Sunbeams

by Lori Kingston

Title

Sunbeams

Artist

Lori Kingston

Medium

Painting - Painting

Description

Have you ever noticed how the sun sometimes shines through the clouds in what appear to be individual shafts of light? The word "sunbeams" doesn't seem to be used much anymore, but it is the perfect word for those long, almost miraculous-looking streams of light.

The word "Sunbeams" also reminds me of my childhood, growing up in a Southern Baptist church -- we had Sunday School in the morning, but in the evening we had different classes, a lot of them more missions oriented, and the youngest kids (outside of the crib crowd) were the Sunbeams, or Sunbeans as I mistakenly said. We learned about the Bible and Jesus, and about missionaries who went to other countries to tell people there about Jesus, so when the day came that my parents were appointed as missionaries to Brazil, I knew what that was all about. My parents ended up serving in Brazil for 32 years, and I was there with them for 15 of those years -- a wonderful way to grow up. :)

This painting came about as part of a series of experiments working with different textures, seeing how paint would transfer from one surface to another, how much of the texture would transfer, what patterns emerged in the process. I added the long lines with a straight edge dipped in white paint after I'd done the rest -- the painting needed a little something more, and the radiating lines were just the thing.

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October 9th, 2019

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