A goddess. A mother. A virgin. A lover. A temptress. A queen. A muse. The female figure has always had a special spot in art history. She's been admired, desired, idealized, feared, pitied, celebrated, criticized, and immortalized. Sometimes, she shows up as a real person. Other times, she's more like an idea turned into human form.

Photo by Zach Key on Unsplash A global pandemic. A war raging in Europe. Racial injustice. Gun violence. Rising inflation, gasoline, and food costs. With everything going on in the world right now, a seemingly logical question may be, "why would anyone bother with art right now?" Or we may hear, "Art is a luxury, not a necessity". But is that really so? In my last post I mentioned how art, specifically the philosophy of kintsugi, helped people deal with the stress caused by

Carl Gustav Jung So I digress. I was intending to write a post covering the second painting in the 'Eve' series, 'The Temptation Of Adam '. But, as I was drawing the profile picture of one of the most pivotal characters of my book, 'The Substance of Things Hoped For', a thought occurred to me. as I drew the picture of the Animus , I realized how dark the picture looked. How...demonic. As a Christian, I usually shy away from such depictions; I don't even watch horror movies