I want to introduce an artist I've been cynical of for years. When I first picked up her first book and began reading, I thought 1) She couldn't possibly be real; there was some sort of weird
work at play here and 2) I was right away extremely jealous.
Akiane Kramarik is a child prodigy in both painting/drawing and poetry. She works roughly two hundred hours on a given painting; paints anything from a horse or swan to Jesus with his arms lifted high. The really, really awesome thing about Akiane? She does all of this for God.
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| Grr, more terrible quality. x_x Anyway, this is a painting of Jesus talking to God when he was 14 as according to Akiane. |
Akiane was born in Illinois to a relatively simple family. She has four brothers and two parents who don't pursue any kind of art. At the age of 4, Akiane had a life changing experience (I need to read the book again, I can't remember exactly what happened, but I'm pretty sure it was something along the lines of a dream) that brought her to God. She hadn't gone to church previously, neither was her family religious.
Her family became saved as Akiane painted more and more images for her Creator and became more and more zealous in proclaiming the good news about God.
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| This piece is entitled, "Returning Home". Excuse the bad quality (it was hard to find a pic of this one). This is probably one of my favorite works of Akiane's simply because there's so much in it, and it's so beautiful. |
What really made me cynical of her is how she comes about her inspiration for images. In her book, "Akiane--her art, her life, and her poetry" Akiane talks about being blessed with visions to paint. This isn't the case for each of her paintings, but, for example, in this painting, "Prince of Peace", Akiane was given a vision of Jesus. She explains more in her book, but she'd received some sort of detailed image and felt she had to paint it. So at age 8, so did just that.
Needless to say, I've decided to not try and understand these visions of Akiane's, and I've decided that it's better to just admire her incredible work. It's beautiful, and every single one of her works leads back to the Creator who gifted her with her incredible, awesome talent.
Please go check out her website! Her pieces are incredible, and read the descriptions too because they are amazing.
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