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The Yellow Ochre Newsletter

For over 13 years, I've been an artist in the Christian missionary world. Learn art and mission ideas to spark your creative engagement every Wednesday. Join like-minded artistic Christians looking for that extra nudge to use your creativity for God's mission.

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Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Fear Not Those Who Misunderstand You I’ve been poked fun at before, even in the Christian spaces, for taking the arts seriously. Though it was tongue and cheek, I had a ministry leader often refer...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY An Arts Passport Joseph Zbukvic is one of my favorite watercolor artists. He’s won over 200 awards and accolades. His paintings are, needless to say, captivating. Zbukvic also does plein air...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Propaganda Versus Allusive Art Driving along the great American countryside, a European man observed a billboard. This particular billboard shocked him. It featured an artistically rendered image...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! So, I'm working on my first ever published book. It's 40 meditations on 2 Corinthians based on Paul's missional mindset in 2 Corinthians. I'd love to get your input on the book cover design: Which one do you like more: 1, 2, or 3? -Matt 113 Cherry St #92768, Seattle,...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY "It's like" versus "It is" “It’s like” is a runway for another imaginative world. “It is,” the landing pad. These are not pitted against each other. Many in the church help land the plane. But...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY An Ash-Offering Growing up, becoming an artist was not a highly exalted career path. The Lord saved me while in art school. But I quickly became drawn to church planting and foreign missions. For...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Layers In Meaning-Making God has already endowed meaning into all things. So we can honor what He’s made in creation. Idolatry means we’ve adapted that true meaning, enslaving ourselves to created...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Sacrificial Attitude As I began my early walk with Christ in the local church during college, I met Vivian. Since the 1960s(ish), Vivian and her husband Hardin had been faithful members of this...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Hey guys! Here are three things to spark your inner missional flame: 💥 INSPIRED BY Arts To Bless, Arts To Curse In the book of Exodus, we see two particular expressions of artistic expression (these aren’t the only ones). The first comes with the tabernacle. God sets apart the...

Weekly arts engagement inspiration from Matt Taylor. *Painters use mid-tone colors, such as yellow ochre, to prime their canvases. This helps get over the initial hump of beginning a painting. Matt Taylor SPARK ARTIST Sparking your inner missional flame with weekly inspiration, equipping, and sending exhortations. 💥 INSPIRED BY The Power Of Music & Poetry In Pakistan Don McCurry served as a missionary among Muslims in Pakistan. During one of his early furloughs, McCurry sought to better grasp...