Christmas Red

Christmas Red

This year I am finding the traditional Christmas colors more appealing than I do many years. I mentioned earlier this season that unusual decorations and colors are often more appealing to me, but this year seems different. Yesterday I began releasing a new series of paintings that tell the story of mankind, and the Christmas story of man's redemption. Today's painting is Christmas Red.

There are so many ideas of why red has become a traditional Christmas color, but for my series, red represents the gift of redemption given by Jesus through His shed blood. One Christmas tradition that I find beautifully meaningful is that of the candy cane. The story of this tradition that I find so delightful is that of a candy maker who shaped the canes into a J shape to represent Jesus (or, alternatively, a hook to remind of the shepherds who came to see the baby Jesus) and added the red stripes to correspond to the blood He shed for us. For every person. 

Part of the Wordless Book piece

5 each  7" x 5" paintings mounted and framed

Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper

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Romans 5:9-11 Much more then, since we have now been declared righteous by His blood, we will be saved through Him from wrath. For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life! And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have now received this reconciliation through Him.

The red in this painting is a deep red, and it reminds me of velvet. The composition is a vertical composition, suggesting flow downwards, and eyes turned upward. The piece is heavily textured, and iridescent gold reminds of both Christmas, and God Himself.