A distich is two lines of Jewish poetry. You are probably familiar with distiches if you have read through Proverbs. As our family has read through Proverbs the last few months, I noticed that there were several different ways these two lines of poetry were arranged. Upon further investigation, I discovered […]
Tag: mixed media
A Blank Book for “Illustrated Proverbs 31”
Is there anything as irresistible as a blank book? When I see a plain cover filled with empty white pages, a thousand and one ideas come flooding into my mind. When I saw this one in Hobby Lobby a few months ago, I had to have it. The cover of this book is sturdy […]
Christmas in June
I’ve been going through and cleaning out hundreds of photos from my recycle bin. Today I came across some photos from our first church art exhibit last Christmas. I had forgotten all about these photos! I had put them on my FB page during the holidays, deleted them after New Year’s, and […]
Sea Shell Finale!
There have been many sea shell drawings around my house lately, and they haven’t all been done by me. My sea shell tag art has inspired my 7 year old and she has been sketching away. This is just one more thing I love about starting this blog. It […]
Sea Shell Tag #12 –the end.
Drawing these shells has been good practice. Yes, it would’ve been so much easier to buy a unmounted sheet of shell stamps somewhere, but again, the goal was drawing practice. So here is #12- A ‘skillets macron’ shell, to be exact.
Graduation ’09
Last night I attended a homeschool graduation ceremony for the first time. We were invited to see a good friend of mine’s son graduate, along with two others. I had been prayerfully working […]
Sea Shell Tag #11
Text says, “And it came to pass that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan. And great multitudes followed…”
Sea Shell Tag #10
I drew the giant conch by hand with a hard graphite pencil and then used Prismacolors pencils for color.