Under God’s Wing Oil Painting

Psalm 91:2-4

“This I declare about the Lord: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I trust him. For he will rescue you from every trap and protect you from deadly disease. He will cover you with his feathers. He will shelter you with his wings. His faithful promises are your armor and protection.”

• This was an inspiration for my painting. Two realities; the physical dark and “glitchy” world we live in and the spiritual realm of those who are in the physical world, but do not belong to it.

Isaiah 49:9 “I will say to the prisoners, ‘Come out in freedom,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Come into the light.’ They will be my sheep, grazing in green pastures and on hills that were previously bare.”

• 2 Corinthians 4:18 “So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” 🙌🏼

The process took several weeks to complete:

Materials used:

Cotton Stretched Canvas
Utrecht Artists’ Acrylic Gesso
Liquitex Acrylic Paint for “blocking/underpainting”
Gamblin Artist’s Oil Paints
M. Graham Walnut Alkyd Medium and Oil
Gamblin Gamvar Gloss Varnish

The oil paint is made of natural pigments. How it appears changes with lighting in the room, it’s tone (warm, neutral or cool), and whether the light source is natural or artificial. In the main photos I have made an effort to make it look neutral, removed the reflections and the smallest spects of dust.
This is how it looks without this effort, in a darker room with a natural light coming from the window on the left:

And from the right:

• The changing weather outside (partly cloudy) made the first photo look warm-toned and the second photo neutral/cool-tone (the wing and grass show the most difference). The light itself acts as a filter to the colors we see in the painting: in photos as well as in person.

The back of canvas: