18" x 24" on Sketch Paper
Book 7 Poster 7
Deterioration, Deliverance, Depravity
Religiously, Politically, and Morally
Judges is a cycle of sin, the consequences of those sins, and salvation from those sins, repeated seven times over a period of about 350 - 400 years. Rather than make a picture of all that was done wrong I chose to concentrate on the people that were the judges after Joshua died.
I often use photos from magazines for my models and I was looking for faces of leaders when I found one that was of Presidents Reagan, Bush, Carter, Ford and Nixon, and thought that would be great to include them. You probably won't recognize them because I always try to make enough changes when using someone else's photos so as not to be copying but to just use them for ideas. Reagan and Bush are on the left and Carter, Nixon and Ford are on the right. Of course their attire changes their appearance as well.
One of the judges was listed as left handed and he is in the yellow ochre outfit at the top holding his sword. I'm afraid without looking back I do not recall his name. Gideon is at the left wearing a rather turquoise blue holding his wet fleece. Shamgar is beside and towards the middle wearing blue and holding his ox goad (stick). Barak was a whimp and wouldn't do it with out the help of Deborah. He is the one in green and yellow just behind her left shoulder. Samson is at the bottom left corner. I know I haven't named them all but that is all I can remember off the top of my head.
What I do remember is that by the time I finished studying Judges, drawing and coloring this picture I had come to know these judges as people not much different than ourselves. They were left handed, right handed, brave, afraid, insecure, questioning, raised by believing parents, family men, morally weak, spiritually strong, and just everyday people.
One other thing you see in this picture are idols. These may look like little statues but they are there to represent not only false gods but the spiritual decline of the tribes in general.
There is one free floating hand holding a gavel in the center representing the judgment of the nations.
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