The blog of artist, Jared Boggess.
Today is the release date for Visual Arts Center of Richmond’s Fall course catalog. I had the pleasure of creating illustrations for the cover and interior pages. I drew lots of hands (which I can never get enough of).
I’m serving as their illustrator-in-residence for the Fall, so I’ll be teaching a workshop on Saturday October 29. If you’re in the area, please sign up! It’s a nominal fee and I’m excited to be share some of the techniques I use in my work.
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#artists on tumblr #drawing #jared boggess #Illustration #art #painting #typewriter #printer #letterpressEarly in his reign, the Israelite God, Yahweh, surprises Solomon in his sleep after a long day of mountainside ritual sacrifice. Like a genie, he tells Solomon to make a wish. Instead of praying for riches and power, Solomon asks for wisdom. Yahweh is so pleased by the request that he promised riches and power anyway.⠀
However Yahweh ends with the first of many warnings that these blessings are on the condition that Solomon follows and worships only Yahweh, setting the stage for Solomon’s lifelong personal battles.
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Solomon’s rise to the throne comes through a tangle of political intrigue. When his father David becomes weak and impotent, Solomon’s brother makes a claim to kingship, but Solomon’s mother Bethseba and the prophet Nathan sweep in and convince the ailing king David to go ahead and crown Solomon. It all stinks of political corruption, but the narrative suggests YHWH is working in spite of it. Solomon parades through the streets of Jerusalem setting a pattern echoed centuries later by Jesus, a wholly different kind of king.
See for it yourself: 📖 1st Kings, Chapter 1⠀
Art by @jared_boggess. KICKSTARTER for our new book is LIVE.⠀
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Station III. On Trial
After Jesus is arrested in the dead of night, he‘s taken straight to the high priest’s home for a sham of a trial. Jesus watches in silence as they argue over how to incriminate him. Tired of witnesses stories not matching up, the high priest storms out in front of Jesus and ask him directly if he claims the loaded title of “Messiah”. Jesus at last speaks up admitting it. Then he goes further and claims to fulfill a prophecy about a perfect human, the Son of Man, who will be enthroned beside the God of Israel.
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From “New Stations of the Cross”, our new ltd. ed. risograph book now on Etsy.
Station I. Agony in the Garden
Jesus has been in Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish world, for about a week. Late on Thursday night, he takes some time away to pray in a wooded garden on the hills outside the city. At this point, he knows the temple leaders are scheming. He knows his teaching threatens their power. He knows they will do their worst to stop him. He knows they will torture him and he will be killed. Jesus knows what is coming and could very well escape. But in his tormented prayer in the garden, Jesus commits to go through with it. Grieved and terrified, Jesus stays. He stays for the sake of ensuring the authenticity of his teaching.
From “New Stations of the Cross”, our new ltd. ed. risograph book now on Etsy.
We tend to obsess over our “beliefs” and our theology and our practices, but the Christian tradition started with an event. The goal of my forthcoming book “New Stations of the Cross” is to force us to reckon with the question: what if I carried with me the memory of Jesus’ suffering like the grief of a lost loved one?
This is why I am making this book—because I want something that challenges me to remember Jesus‘ torture and humiliation. He deserves it.
PREORDER the book and back the project on Indiegogo: https://igg.me/at/NewStations
