I'm Illustrating The Old Testament In Psychedelic Style

Currently, I am illustrating the entire Old Testament, aiming to complete it Christmas Day, 2017. I began this project a year and a half ago after discovering how the Old Testament is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for my way of painting intense depictions of human appetite with humor and darkness.

I am not approaching this with a religious mind, but rather as a personal exploration of the ancient text, and am reading it for the first time as I illustrate, book by book. With over 120 illustrations, I am now finished with the eleventh book: Kings 1. There will be over 300 illustrations, and I want them published alongside the entire text of the King James’ Old Testament, in a striking visual interpretation of the most widely read book in history.

I am spacing my illustrations in relation to the text so that the eventual product can be formatted with a page of text on the left, and a full color illustration on the right, for the whole book. And if it all works out, there will be a copy of the book in each hotel room in the USA.

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“And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave: So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates. The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.”

“This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Ju’-dah by their families; even to the border of E’-dom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward: And it went out to the south side to Ma’-a-leh-ac-rab’-bim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Ka’-desh-bar’-ne-a, and passed along to Hez’-ron, and went up to A’-dar, and fetched a compass to Kar’-ka-a: From thence it passed toward Az’-mon, and went out unto the river of E’-gypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.”

“And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.”

“And king Sol’-o-mon, and all the congregation of Is’-ra-el, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.”

“And A-bim’-e-lech gat him up to mount Zal’-mon, he and all the people that were with him; and A-bim’-e’lech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it, and laid it on his shoulder, and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.”

“And Da’-vid and all the house of Is’-ra-el played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.”