We've reached 1 and 2 Samuel in our Cover-2-Cover bible journaling plan for 2020.

I wanted to use the anchor I created for a drawing lesson quite awhile back but I already had one in my Journal the Word bible. So I put this one in the ESV Interleaved bible instead.

Brush pen, fine line pen and colored pencils were the materials used for this page.

In order to fit 66 books in 52 weeks some of the numbered books are paired together. So I used 2 Samuel but not 1 Samuel this week.

Ddd

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 As we were leaving one of the Mexican ports I started sketching some buildings on the hills. It wasn't too long before we were out of sight of the town and I had to switch to my imagination to fill in the rest of the scene.

It was interesting to sketch strictly in pen without the safety net of laying down a pencil sketch first.

This is enlarged significantly to show detail.

Ddd

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 I couldn't envision anything but a pair of shoes on a rock to illustrate this hymn.

Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to make the shoes look like they had feet inside of them!

This was the assigned hymn for Creative Bible Journaling this week.

I used colored pencils blended with odorless mineral spirits for these snazzy shoes.

Ddd

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 These flowers were inspired by the fabric I had made my drawing tools case out of. It has a black background and medium-bright colors in yellows, pinks and aqua. The fabric has the flowers all spread out but I arranged them to make a cluster.

In fact, I created more flowers and buds that were in a similar style.

This was also worked out in pencil before inking.

Ddd

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 Before I left on vacation a number of people were posting pictures of this sort of layout that they were doing for an oline class. So when I was thinking about things to put in my sketchbook this came to mind.

I did not have access to class materials or pictures of anyone's work so I just went for it out of my head.

I did work this one out in pencil first and then inked over it, working from front to background.

I really like how this came out. I think my favorite parts are the shadows on the floor and the weed peeking around the doorframe.

Ddd

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The next page in my sketchbook started with the Hibiscus and 'grew' from there.

Working in brown pen, I just kept adding flowers, dots and squiggles until it felt 'done'.

Some of the flowers you may reognize from other pages in the sketchbook.

I later used the hibiscus on a hymn page that will come up later next month.

Ddd

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 An old drawing lesson yielded up this tangled feather and an old lettering lesson was gleaned for the text font.

When I used this feather before I did a much larger scale. And I changed out the doodle decorations to make it entirely different.

I am enjoying working on journaling straight through the bible as I first worked randomly, wherever the mood struck me and then last year worked with a plan that worked front to back interspersed with back to front till we finally met in the middle at the gospels last December.

This is easier for me to keep track of!

I switched back to my camera the first of the year but I'm not sure how I like it because it is difficult to get good focus and color rendition. I may go back to the scanner at some point.

Ddd

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Some of the work in my sketchbook was going to be transfered to my hymnal and I wanted some lettering to use with it. I didn't have any of my resources with me so I worked on making up two new alphabets.

The two of them are very similar with their high waist and low waist styles. Some of the letter forms are changed entirely but the biggest difference is that the first one is built on a 2x2 grid and the second is on a 1x2 grid.

Nothing spectacular about either of these - just utilitarian - and they served their purpose.

Ddd

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 It is not obvious where the angel fits in with the text shown but, in the full reference it is the angel who is speaking.

The angel is from an old drawing lesson and the font from an old lettering lesson.

I added more feathers to the angel than the original lesson had, just for a bit of variety from the prior use.

Ddd

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When we were in port in Honduras there were groups of children dancing on the pier. I loved the costumes and took a snapshot of one girl about 8-9 years old.

When I came to the point of drawing it I kept the twists and turns of the costume but changed it up to be a lady rather than a child.

This sketch I DID work in pencil first and then went over that with brown pen for the final product.

I'm not such a good people drawer but it was really the folds of fabric that fascinated me in this pose.

Ddd

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I have always loved this hymn but I must admit - since it was played at my sister's funeral I can't get through it without tears.

The bible book this was paired with in the group I journal with was Old Testament. But while I was contemplating the lyrics, it spoke to me that the Apostle Paul had a great take on it, as well.

I used a brush pen to write the text of his verse in Philippians over the waterfall from an old drawing lesson I taught.

Yes, It is well with my soul.

Ddd

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 I started this page in the sketchbook with a quilting motif, called a feather. Then I just started adding doodly details, one at a time.

I really like the result and the graphic feel of the black and white. (The drawing book really does have a slight gray cast to it, though)

I might try copying this and making the paper appear more white. Then, adding colors found in peacock feathers would really bring it to life.

Ddd

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 In my vacation sketchbook I used a compass to draw overlapping circles of various sized and inked them. Then I started filling them with a variety of doodles, working in pen.

I hid a few odd things in there: a few buttons, a balloon, a face.

When I was done I reinforced the outlines of the circles with a second line for more definition.

This was a lot of fun and an easy project to pick up and set aside to fit into a schedule of other activities.

Ddd

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When I taught the stone path before it went up the side of the page as though you were walking into the picture.

The page I wanted to put the path on this time already had text in that space so I made the path across the bottom margin so you can walk left to right (or vise versa).

I did the coloring with colored pencils which were then blended with Gamsol.

The same verse is referenced in the text column and the stone path drawing.

Ddd

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I created this page in my hymnal in the same way I did the page for Take Time To Be Holy, not too long ago.

That is: I made a copy of the page in the hymnal then opened a Word document and called up one of my own photos. I sized it to be exactly the same as the copied hymn - both in size and in placement on the page. Then I put the page with the hymn back in the printer and printed the photo over the song.

This was then trimmed to size and glued into the hymnal over the original page.

The photo was taken from our back deck with a view across the valley. Love the double rainbow.

I like that the rainbow is God's assurance of a promise, so that is why I selected it for this hymn.

Ddd

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Today we have a page of bible journaling in Deuteronomy.

I got these mountains from an old drawing lesson I taught a couple of years ago and paired them with a lettering lesson from the same year.

I like both just as much as I did back then, even though they are in a totally different context.

I have always tried to provide drawing lessons that can be used for a variety of verses.

Ddd

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 On my recent vacation I took along a new sketchbook (with dot grid pages) along with pencil, drawing pens and a set of colored pencils. Although I also took along other art supplies, the drawing and coloring ones were what I used throughout the trip.

The first one I did was some random doodling, in pen, around a scripture done in brush pen. I just letting the sketch grow without a plan and then used colored pencils on it.

I am trying to decide how to carry this into my Bible without redrawing the whole thing. I think it will have to go in the interleaved Bible so text is not obliterated.

We'll see. I don't want to tear it out of the sketchbook, though.

Ddd

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With the new year I started a new round of revisiting old lettering lessons. I also started working with a Happy Planner for my bible journaling and decided to re-letter new sample sheets of all the alphabets in that format before using them in my bible.

Then I decided I would just lump all of the month's pages in one post at the end of each month.

So here are the new pages I did for January:

So, do you recognize these styles? They were used in a different order and context on this blog in 2018!

Ddd

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I've come to one of those old typography samples that fits into the week's assigned bible book. I actually combined two styles in this piece, one a really funky doodle style followed by a very simple serif font with unusual coloring to set it off.

Deuteronomy 2:7 gets the honors on today's page.

Ddd

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Well, personally I will NOT be doing any gardening, but I did draw some flowers in my bible.

I created these flowers quite some time ago. I think they look so fresh and clean that I like using them over and over.

This time they ended up in Numbers 24:5-6 (excerpts).

I drew them using very fine double wavy lines and colored with three yellow tones of colored pencil and two greens. Colors were blended using Gamsol on paper stump (my new favorite technique).

I wrote script in black and then orange gel pen to tie it back to the flowers.

Ddd

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