The Minor Prophets

The post title is, of course, a misnomer since the twelve shorter prophetic books are by no means minor in terms of either content or literary style.  The work below is constructed around an old window pane which has twelve panels. The glass was first removed and then the painting done on canvas glued to hardboard.  The style of painting is a throwback to some very early pieces of mine using watercolor on canvas. My recent posting "Mountain Incident" demonstrates how iffy that technique can be. So this time around I utilized acrylics instead and got a comparable end result without the danger of the paint peeling in the future.

The whole piece is shown below. Subsequent posts will concentrate on each panel in turn.

The Twelve (2004) (31 1/2" x 30 1/2")

mixed media on canvas