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Denise Klitsie started her career as a layout artist for Disney Feature Animation, then turned to painting, and then to magazine illustration. She credits Fuller Theological Seminary’s magazine with giving her “a place to be an artist serving the church.” Her illustrations use narrative, symbols, and collage to develop a theme, as in this one on the subject of healing, in which the scene in the operating room includes a pisanki Easter egg, an image laden with Christian meaning.

A self-published collection of 15 woodcuts, The Apocalypse, by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) continues to influence how artists employ woodcuts and how the faithful interpret the apocalyptic visions of scripture. Woodcut is a printing technique in which the image is created in reverse on a block of wood. The artist must cut away the negative spaces, leaving the printing surface raised above other portions of the block. Since this design will be reversed left to right by printing, the carving must be the mirror reverse of the intended image.