UPDATE 12/09/2014 08:38:45 PM: The final work featured in this post, "Pharaoh's Army," was accepted into a prestigious competition! It is on display November 19, 2014 – January 18, 2015. Here is the list of accepted entries in the show. I encourage you to go, as there are many works in the show to love. Also, my very favorite piece in the show is a vivid pastel impressionist portrait entitled "Eternally Bound," by Julie Ann Rogers.

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Regarding this last work here, "Pharaoh's Army:" I hope you find this an affecting portrait of the subject. ~ As noted in the UPDATE at the start of this post, this work was accepted into the 29th Annual Spiritual & Religious Art of Utah exhibit of the Springville Art Museum, in 2014. I was tickled to see patrons peering and looking around the painting for any evidence of said Army. I was also glad to have a patron express his appreciation that this conveys a dark element of religion, or that God is not without wrath. Let's just let the wrath remain God's though, ok? Okay. ~ This is a proof of style or concept for a future work to be entitled WHOSE WAVES ROARED. A digital underpainting or chaotic sea bed of square panels was done for this in 3D Studio Max. I also created this via Corel Painter X and Photoshop.

Follows a concept preview for the mentioned future painting. I would really love to have it fill a wall (or hang on the side of a building) a hundred feet wide and 50 feet tall, and I'm going to develop it to that intent. It will be a composite super ridiculously large work to print on–I don't know, crass advertising canvas?– when it's done.

These works were previously titled, respectively, Abstraction(s) 00016, 00017, 00018, 00019, and 00020 Pharaoh's Army.