2008.03.09 -Man of Sorrows - Oil on Canvas

The New Art Co-op is officially opening Easter weekend so I am hoping this will be dry in time for that. I have decided to use Sundays as a 'play and experiment' day so yesterday after church I pulled out the oil paints that have been sitting in a box gathering dust and worked on 'Man of Sorrows' - The title came from Isaiah 53. There's a song in D that came t o me once the work was complete which uses the words from Isaiah 53 and goes...

Man of Sorrows - by Nicky 2008

He had no beauty or majesty

Nothing in the way He looked

that we should desire Him

Despised, rejected

a Man of Sorrows

And we esteemed Him not

Yet He took our infirmities

and carried our suffering

Pierced for our transgressions

Crushed for our iniquities

Opressed and afflicted

He gave His life for us

Yet we esteemed Him not

Also did a small oil pastel with an area that had a varnish mask just to see what would happen with that which was kinda fun. I love the flexibility of oils in that you can move them around the canvas for a long time as they take so much longer than acrylic paints to dry. Just the odour is not that great for the nose (of the turps) in an enclosed space.