This is my one of a kind masterpiece. Possibly the best painting I have ever done in my life (so don't make fun). I know...doesn't it look so real? You're probably thinking what's going on here. So I guess I will tell you. I tried painting a visual as to what it would look like when Joel was prophesying it. This is what Joel says..."Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; surely it is near. A day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness as the dawn is spread over the mountains, so there is a great and mighty people; there has never been anything like it, nor will there be again after it to the years of many generation. A fire consumes before them and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but a desolate wilderness behind them, and nothing at all escapes them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like war horses, so they run. With a noise as of chariots they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire consuming the stubble, like a mighty people arranged for battle." So down in the bottom left where the red blob is, those are the flames behind them and as you can see the people are running like horses on the top of a mountain. You'll see a few black dots near the people...those are suppose to be locust like Joel talked about in Chapter 1. The sky is suppose to be thick darkness as the dawn is spread over the mountains. It was kind of hard to portray that, but I did my best. This assignment was really fun. And not only was it fun, but I learned. If we didn't paint what we thought about, I would probably forget some of the things I read in Joel. But now it's like this painting is stuck to my brain forever! So in the future, if someone mentions the name of Joel, my lovely painting, which will probably be on my fridge, comes to mind.
One thing to add. I went to my daddys office to scan it into the computer and it was laying on a desk next to a lady who had grandchildren. And my daddy walked in and asked the lady if her grandchild drew that for her! I was like..for real dad! That's my beautiful masterpiece.

"it's like this painting is stuck to my brain forever!"
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Most people focused on the prosperity and fruit of the vine images in Joel, it was nice to see something different.
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