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| 'Can't Force a Mule' 12x14 acrylic/oil pastels on textured canvas. |
I started prepping my canvas today, should have done it last night so that the prime coat would be finished but...I'm a bit of a procrastinator at times and well that just didn't happen! so anyways I was just trying to get my textured layer that I put on the canvas today to dry faster and somewhere I read that with acrylic material it's better to use the oven that a blow dryer because it dries through and through instead of just the top layer. So i did just that..stuck it into the oven. 10 or so minutes later I'm starting to smell a potent chemical type smell as it wafts through my home in all it's glory and i say to myself "guess i better go check on the canvas". I open up the oven door and the stuff is bubbling up on the canvas like a bad case of the chicken pox! OH DEAR.
I just sat it down on the counter and decided to forget about it for a while, because the last thing i wanted to do was let this ruin my day! I went ahead and primed another canvas but was just going to leave it untextured because then i don't have to use such a thick coat and it can dry faster.
After i got the kids down for a nap i decided just to see what had become of the 'baked canvas' low and behold it was dry and hard as a rock! I guess God can take what seems like a bad thing and make it what he wants to because this painting just fell into place on it...
Now for the explanation of how God speaks to me through this painting. I have always been the type of person that doesn't want to do things just because somebody is telling me to, if I want to do something it's because that's what I've decided to do. So figuratively you might say that my attitude is like that of an old mule...STUBBORN. well as i started putting colors on the canvas today to see what God had for me i started seeing the mule and these three people. When i look at this painting the girl that is trying to pull the mule is me, but the mule is also me, that's why it's hard to delineate where the girls arm ends and the rope for the mule begins, because they are actually attached. Basically this represents my want (the girl pulling) to do what is good and what God calls me to do, then the other desires that are pulling against me (the mule). It's a hard thing sometimes to give up what you sometimes desire in order to do whatever God calls you to do. but the good news is there are always others around just like the two others in the painting which represent the holy spirit and friends in our lives. thanks for reading today! I pray that the holy spirit will move in your life to help you to do whatever things it is that God may have called you to do. That you will be blessed to have strength to endure even the hardest tug or pull in the wrong directions! AMEN!
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