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Art Story | Paper Dolls – “Walking in Love” (2017)

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Artist: Michelle Bentham

Size: 11×14 Canvas

Medium: Mixed Media – Acrylics & Paper

Date: February 1, 2017

This painting is one in a series of mixed-media features called Paper Dolls. Paper Dolls are figures drawn onto watercolor paper and then dressed up with acrylic paints before being fixed to an acrylic background on canvas.

Based on Ephesians 5:2, Michelle developed the paper figure and heart concept for this painting while working on a commission project for a client in 2015. Later, she loved the paper figure so much she recreated her on an 11×14 canvas and “Walking in Love” was born.

“We walk in love, as Christ has loved us, giving Himself for us. Our life surrendered as a sacrifice, a sweet and fragrant offering, wholly pleasing to the Lord our God.” – Ephesians 5:2 (paraphrased from the NKJV)

Michelle draws her inspiration in art from her time spent connecting to His heart through intimacy, devotion and prayer. She lives to help others connect to God’s heart through creative expression. This painting came to represent a beautiful illustration of the promise that when we are in Christ we have the power to walk in His love the way He loved us. To walk in the love of Christ toward others, we have to give up our comfort and our time and risk rejection to step out and offer others the love Christ so freely gave us. Scripture says that when we live our lives sacrificially toward others, it becomes a pleasing aroma to our Poppa God!

She painted this piece for display at The Against the Grain Studio in 2017, and her work was hosted there from 2017-2018 in Granbury, Texas.

This painting found its home in an online “Closet Auction” hosted through Facebook in late 2018. Archival Quality Giclee Prints are available for sale with or without frames.

Original Artwork & Art Stories ©2021 Michelle Bentham. All Rights Reserved

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