Portrait of Jesus

This painting has been in me, wanting to come out. This painting felt effortless. Watch the painting come together HERE.

I’m turning 40 this year and my perspective is changing on everything. Wrestling with all the changes in my relationships, in mothering, in my purpose, in my career and my self confidence.

If you’ve never watched The Chosen tv series it’s the best biblical series and changed so much of how I picture Jesus. I’ve always known Jesus was perfect but this show reminded me how he is kind, funny, clever, and empathetic. This is the face of Jesus played by Jonathan Roumie and I will always picture his kind eyes when I think of Jesus.

“As we age, it’s the humanness we fall in love with - the poignant stories of overcoming, the depthful vulnerability of aging, the struggles that grew us in karmic stature, the way a soul shapes itself to accommodate its circumstances. With less energy to hold up our armor, we are revealed and, in the revealing, we call out to each other’s hearts. Where before wounds turned us off, they are now proof that God exists. Where we once saw imperfect scars, we now see evidence of a life fully lived.”

-Jeff Brown book: Love It Forward