Oversaved

I am starting this blog to mainly improve my skills to better talk about my art. I had a blog I did this two years ago with my Eye of God show:   http://shelleywhitingeyeofgodshow.blogspot.com/ . This blog will coincide with breaks for calls for art and pieces for group shows. But I will continue this blog as long as the pictures for the series progress. I will also being taking photographs of each painting as it unfolds. I was reading the church manual on Brigham Young. He said “No man   can be   oversaved .” This was a bizarre concept for me. When I heard this I thought of a church figure like a missionary or a priest with holy water coming repeatedly to save someone. Like an intervention that won’t stop. The figures are lightly inspired by a cute 1960s movie called Mad Monster Party. It is a claymation musical with Boris Karloff and vampires. It’s sort of like gothic cereal figures. Has a nice retro feel but also very silly. For years I have wanted to paint spirit bab