Glimpses of Jesus 4

Glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament is a year long bible study written by Simon Clay of Jubilee Church Solihull.   You can join in at any time.

This week's study is looking at Melchizedek who is described as the king of peace and righteousness in Genesis 14:17-24.

I decided to make a collage in my journal this week - but I didn't take any photos whilst I was making it.

I have some beautiful paper napkins that have wine bottles and glasses of red wine on so I cut those out and peeled off the top layer and glued those to the page.  I found a magazine photo of some bread - of course none of the elements are in proportion to one another.

I found a chipboard crown which I painted with gold acrylic paint and glued to the page.   The page had previously had gesso painted on it and I had smeared the whole page with Gel medium when I glued everything down.  I used watercolour paint to paint the background and then wrote the words.

Thank you for stopping by.
Bernice

M.I.A. again!

I haven't blogged for several days.  Instead I've been really busy creating things I can blog about, keeping up to date with online classes and doing a mega tidy of the dining room that is my craft space.

So here are the before and after photos of the tidy up.

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After

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Of course, the issue will be whether I can keep it like this!

More about the class work later in the week.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Glimpses of Jesus 3

Glimpses of Jesus in the Old Testament is a year long bible study written by Simon Clay of Jubilee Church Solihull.   You can join in at any time.

Today's study is about Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3.  The part that stood out to me and inspired my journal page was later in the story in Genesis 15:5
He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars - if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 

I thought of the numerous stars in the sky - too many to count - and that one special star that led to the stable when Jesus was born.  And that led to this page.

I put a thin coat of gesso on the page and then used a snowflake stencil for the large star and a star stencil for the other stars.  I used Transparent Texture Paste through the stencil.

I put a thin layer of acrylic paint over the page and you can see the texture of the kitchen paper where I dabbed it off.   I wiped someo f the paint off the stars.

I put another coat of acrylic paint over the page.

I used some white acrylic paint through the stencil to make the large star show up.  It's not as neat as I would have liked it to have been.  The paste had spread under the stencil.  Then I wrote around the edge of the page.

You can join in with the Bible study without doing a creative response.  I do hope you will join me.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice