Christmas Cards
I love making my own Christmas Cards. Starting around end of October and beginning of November coming to the Lord and asking the question, “Lord Jesus give me what to draw on the Christmas card this year?” The best part about asking God for the ideas is, that he already knows who will be receiving a card and He can tune the message to meet someone where they are at. This is a practice that I have followed for all my recent drawn cards and He always returns with not just a idea but a direction.
This year it came down to Christmas Bulbs or Christmas Globe. I went with the globe as a way of capturing a moment in time of the beings of Jesus’ life as a human. Also, to change it up used pastel to paint the card picture instead of my typical pen and ink. This was a real challenge to get the globe to look like glass.
Christmas Globe
May the Lord be Glorified.
Back to the Basic Shapes
My wife and I homeschool our daughter and I do art subject with her on the weekends. The last lesson was on shapes. Using basic shapes to block out the object to be drawn.
Drawing as a kid I did not understand stand this and limited my mind to what I can draw or paint. Laying out the shapes first opens up the world to everything. Such a basic thing, but so pivotal.
To help explain this to my 8 year old I set up a three object still life in the room. Shape easy to recognize.
We both painted the still life together and this help answer questions that arose in the process. For placement and perspective. As well as the “why doesn’t mine look like yours?”
Well lots of reasons, you are painting at a different angle to the objects than me. Your interpretation of the object in the artist give right, and time and experience practicing.
All in all was fun to paint with her. daughter’s was done in acrylics on brown paper and mine done in soft pastel on primed canvas.
Have a great day,
Taylor Davis
Soft Pastel Painting on Pillowcase
Experiment that I wanted to try after I saw an artist apply soft pastel to a bed sheet. Went small scale and settled for a pillowcase.
The fabric accepted the pastel better than I expected. Would definitely do it again. This painting was the sea with clouds that have beautiful colors on top and dark on the horizon. Trying to show that beautiful light that happens when the sun is behind the clouds and still about the horizon.
Painting done with fluorescent to give painting a hidden message in the waves.
God is aways with us and the more we take notice of Him and His work the closer we are to Him.