Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder

When I (finally) got a chance to work on this painting last week, the title and the composition and color all came to me really quickly. That is a fairly uncommon thing to have happen, though the first layers of the painting have been on the easel for a L O N G time. Maybe my subconscious has been working on it? 

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30" x 24"

Painted with artist quality heavy-body acrylic paint on recycled panel, framed

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The "steps" on Jacob's Ladder don't necessarily line up for an easy climb in my painting, and the stairway doesn't look like any stairway I would want to try climbing! The colors are brilliant, and there are iridescent, metallic, and interference paints included to help express the idea of something heavenly, not earthly. 

I used "tears" running across the painting in both directions to help me build my structure and to picture some of Jacob's struggles. He was a man of God, but he also made some terrible choices along the way, and had stiff consequences to face. Personally, I find great encouragement in the fact that God still brought about such blessing, and His plans were not spoiled by the missteps of His servant. 

Varnishing Jacob's Ladder

I wasn't aware of why Jacob's Ladder was on my mind until I realized that, not only had I recently seen a social media post that referenced historic paintings of this Biblical account, but I had also just recently read it as I restarted reading through the Bible. The account of Jacob's dream is in Genesis 28:12ff And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it. The Lord was standing there beside him, saying, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying. Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”  He was afraid and said, “What an awesome place this is! This is none other than the house of God. This is the gate of heaven.”

Coram Deo.

Brenda