20130918 - St. Francis Statue in Garden

I finished the painting of the St. Francis statue in a flower garden. This painting came out okay. It's not quite what I wanted. But it's not bad either.

I intended for the statue to be the most detailed object. The rest of the garden was painted to provide the impression of a flower garden. For a reason. It's the saints among us who are the most concrete (pun somewhat intended) individuals. We assume that their positions and beliefs make them less "worldy", when it is they that make the most difference. At once they see the world both as it IS and as it SHOULD BE. Then they go do the impossible. They transform the world in which we live to make it more like what it should be.

Isn't it odd that the saints among us see the world and us as the clay beneath their fingers. As much as we try to venerate them, but hold them at arms length, they wade into life and live it fully. And in so doing, they change our world for the better.