Peace, Be Still!
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to
the other side." And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in
the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose,
and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.
But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said
to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" He woke up
and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased,
and there was a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you
still no faith?" And they were filled with great awe and said to one
another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"
Mark
4:35-41
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
REMBRANDT, Harmenszoon van
Rijn
1633
Stolen 1990
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum
Boston
http://www.mystudios.com/art/bar/rembrandt/rembrandt-sea-galilee.html
This is Rembrandt’s only seascape.
It is widely believed, because of the fourteen people in the boat, that Rembrandt painted himself in the
boat along with the twelve disciples and Jesus. The crewmember looking
out towards the viewer of the painting has been suggested as being a
self-portrait of Rembrandt. *
See Anthony Amore, Director of Security at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum,
describe Rembrandt's one and only seascape,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t0JQ0f2AvQ
It isn't that they can't see the solution.
It is that they can't see the problem.
~ G. K. Chesterton
New life is born out of the pains of the old.
~ Henri Nouwen
Joan Fullerton, who is the
juror for the New Trends show,
gave our Painted Toe group an
entertaining demonstration on Monday.
New
Trends Show
(Colorado
Watercolor Society)
September 7-27, 2012
Madden Museum of Art/Palazzo Verdi
Denver, Colorado
Peggy Durham, with her dog,
“Q,” had a lovely Summer Solstice Party.
“Q”
Laura Mehmert and Sylvia
Brockner
Three young elk bucks
cavorted in the water at the lake on Thursday morning.
Oil
Painters of America’s Twenty-first Annual National Exhibition
will be held at the Evergreen
Fine Art Gallery, in Evergreen, Colorado, June 22 - July 21, 2012.
http://www.evergreenfineart.com/opa.html
Oil Painters of America and
Evergreen Fine Art Gallery
Plein Air “Tent Sale”
Painting: Wednesday, June 20 - Thursday,
June 21
Tent Sale: Saturday, June 23 - Sunday, June 24
Anne Vickstrom and I met many
of the participating Plein Air artists as we walked around the lake.
Ted Garcia, a well-known
Evergreen artist, was one of them.
Tammy Carpenter let me try
out her little inflatable kayak.
Such fun!!!
I want to do it again!
Van Farnsworth entertained
our Book Club in their lovely log home.
I’m not
afraid of storms,
for I’m
learning how to sail my ship.
~ Louisa May
Alcott
June 24, 2012 Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time; 4th Sunday after
Pentecost
Previous OPQs
may be found at:
http://www.dotjack.com/opq.htm
* On the morning of March 18, 1990, thieves disguised as police officers
broke into the museum and stole The Storm on the Sea of Galilee and 12
other works. It is considered the biggest art theft in US history and remains
unsolved. The museum still displays the paintings' empty frames in their
original locations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Storm_on_the_Sea_of_Galilee
Agnus Day, by James Wetzstein
Agnus Day appears with the
permission of www.agnusday.org
1 Sam. 17:(1a, 4–11,
19–23) 32–49
Ps. 9:9–20
or 1 Sam. 17:57–18:5, 10–16
Ps. 133
2 Cor. 6:1–13
Mark 4:35–41