![]() ![]() His missionary board fired him for becoming too involved! He then turned to art as his way to serve God, painting ordinary laborers in ways that showed them as bearers of God’s image, no matter how poor. RELATED: No Journey Too Far By Carrie Turansky – Here Is The Wonderful PrologueĬompassion and God’s unconditional love drove him to become so involved in the people’s lives that he lived in poverty himself to help meet their needs. But after failing the seminary entrance exam, he became a missionary to impoverished coal miners in Belgium instead. His father and grandfather were ministers, and Vincent wanted to follow their footsteps. What isn’t well-known about Vincent van Gogh’s background is his fervent Christian faith. Each of my characters’ response to the Nazi persecution of Jews depends on a variety of complex factors. He inspires me to dig deeply into the backgrounds of my characters and the motivations behind their behaviors. Van Gogh is mostly known for his struggle with mental illness, which caused him to cut off his ear, but there is so much more to his story. I could spend all day in the Van Gogh Museum viewing his works, which pulse with vibrant color and emotion. My favorite Dutch artist is Vincent van Gogh, whose Sunflowers and Starry Night are easily recognizable. I search especially for a few vivid details that will bring the story to life-such as an eyewitness’s account of her emotions as she watched Nazi paratroopers spilling from airplanes in the dark of night. Naturally, a novel about WWII requires a lot of research, which I then distill into a story. Rembrandt’s work The Night Watch, which I saw in the Rijksmuseum, features enough fascinating characters to people an entire novel! For inspiration, I like to keep photographs on my desk of what I imagine my characters to look like, so I require a lot of diverse faces of various ages. I especially love the father’s expression in his painting Return of the Prodigal Son. Unlike other portrait artists of his day who minimized their subjects’ flaws, Rembrandt painted his characters as if peering into their souls, showing deep emotion in their facial expressions and eyes. One of my favorite artists, Rembrandt, did especially well with emotion in his paintings. In creating my characters, I tried to burrow deep inside their hearts, capturing their grief and fear as they faced the Nazis so my readers could experience it, too. The Dutch declared neutrality when the war broke out, but the Nazis staged a surprise invasion and quickly overran the tiny country, turning the lives of my main characters-Lena, Miriam, and Ans-upside down. These great masters have been especially helpful in inspiring my newest novel, Chasing Shadows, which takes place in the Netherlands during World War II. There’s such beauty in the serene Dutch landscapes and so much depth in the portraits. I could spend hours there, and I’m always filled to the brim with creative inspiration afterwards. On my many trips to the Netherlands for book tours, my Dutch publisher has treated me to visits to their outstanding art museums, such as the Mauritshuis in The Hague and the Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. When it comes to artists, I’ve found the Dutch masters particularly inspirational. ![]() I'm gonna be smelling like a freaking daisy at school on Tuesday, lmao.“‘Van Gogh engages you’ Sunflowers in front of Van Gogh Museum Museumplein Amsterdam Zuid” by *_* is licensed under CC BY 2.0 ![]() Oh, and happy Easter! What did you guys get, if anything? I've got a bunch of candy and I got some awesome perfume/lotion that I'll be using a lot. Make sure to zoom in if needed to keep your straight lines! Add your PNG, place it over the constelations, and then erase the unwanted areas. Open the template above and go to add image. Make sure to keep your lines straight, or else this might look a little sloppy. Use the brush under the masking tab to zoom in and brush away the unwanted areas. Move the PNG to where it's covering the constellation. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. Open the template below as the background and your PNG as the foreground. It's really easy to do guys so I hope you understand it clearly. Another random template that I tweaked a little from Instagram. ![]()
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