His-Kingdom-Come Featured Artist: I AM A CHILD OF GOD. Videos and Printable.

Hello!

It's been awhile!  The long winter is over here in Alaska and I've been enjoying warmth and sunshine, spending time on the computer just has to wait!

But I have a treat for you today!  I am honored to be one of the featured artist for His-Kingdom-Come!  This is a wonderful group that has loads of bible art journaling, devotionals and other projects.  I am one of the many who have and are contributing to the year-long Take Me Deeper group (scroll down for the featured bible art journaling and bonus project).

Here is a description of the DNA:Take me Deeper group at His Kingdom Come (even more HKC info at the end of the blog!!)

Take Me Deeper™ is a free weekly journey at His Kingdom Come beginning Friday, January 2 2015.   Take Me Deeper™ will be a weekly devotional and verse that will prompt us to spending time in His word. It is about each of us encouraging, sharing and studying the word.

 Each week you will get the opportunity to translate bible study into art- mixed media, a journal, a photograph, or a digital page, poem, music. Every Friday HKC will post a verse, devotional, worship video and examples of how we interpreted the bible study in our art.  We pray that these 52 weeks will change how you approach, engage and apply God’s word in your life and art. At the end of the year regardless of how many weeks your participated, you will have created a legacy of the faith walk. This legacy will show you how God has moved in your life!

Don't forget to join the FACEBOOK group we have for TMD (we also discuss Logos365 in that Facebook group as well).

The theme for today's I AM statement is: I AM A Child Of God.

The verses I have chosen for this is John 1:12-13
   "But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man, but of God." (ESV)

How wonderful is that?  We often know that we are "born-again" but do we really understand that God Himself has declared that we are now HIS children, born of Him, when we accept Christ?

DNA is often used to prove who our parents are.  Since we are now God's very own children, born of Him, I like to image that we could see Christ's DNA grafted into ours, if we were able to view it through a spiritual microscope.  The Jesus Fish fits perfectly into our existing DNA!  I hope you enjoy watching me art journal this in my Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling bible.

Supplies used:

*These are the brands I have used in this video but please use whatever supplies you have!

TriArt Clear Gesso (available on Amazon)

Copic Multiliner SP Pen (available at Jetpens.come)

Faber Castell Polychromos colored pencils

Schmincke watercolor paints

I have also created a bonus project!  Since God has declared we are His very own children, I thought it would be fun to make a birth certificate which God has declared us as His child!  Click on the photo to download the certificate or make one with your own wording.   It would be fun to include the day you were saved, the day you became a child of God, if you know the date.  (I don't know the date when I truly gave my life to Christ, so no date on mine).

Supplies used:

Laser printer ( I have an inexpensive Canon printer, approximately $60)

**You can also use a copier but not inkjet!  It must be a copy made with toner for the foil to stick

iCraft Deco Foil

tan colored copy paper

Copic Multiliner Sp pen

Double-sided tape

I printed my certificate at 5x7.   It is important to know that the foils only work with LASER OR COPIER prints.  It does NOT work with inkjet printing.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD FROM DROPBOX
 OR RIGHT CLICK ON IMAGE AND SAVE.

I hope you have enjoyed these videos!  God bless!

 Come and join the faithart journey at His Kingdom Come! FREE weekly devotions, faithart inspirations, technique videos, faithart classes- combining techniques and bible study! Lots of faithart products– stencils, stamps, thermofax screens, canvas, and coloring books!  If you were part of Take me deeper in 2015, please sign up for the 2016 Take me Deeper, so that you have access to the devotions, techniques and discussions! Free planner/journal pages are found here. Take Me Deeper will be continuing in 2016 with the “I am statements” of Jesus and our Spiritual DNA. Looking for your “word” for 2016?  His Kingdom Come has prepared an EBook for free containing the idea of living one word, worksheets and all the prompts for 2016! Get it for free here Logos365  www.his-kingdom-come.com

 

New Video Tutorial! PEN STROKES! Part Four of "How to Draw Stylized Flowers"

Hi everyone!!

Spring is turning into summer here in Alaska.  We are in full 24 hour daylight mode, which means I don't sleep like I do in the winter.  Who can sleep when the sun is shining all night long??  Sleep can wait until winter. :)

We have been having a LOT of windy weather.  I sure would like it to just be a gentle breeze to just stop.  I live between two glaciers and we are surrounded by mountains and those winds are COLD.  Plus, they stir up glacier dust, which is super fine dust made by glaciers grinding rocks to dust as the ice flows and recedes.  It coats everything and isn't good for the lungs.

My super husband is sick today, a very unusual event.  He has spent the day on the couch, poor guy. I am praying and am sure he will be fine soon.

Now, on to the video!  I have made a short video that shows the different pen strokes that I use in many of my pen and ink drawings.  I really encourage you to get to know your supplies and learn everything they can do.  I have personalized this one a bit.  You will soon see that I am a pen nerd..and maybe a little dorky..or a lot dorky...and I'm OK with that.

Many people are afraid of pens because they aren't erasable and if a mistake is made, everything is ruined, right?

Wrong!

Once you learn different techniques for using pens, you can start off light and increase the darks as needed.  Starting off light gives lots of chances to camouflage or incorporate mistakes so they don't show and may even turn into "happy mistakes" as  the late oil paint artist Bob Ross used to say.

I have scanned off this pen stroke reference and hope you find it helpful.  Click on the photo to enlarge it.

I will be making more videos saved on the Psalm illustration, which I continue to add on to.  I will be showing how to do flowering vines and ribbons.  I have been asked to show how to draw the squirrel but that is a bit advanced so these current videos are good practice to lead up to the squirrel or maybe a bunny.

I am continuing to learn how to make better videos and am looking forward to getting a solid set up soon.

I pray blessings on you all!

New Video Tutorial! BUMBLEBEES!!

Video Tutorial!

HOW TO DRAW EASY STYLIZED BUMBLEBEES!

This is the third video in the series "How to Dray Easy Stylized Flowers"

This is an ongoing tutorial series based on select verses from Psalm 97-99 pen and ink drawing in my Crossway ESV Single Column Journaling Bible.  

These beautiful, easy bumblebees are very fun once you learn how to draw them and are so easy, they don't take a lot of thought or effort, just like doodling!  

PLEASE SHARE PHOTOS OF YOUR FLOWERS, I LOVE SEEING THEM AND MAY FEATURE THEM HERE AND ON MY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA! 

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(To see all video tutorials in one place, select "Video Tutorials" from the menu above)