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Catalog No.
01a04-1
SOLD
8 1/2" x 11"
Painting in gouache on Fabriano Watercolor paper
Price
$139
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"I like your painting," someone once said to me. "But were
you thinking of what God may have done on the third day?"
they asked. I was both inspired and dismayed by her question
since it immediately brought to light the real reasoning
behind my title. "The Third Day" in fact had little to do
with God's immaculate plan. Rather, I was drawn to
something simplistic and technical -- specifically how the
moon's phase always appears on "its third day." The
spiritual question intrigued me though and I now admit a bit
of regret for keying in on something so basic as how the
moon will look in the sky early in the month. I mention
this person's curiosity however because it does spark the
imagination. We can look into this night scene and ask
ourselves "What DID happen on the third day?" I read the
first part of Genesis after asking this question. And as it
turned out, God did a lot of things. He made the oceans and
the land masses. He also "brought forth" seed-bearing
plants and filled the earth with lot of vegetation under the
heavens. It was not until three days following this that
God made man. Day and night had not even come into
existance. Imagine how desolate yet so rich the world must
have been then. Green life must have seemed so magnificent
against the dark rock jutting up from the oceans. I wonder
if God had made wind then as well.
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