These are some “Old Paintings” I did when I was just getting started and their color schemes.

SPLIT COMPLIMENTARY COLOR SCHEME

Oil on canvas 32X20 “River Bend”-Split-complimentary color scheme

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The Polystrate Trees and Coal Seams of Joggins Fossil Cliffs

Large lycopod tree arising from shale into sandstone.

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I am still deciding which of these pictures from Ludington I should paint…

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These oil paintings that were done from the Ludington state park, one of my favorite places to go in Ludington.

top 16 x 20 Oil on canvas

bottom 8×10 oil on canvas

A few of my old sketches…

this is a glass I sketched in 11th grade

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How can we tell the Bible is the inspired word of God?

This is a tough question that an atheist just asked me. I was a little taken back because the bible says we are to be ready always to give an answer. 1 Peter 3:15 To be honest I didn’t have one other than the fact that we can’t tell right from wrong with out the Bible. Being a new Christian I have never had any one ask me this before. I have been researching so that I will be able to give an answer.This atheist particularly wanted to know about the Jews also. In my research I found that we can prove the Bible is inspired by the countless prophecy’s that have been fulfilled, the evidence the Bible points out in the creation and the proof of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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This is obviously a color wheel…and

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16 x 20 Oil on canvas

Why is there death and suffering in the world today?

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Aslan Narnia painting: 16×20

The reason I painted this painting was at first for a close friend’s husband. During the planning stages in deciding the background I realized how much Aslan reminded me of Jesus and his resurrection. When he was captured his disiples (friends) fled, but after he was crusified and came back from the dead they believed him they saw him with their own eyes and were willing to die for what they saw. This is one of many things that defines Christianity from other faiths. Although these days Christianity is used as an umbrella term representing all sorts of religious cults, in which don’t know who Jesus is or why he died. Not only his resurection but his miracles are recorded in the Bible and extra Biblical books not even written by believers. Many faiths respect Jesus, but the fact is you can’t just respect him. Jesus claimed to be God and was crusified for this, so you must revere him as God or reject him as a fraud you can’t just think he was a good guy. He lived a perfect life never doing any wrong and choose to die for all of us. So what does that mean? We are all guilty according to God we have all done wrong things. According to God doing one wrong thing is enough to send us to Hell burning with no way out for ever. No one can say they have never lied, stole something, disobeyed there parents…Jesus took the punishment all of us deserved so we didn’t have to. Jesus died because he was nailed to a cross and tortured for us, so that we could go to heaven and live forever. Just as Aslan the character of a fiction book layed down his life for his friends, Jesus did that for us. That is what inspired me to paint this painting. If you ask Jesus to forgive you and take you to heaven when you die you can be absolutley sure your going to heaven and not Hell.

” A view of Ludington, Mi ” 16 x 20 Oil on canvas

charcoal 8×10

Can Evolution and the Bible both be right?

This is a surprisingly tough question for most Christians, although the answer is pretty simplistic. If Evolution is true, the Bible cannot be true. The Bible says “For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day; and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:11). The Bible says God made everything in six literal days and Evolution says everything was created through slow gradual processes over Billions of years. So the Bible and evolution can not both be true. If we take this a step further we have to ask ourselves another question. If the Bible is not true how can we tell right from wrong? The answer is clear, we can’t. Truth would be just be everyone’s opinion of what truth is, which isn’t truth at all! Thats why I am glad the Bible is true and evolution is a false doctorine. Since the Bible is God’s perfect word and it tells us what is right and wrong, we can know truth.

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