New artwork: Oil in Their Vessels. I’m taking more artistic license than usual with this one (how oil lamps look, where the light comes out, etc.). Also, with these last two pieces I’ve been playing around with more of a clean-line approach. It won’t be the right fit for every piece, but I do look forward to using it more.
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New artwork: Water, Spirit, Blood. Years ago, by the way, I first tried executing this idea, but I wasn’t happy with it and ended up taking it down sometime later. Much happier with this version.
New artwork: I Am a Child of God II. A remix of I Am a Child of God using the recent loose stained-glass style I used on Christ Visits the Nephites III, acknowledging fully that it doesn’t actually look like real stained glass. (And on this piece I decided to go with sharper edges, so to me it almost looks more like stone tiles.)
New artwork: In the Beginning. I’ve been trying for a couple weeks to figure out how to do this piece, and after many failed attempts, I finally figured out something I’m happy enough with (which I honestly was beginning to think would never happen).
Another new artwork: The Lord’s Passover II. (I’ve wanted to do a simpler, better version of The Lord’s Passover and figured it was time.)
The hiatus may or may not be over. New artwork: Mother in Heaven. I used Cirque to create the small circles, then did the rest of the vector work in Figma (which I’m liking much more than Illustrator).
A new poem: “Rusted Crowns.”
I started this one almost a year ago with just the first stanza written, then picked it up again this week and completed it.
New artwork: Christ Visits the Nephites III, a third installment in the series. This time round I experimented with a style that feels a bit like medieval stained glass. Fairly happy with how it turned out, though of course now I mostly see its flaws. (But early medieval stained glass was full of flaws and imperfections! So it’s in that spirit.)
New artwork: Nothing Shall Be Impossible unto You II. A slightly different take on the same idea as the first piece.
New artwork: Peace, Be Still. I dialed up the SVG turbulence filters to get the effect on the left. Also used the erode operator throughout (with the feMorphology filter primitive). I couldn’t get Inkscape to show the lines with the filters applied, though, so I ended up screenshotting the piece via QuickLook and then upscaling in Photoshop (hacky, but hopefully not too obvious).