Started in late 1999, the "Magen David" series began in Adam Rhine's one-bedroom apartment in Skokie, IL with the watercolor and colored pencil work "Magen David Daled."

Now, eleven years and more than 60 paintings later, the inspiration to create more intensely detailed and brilliantly colored stars has yet to slow.

Each work illuminates a Jewish concept, passage in Scripture, or the name of a holy Biblical figure with Hebrew calligraphy inside a six-pointed star. They are all painted by hand in watercolor, acrylic, and colored pencil and take approx. 40 hours to complete from 1" x 1" doodle in his sketchbook to the final, full-size composition.

Different signed print editions for each design are sold directly through the artist, and select framed original works are, for the first time, available to private collectors.

Click on the thumbnails to the right to read more about each one, and see them in greater detail.

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