Ehud (Study)
So as some of you know I am working on the next series The Book of Judges
It will be an epic sized 40-60 panel series encompassing all of the most overlooked book in the Bible. It's violent, heart-breaking and utterly compelling and I'm going to throw the next year at it. It'll push me past anything I've done in the past in terms of scale, complexity, technique and the shear number of people that need to be involved.
A few months ago I received a grant to do it. They said it was their favorite in 3000 to come in that year. It was a huge honor. It was the first I ever wrote, but unfortunately it was a matching grant...and there was no money to match it with. I couldn't accept it.
The director came out to see me personally in October suggesting ways to raise the money so that they could give us the grant. He said that if they could not fund the project, they would consider their year a failure...
We were thinking of every avenue possible, but just days before Christmas he called a special meeting of their board of directors just for this project. They voted for the first time in their history, and against their bylaws, to waive the matching status and to just give us the funds to do the project.
it's a humbling honor and now it's time to deliver.
This is Ehud, the second Judge (deliverer) of his people in a time where there was no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
small oilgraph on panel
Ehud (Study)
So as some of you know I am working on the next series The Book of Judges
It will be an epic sized 40-60 panel series encompassing all of the most overlooked book in the Bible. It's violent, heart-breaking and utterly compelling and I'm going to throw the next year at it. It'll push me past anything I've done in the past in terms of scale, complexity, technique and the shear number of people that need to be involved.
A few months ago I received a grant to do it. They said it was their favorite in 3000 to come in that year. It was a huge honor. It was the first I ever wrote, but unfortunately it was a matching grant...and there was no money to match it with. I couldn't accept it.
The director came out to see me personally in October suggesting ways to raise the money so that they could give us the grant. He said that if they could not fund the project, they would consider their year a failure...
We were thinking of every avenue possible, but just days before Christmas he called a special meeting of their board of directors just for this project. They voted for the first time in their history, and against their bylaws, to waive the matching status and to just give us the funds to do the project.
it's a humbling honor and now it's time to deliver.
This is Ehud, the second Judge (deliverer) of his people in a time where there was no king and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
small oilgraph on panel