Tuesday, July 15, 2008

nursery prints

mike & i ordered a series of 3 8x10 pencil sketches of jesus holding infants that i plan on framing & hanging in our baby's nursery...i want our child to know that he or she will always be held in the hands of our creator and these are beautiful visual reminders of that.
the drawings are done by artist jean keaton...i've actually used some of her work in signs i've done for the church because i'd originally found out about her when i received an e-mail with images of her work. the images are easy to copy & paste & i could have had them blown up to 8x10 size at a photo place, but after realizing that they were copywritten & reading her story on her website, we decided to do the right thing & purchase them (esp. considering i'd already used them without permission on the church signs because i didn't know any better!).
thought i'd share her website with you...she does truly marvelous work & does a nice job of not protraying jesus in that 'old man way'. enjoy!
http://www.keatonprints.com/
to find the images i ordered go to the website, click on the 'prints' button on the left, & choose the 'as i have loved you' series. we ordered the first 3 from that series. many of her drawings from the 'for they shall be comforted' series have a story to go with them--the drawings are actual portrayals of real children, many of whom have passed on. perhaps the most touching to me is the 'five little angels'...top row, fifth from the left. click on the small image & it will bring it up in larger scale..underneath you can read the story...many other images are the same--if you click on them they will have a story to go with them.

2 comments:

Andrea Frederick said...

that story about those little girls is way too sad.

Finding Joy in the Journey said...

very...not one you want to read daily, huh?