelogram leaning right; at right, another tall red vertical rectangle.

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    ]]>         Four new art pieces. Shake Off the Chains: Out of the Best Books: If a Man Repenteth: But a Small Mo... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/10.26/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/10.26/ Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:00:00 GMT Four new art pieces.

    Shake Off the Chains:

    A white horizontal line at top, a dark blue horizontal line at bottom, and a red horizontal line starting at the bottom left, then in the middle going up to the top, and ending at the top right.

    Out of the Best Books:

    A red triangle over thin vertical yellow rectangles.

    If a Man Repenteth:

    A covered blue diamond at left; at right, a red circle linked by golden lines to both a white circle and a red circle.

    But a Small Moment:

    A light path leading from the lower left to the upper right, with a thin red stripe across it in the middle of the path.

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    ]]>         Five new art pieces. A Fullness of Joy: Art Thou Greater Than He?: In This House: “O Come, O Come, E... https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/9.23c/ https://bencrowder.net/blog/2025/9.23c/ Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:00:00 GMT Five new art pieces.

    A Fullness of Joy:

    Two intertwined lines of white and red.

    Art Thou Greater Than He?:

    A rectangle made up of many small red squares, above a thin, horizontal white rectangle.

    In This House:

    A hollow white triangle inside of which are facing red and white triangles.

    “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” hymn print:

    An abstract representation of the first part of the melody of “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.”

    I’ve a Mother There VII:

    A tall, thin white line curved to the right at the top, with a smaller thin white line to its side.

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