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Getting creative: a video shoot for LifeGroups

April 28th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Miscellaneous


Get Creative from Alison Dowdy on Vimeo.

The video’s producer asked me to create a painting that was outside the lines of the color-by-number template he gave me. I think it took me a day or two to paint this painting. Although I love how the painting turned out, I still haven’t filled in the middle.

We created this video as an introduction to a LifeGroups video during One Prayer 2008. Check out One Prayer at http://www.oneprayer.com for information about the 2009 event.

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Serve somebody

April 28th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Miscellaneous

I’m passionate about serving others, as we are asked to in 1 Peter 4:10, “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.” You can read more about my service opportunities at http://365daysofservice.com. I’ve been documenting my adventures for the past year there.

It’s great to have a friend whose also a video producer, because you get invited to do awesome things like participate in video shoots like this one. We spent the morning setting up the various shots and it was fun to showcase Berkeley’s room that I recently completed for friends. (I’ll have pictures of the room up very soon.) This was a promotional video played at LifeChurch.tv for Dino Rizzo’s church, Healing Place Church, and their initiative called “Servolution“. Dino’s written a book by the same name: http://www.servolution.org/book/.


HPC’s Servolution promo from Alison Dowdy on Vimeo.

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Old Testament video, painting a picture of Jesus

April 28th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Girls Rooms, Miscellaneous


Painting a picture of Jesus from Alison Dowdy on Vimeo.

This is a few minutes long… but it’s great information for everyone. LifeChurch.tv’s KONNECT 5 curriculum is aimed at kids in 5th grade. This is a video for those kids, and a friend had asked that I paint a portrait of Jesus. My first thought was how do you start a portrait of Jesus?? I wanted to recreate my personal belief that Jesus appears to each of us differently. I captured that thought through this painting reminiscent of a Warhol silkscreen.

Past work, just for fun

April 4th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Miscellaneous, Older Work

I got a new camera recently, and in order to learn how to use it, I have been photographing some of my older work. I thought I’d post those photos, just for fun. I need to keep practicing my technique, because these are not the best photos I can take, but it’s fun to see how much my work has changed over the years.