joel paintin

The book of Joel is a very emotional pulling book. It talks about destruction, love, peace, and so many other emotions. The book was impactful because it was real life. Joel was proclaiming these words to warn and teach the people what God was trying to communicate with them. The major parts of Joel that stood out to me were the parts about devastation, hurt, starvation, and judgment. Yes, Joel spoke about how the Lord’s people will be protected and set apart. But the world will be invaded and destroyed. The Lord was sending this message through Joel as a warning to the world.

My painting was not a portrait or illustration of a scene from Joel but more of an emotion of Joel. Because the book had so many words of destruction and darkness that was the overall feeling it gave to me. In my picture it is a little hard to tell exactly what I was trying to specify due to the fact that I was working with limited colors, and that it was scanned in black in white. But in my painting I used fire like colors to express Jesus and his power coming to the earth. Then I drew a center to line to show his spirit crossing the earthy line. Then after it crosses the earth line it devastates the green grass and over comes the earth. I used the mutation of the color for the line to show the impact of the God’s spirit, and how Gods spirit totally takes over any space that it encounters. God’s glory will always change an atmosphere and curve it to how God desires it to be. Doing this painting really brought a more impactful way of looking at a specific line in a book. I was using my painting to exhibit the line “The Lord will be zealous for his land”. I believe my painting helped show the power that God has for something or someone that he loves.