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Journey of the Rose

Before this piece took on three-dimensional life, it was an original concept drawn in pen and ink on calfskin vellum (a material that will outliv...

Tools of the Trade: Calligraphy

With all the various trades that I put my hands to, I am frequently asked what tools I use to create each work of art.  So, in order to satisfy t...

Tools of the Trade: Drawing

Of all the art forms that I do, drawing is my oldest friend. It is what has matured my skills as an artist and what still hones them today.   While...

The Desire to Create: 5 Ways to Cultivate Creativity

We desire to create. Build. Discover. Imagine. Establish.  Don’t we all? In some capacity or another, each of us desires to create.  Such a fam...

The Makings of an Altar

Before the craft, there was the man. Before the art, there were the hands. Every piece that reigns as a master was first born on scraps of paper in...

Jake Weidmann at TEDX Mile High

Jake speaks from the TEDx stage on the subject of Why Write? As a certified Master Penman, Jake sheds light upon our writing heritage and why it is...

King of the Boundless Sea

For nights on end, My Artist collects magnifying detail on paper, the face of a man whom emerges from the mist collected around his head; his eye...

Through the Eyes of An Artist

Beneath the Wings

Finally, the day we have anticipated for so long has finally come and has only recently passed: our wedding day! People say it is the “happiest ...

O Come, O Come Immanuel!

The name “Immanuel,” which means “God with us,” is essentially handed off to the Holy Spirit at Jesus’s ascension- “I am with you always, even to ...

Romance of the Pen

Valentine’s Day is just beyond the horizon and I am a hopeless romantic with a pen - brace yourself!      I happen to think, with every bias admi...

Three Kings

This series, "Three Kings," is my modern expression of iconography. Within these three paintings I have depicted an metaphor of the Holy Trinity.