Brush Strokes of knowledge

The week where we looked at Joel and painted has by far been my favorite week thus far. Getting to look at the Word and paint! AMAZING! I believe painting is another way of learning. Professor Corrigan really helps to bring this class alive to me.  I clearly remember this week, like it was just last class meeting. Our task was to bring in supplies to paint. Paint what exactly? I didn’t know but I was excited. Even though I can’t really paint, I find it so calming.  To be honest I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I didn’t know what we would be painting but I knew that it wasn’t going to be just your typical painting, just based on what we read in Corrigan’s class. However, it was to paint visually.  He pushes us to go deeper, think deeper, see things, feel things differently and deeper instead of just the bare minimum of the surface of Literature. Like in class discussing the 2 focal points on reading Joel and this was the visual aspect of it. To me not only was I painting visual but I heard and felt what I was painting from the soft stimulating music played and along with what I was reading from the passage I picked which was Joel 2:30-31 “The Day of the Lord “. As I kept reading and seeing the words on the page from this verse, reflection, relaxation and creativity arose as I was painting what I felt. I didn’t paint literally but more abstract you could say. By letting my colors and the strokes speak my feeling, and representing the words and phrases of Joel.

I chose this verse because something about it came alive to me that day we read it aloud.  And I wanted to paint on the wonders that God displayed. I wanted to keep layering what I was grasping from it and continue what I was learning from it, spiritually, poetically, even as a stress reliever all the different types of ways  instead of starting on a new passage to paint. I love the fact that we got to paint to Joel and not to another poem because it was definitely a great way to reflect on God’s word and the paint unto Him to Glorify God through brush strokes.