Biblically Inspired Art

[Davey Do]

To answer your questions Big Moose and crossnote, my character, Davey Do plays the parts of Jesus and Judas, since I enjoy drawing him so much. As a child, I loved drawing the character of Snoopy and thought, "I need to come up with a character based on me that I enjoy drawing as much". Many characters represented me until, in 2006, I was on a long bike ride where there were high winds, and I thought of A. A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh and the Blustery Day". Winnie-the-Pooh became Davey-the-Do, then Davey Do, a stylized shortened version of my given name, and a comic character followed.

I've worn glasses since the age of eight, so my characters do the same. Instead of specifically rendering the likeness of certain characters, Davey Do plays their part.

Artists enrich the lives of others through self-expression in its many forms.

Well said, thenami, and "in its many forms" is a good segeway into this next image.

I often tell my wife, Belinda, that, she too, is an artist to which she disagrees saying something like, "I've always thought of artists as those who paint or sculpt". I counter with, "Art is the manipulation of media, and one of your medias is yarn".

After I fashioned a Claymation character of Jesus, I suggested to Belinda that she create a knitted character, to which she did and it's adorable!

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[crossnote]

Davey Do plays the parts of Jesus and Judas,

This reminds me of an apparent folktale (probably not true) of Leonardo DaVinci's painting of the Last Supper, where it is told that Jesus and Judas were the same person-unintentionally...

A story is told that Leonardo da Vinci painted "The Lord's Supper" when living in Milan. Before he could paint the thirteen figures, it was necessary to find men who could serve as models. Each model had to have a face that expressed da Vinci's vision of the particular man he would represent. Needless to say, this proved to be a tedious task to find just the right face.

When Leonardo da Vinci was painting his masterpiece, The Last Supper, he selected as the person to sit for the character of the Christ a young man, Pietri Bandinelli by name, connected with the Milan Cathedral as chorister. Years passed before the great picture was completed, and when one character only — that of Judas Iscariot — was wanting, the great painter noticed a man in the streets of Rome whom he selected as his model. With shoulders far bent toward the ground, having an expression of cold, hardened, evil, saturnine, the man seemed to afford the opportunities of a model terribly true to the artist’s conception of Judas. When in the studio, the profligate began to look around, as if recalling incidents of years gone by. Finally, he turned and with a look half-sad, yet one which told how hard it was to realize the change which had taken place, he said, "Maestro, I was in this studio twenty-five years ago. I, then, sat for Christ."

(For what Snopes is worth, -and full story)... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-last-supper/

 

[Davey Do]

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