Triumphal Entry
Triumphal Entry
This year, I really wanted to have a new painting for Palm Sunday,
so, only a few days behind schedule, I am releasing this painting.
Sometimes called the Triumphal Entry, this event in the life of Jesus
Christ is told in all four gospels in the New Testament. What I
noticed as I read through the accounts this time in preparation for
both celebrating on Sunday, and for painting this work, is that there
is a sense of foreboding, or foreshadowing in the telling.
Painted with the finest quality acrylic heavy-body paint on canvas panel
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For this painting, I
knew I wanted to use green, and in fact, I originally wanted green to
be the most prominent color in the painting, but it seems the
painting itself had other ideas. (Ha!) I started working on the arch
shape in a couple of colors of green over the gold underpainting, and
liked the way the first layers were giving a sense of movement – my
eye moved through the arch as if I had been entering through a gate
myself. I think that movement is my favorite thing about this
painting.
In one of the earliest layers, I used one of my favorite tools to put marks in the “gate” and I began to make a cross shape. I wanted to foreshadow Good Friday, even as I painted Palm Sunday. I used red in the painting, both to tie this work with several others about Holy Week (links at the end of this post) and also to reinforce the concept of the crucifixion that Jesus was moving toward. The red is strongest near the cross shape, which I see when my eye passes through the gate.
Green refers to the palm branches that were spread under the feet of Jesus’ donkey as He rode into Jerusalem. Metallic gold is a reference to His deity, and the purple to His royal majesty. The use of white is a nod to eternity.
Note: these blog posts cover some of my Easter focused works from several years ago. The blog posts and paintings work together to tell the Easter story. There is a group of posts from 2016, and then newer posts that coordinate with the 2016 series.
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