drawing

Some Drawings about Mary Magdalene

from the Diary of a Tree Standing On Its Head

Mary anointing the feet of Jesus. I find myself, in my heart seeing Mary of Bethany and Mary Magdalene as one Mary- incidentally I also see them as Eve.

Walking Man Attending to the Braids of Mary Magdalene Attending to the Feet of Christ

Revelations of the Artist

I’m excited to share that I’ve been featured in Revelations of the Artist: Book 2 — a limited-edition collection that highlights 20 artists of faith and their creative journeys.

Each artist, including me, has only 100 copies of the book featuring their art on the cover. This project is more than just a book — it’s a testimony to how God lives through the creative life. Help us bring this impactful book to the world by reaching three milestones:

Printing the book,
Supporting the featured artists, and
Funding outreach to children living in hardship in Ecuador.

When you pre-purchase my edition, you help make all three goals possible.
And as a special thank-you, the first 20 pre-purchase customers will receive a FREE copy of ROTA Book 1, while waiting for Book 2!

Here’s the link to pre-purchase your copy: https://www.artserveint.org/rota-2/p/baumwerkj-cover

Crucifixion Drawing for Saint Bede’s Box

preliminary drawing of the crucifixion for the painted panels of the Saint Bede’s Box project.

I am leaning heavily on Gruenwald for this drawing of the crucifixion scene. This image will be transferred to a wooden panel for oil painting.

Go On, Wounded Healer

From The Diary of a Tree Standing on it’s Head

The wound and the five wounds

Orion Visits John Moriarty

From The Diary of a Tree Standing On It’s Head

John Moriarty describes a dream in which he hears a knock on his door late at night. He opens the door to the incarnation of the constellation of Orion. Orion as a representative of the whole Universe has come to deliver a message to John (as a representative of humanity?), concerning the accumulation of everything which humanity has believed about the Universe, well, the Universe doesn’t recognize themself in any of it.

Recent Drawings From The Diary of a Tree Standing on its Head

Sacred Heart

This drawing is part of The Diary of a Tree Standing on it’s Head series I’ve been working on.

I also decided to make some prints of this one. They are for sale here at Baumwerkshop.com

The Great Beast

Exploring the Recurring Theme of the Great Beast and the Prone Man

I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the recurring image of the Lion/Dog-Chimera/Beast standing guard over the prone man in my work from the past 2 1/2 decades. The Beast Himself shows up in many other works, but today I am concerned with His appearance specifically over this lying-down (dead?)man; an obscured self-portrait echo of Hans Holbein’s Dead Christ.

When I first started making these images, I was very uncertain of the beast. Is he good or evil? Is he standing guard to protect the man from being devoured or to devour him himself? As time has gone on plenty of uncertainty remains, yet I feel that the beast transcends the duality of good and evil- I could even venture that he transcends it as goodness.

Pushing a bit harder, I might say the beast is the Angel of the Holy Spirit- if that’s too far, I can retreat to the ground that he is “messenger”.

Entering into the imaginal space of these images, the land of spiritual vision, allows their merger with memory and experience. That’s a leap into what some call the realm of the unseen. As for me, I say it is a seen realm, but with other eyes. They are my memories and experiences.

The man, is he alive or dead or both. He begins to be folded into the Earth in later drawings. And fully inhabits the worship life cycle of growth and decay by the last image. The relationships have matured a little bit perhaps? Time will tell.