Embrace original painting or print - father hugging child buying portrait, acrylic paint, Jesus Christ portrait, white roses, abstract, Bible art

Painted live during worship at a local Sunday morning service, this painting is meant to show buying God's love in a way viewers can relate to - as if you are a child and He is there to take care of you. A beautiful encouragement to you and your family, or a wonderful gift for someone!

Title: Embrace
Original painting: 24x24 inches
- Medium: Acrylic on canvas
- 1.5 inch deep professional quality stretched canvas
- Sides of canvas painted brown and a wire on the back, needs no additional framing.
- Original comes with Certificate of Authenticity

Prints: Archival quality giclee prints are available on acid free fine art paper, or stretched canvas. A wide range of sizes are available under Materials. Prints are made on demand and take 1-2 weeks for production.

The original is available immediately and ships within 3 business days.

Please let me know if you need your art delivered by a certain date, and I will reply promptly with shipping quotes and times once I know your delivery address.

Note:
Framing is not included in the price.
Watermark is for internet only and does not appear on the original or prints.

The story behind the painting:
Having been given the freedom to paint anything for a live painting demonstration, I challenged myself to approach the blank canvas that morning without a plan in mind, no reference photos in hand, and leaving it open to what God wanted to say to those in attendance simply through line and colour as I went.
I began with a diagonal stripe across the canvas, dividing sky from land which reminded me of the way God created the world in Genesis 1. I painted swirls of white around the bottom half like a rose, I had been bombarded with rose images lately, being Valentine's day weekend. I layered over this with the portrait of Jesus and developed it in layers until the expression on his face seemed to be that of a loving father. I kept the painting sketchy and left my brushstrokes rough and quick so the image would be like a dream, not too clear. The young child hugging Jesus seemed appropriate and fit just right in the centre area; I added highlights and dark areas to the hair and clothing. I brought back the roses as the background, with the greenery coming up the left side to frame the figures. I painted some stars and a dove's wings in the heat of the sunset area, and then later discovered an eagle in the blue of the sky which I only noticed after I was finished and had moved to the back of the room! Highly symbolic, this painting has been well received and I hope that it continues to bless viewers and help bring them closer to their heavenly Father.

Thanks and God bless!
Melani Pyke