An Artist Shares in the Mystery of the Annunciation
This painting is the first religious painting for John Meng-Frecker. He explains, " I had an amazing experience with this painting. I had done some oil painting of landscapes but wanted to get a more transparent look. When I switched to watercolor, I also tried a landscape technique on my first religious painting. Praying the rosary every day led me to try the painting...... Mary’s face came out so delicately appropriate and shadowed from the angel’s light. I am an amateur painter (my day job is a civil engineer) and not very good at faces. That moment of grace when the painting appeared so beautifully was my “yes” and my promise to paint the remaining 19 mysteries. read more>