Our Grandfather/Granddaughter Lucy & “Ba” Art/Icon Art Project

I’ve just launched a new show of icon art I collaborated with my 7 year old granddaughter Lucy on. She draws the pictures and I paint them in. A motif in modern art has been to capture the primitive forms and childlike wonder present in children’s art. I’ve gone one better and actually am working with a child in an equal partnership. And this isn’t just any child, this is the little girl for whom Genie and I provide daily care. She is my heart. These paintings are about the love that drives me to my knees in thanksgiving. Please take a look at my art site and these paintings athttp://frankschaefferart.com/frank–lucy.html. 
Thank you,
Best,
Frank (Ba”)

Please WATCH our “launch” video (only 2 min) then take a look at the Lucy “Ba” Icons below…

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A Bad Day for Satan Jesus Defeats Death and is Raised

Detail Lucy loves the resurrection icons in church, draws them while I watch her and know that this moment is heaven right here, right now… Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $535Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Angels Come to Announce Resurrection (after Fra Angelico)

Details Lucy loves Fra Angelico’s paintings and said “Ba, I want to make a picture of his angels bursting through the clouds to come get us” … all the joy of childhood and hope is here.Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 12, © 2015Price: $635Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Jesus and the Four Gospel Writers and Lucy

Details Icons are basic, in fact child-like, a perfect place to forget the theology and remember the grace.Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $535 Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Jesus on a Cross

Details What a child sees is the truth of the barbarity of what was done to people and is still done.Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $835, SOLDEmail frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Jesus Shows the Way Past Death is Love

Details I never suggested any of these compositions, the ancient icons did with a child’s vision of love, one I hope for and share. Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 12, © 2015Price: $535 Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Jesus With a Gospel Book

Details The book, the good news, the grace, the joy, is there anything else?Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $535 Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Jesus, Lucy and All Pets go to Heaven on the Same Day

Details It’s the exuberance a child sees in the gospel minus the deadly certainty only grownups insist on.Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $535 Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Matthew Mark Luke and John Comfort Jesus & Catch His Blood

Details I love the vision of the ritual here, the iconic basics of liturgy are so bold, so lived out in a daily embrace of beauty.Oil paint on canvas, 24 x 12, © 2015Price: $935, SOLD Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Peace on Earth and Good Will to All People!

Details From the Noah story to now, here’s the promise of the rainbow.Oil paint on canvas, 18 x 18, © 2015Price: $535 Email frankaschaeffer@aol.com  about this painting

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Photo Gallery

Lucy at work on Jesus and the Four Gospel Writers and Lucy.

Lucy Drawing Jesus With a Gospel Book.

Lucy Working on Jesus, Lucy and All Pets go to Heaven on the Same Day.

First Sketch of Jesus With a Gospel Book.

Frank Schaeffer is a writer. His latest book —WHY I AM AN ATHEIST WHO BELIEVES IN GOD: How to give love, create beauty and find peace

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