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Walking Man drawing from about 8 or 9 years ago.  #drawing #art #walkingman #mystery #spiritualart Slowly bumbling my way onward through this painting of Revelation 19.  #art #revelation #oilpainting #artprocess #eternal #spiritualart I am glad that @taylorjohnsonfurnitureco believes that Christograms should be carved by hand, and that he invited me to make this one for the pulpit he is building.  Few things are ingrained deeper in my being than the desperate belief that doing and making things with our hands matters to the Holy Whole Universal Everything.  #woodworking #woodcarving #universe #craft #workofthehands #christogram A sample of the past few days cutting and putting up hay, which is a mix of alfalfa, clovers, chicory and brome, as well as cultivating and planting a cover crop of sorghum Sudan grass, sun hemp, sunflowers, cowpeas, and buckwheat.  There is a lot of hay still on the horizon and the harvest of our triticale and peas is just days away.  I wish I knew how to share the experience of being in the fields this time of year- the beauty of crops coming into fullness coupled with an intimate knowledge of how they got there married to the utter mystery of how they got there.  I feel like I am living inside Gods heart as a farmer and a steward.  To witness the struggle, the failure and the triumph  of the cycling twisting braid of life and death continually unfolding around me, under me and within me.  To have the opportunity to steward land is an unfolding and living gift.  We imagine the garden of Eden as a place of abundance and ease, more than a place of intimacy, vulnerability and fulfillment in the midst of a type of labor that doesn’t leave us empty and wasted and a rest that truly fills and restores.  I sometimes wonder if that reality is really as distant as we were taught.  #agriculture #smallfarm #harvest #hay #kansas #covercrops #stewardship Triticale and peas on the left, chicory, brome, alfalfa, and clover on the right.  4 1/2 years of the chicory and alfalfa is the foundation for the small grain, which will ultimately go back into a perennial hay cover after harvest, with a few shorter season cover crops in between.  #smallfarm #covercrop #smallgrains #chicory #triticale #soilhealth Still carving #woodcarving #christogram #blackwalnut #woodwork Detail from “the Spiritual Mechanics of Labor and Rest”  linocut.  #printmaking #linocut #art A carving of a Christogram emerging on a crowded workbench.  This might be a metaphor for my life.  The carving is part of a build by @taylorjohnsonfurnitureco #woodworking #carvingwood #craft #christogram #blackwalnut The sky over the farm this morning.  #thunderstorm #clouds #sky #smallfarm #kansas

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The School of the Transfer of Energy

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Ink Drawing

Spirit and Truth – Labor and Rest

the drawing isn’t finished but it is close. Still adding value to a number of areas.

here is the same drawing a few years ago- before any inking

Posted on January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, illustration, spiritual mechanics, transfer of energy Tagged art, drawing, Ink Drawing, spiritual art 1 Comment

Drawing a Different Economy

untitled ink drawing in process

I’ve been working on this drawing for a number of years. It was intended as a companion to another work, The Spiritual Mechanics of Labor and Rest, pictured below.

The Spiritual Mechanics of Labor and Rest

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, spiritual mechanics, technique and process, transfer of energy Tagged art, drawing, illustration, Ink Drawing, mysticism, spirituality 4 Comments

The Archway

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The Archway, ink on paper, 2002-2003, J Baumgartner

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Posted on April 15, 2013 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Bone Meal Bread, design, Drawings, illustration, transfer of energy Tagged arch, art, drawing, gate, illustration, Ink Drawing, jack baumgartner, sacred art, sacred numerology, the Trinity 5 Comments

Goshen the Ewe Lamb, Lino-Cut and Bezalel’s Workshop.

Goshen, Ewe Lamb, color reduction lino-cut, 4.5″ x 6″

Bezalel’s Workshop,  sumi ink drawing (unfinished) 9″ x 12″

Yaakov, I hope you approve so far 😉

Posted on November 15, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, design, Drawings, illustration, prints, technique and process, transfer of energy Tagged art, Bezalel, color reduction process, colored lino-cut, design, Ink Drawing, lamb, printmaking, sheep, Workshop 5 Comments

Go On, Adam


Go On, Adam 2012 9″x12″

Special thanks to Hans Holbein.

Posted on September 20, 2012September 20, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, transfer of energy Tagged Adam, art, Breath of God, drawing, God, God Creating Adam, Ink Drawing, pen and ink 7 Comments

Breath

Two drawings, about the concept of God’s breath as blessing.  Not quite there yet.

Posted on August 20, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, technique and process, transfer of energy Tagged blessing, drawing, God, Ink Drawing 1 Comment

Silo Angels

Posted on July 2, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, transfer of energy Tagged agriculture, Angels, drawing, Ink Drawing 5 Comments

Surrounded by the Deep

…into the very heart of the seas, and the flood surrounded me…

…the waters closed in over me; the deep surrounded me…

…I went down to the land whose bars closed upon me forever…

 

from the second chapter of Jonah

New Revised Standard Version

Oxford University Press

Posted on February 21, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in Bone Meal Bread, Drawings, transfer of energy Tagged Ink Drawing, Jonah 6 Comments

Terror of Jonah

Posted on February 10, 2012 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, technique and process, transfer of energy Tagged art, Ink Drawing, Jonah 2 Comments

In the Margins

Photos of some business taking place in the margins of larger projects.

drawings of Ezra…

Persimmon bowl…

Posted on April 22, 2011 by jackbaumgartner Posted in art, Drawings, transfer of energy, wooden bowls, woodwork Tagged Ink Drawing, persimmon, wooden bowls Leave a comment

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