Glimpses of Jesus 15

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 post is about Othniel, the judge in Judges 3:9-11

In the Bible Deborah, also a Judge, is described as sitting under a palm tree and the palm tree came to represent righteousness and justice.  As a consequence I used the image of a palm tree for my journal page.

I add the text to my photograph using Publisher.

Do have a look back through the posts on the Glimpses of Jesus blog where you will find links to other people's art and poetry.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Hartlebury Common to Kidderminster

Since 2012 Roger & I have been taking long walks alongside the canals of the Midlands.  This walk involved taking the train to Kidderminster and a bus to Hartlebury Common.

The thing I like about canal walks is that they are mostly on the flat and in my mind a Common was also flat.  Wrong!  There was a steepish walk from the bus stop to the top of the Common but the views were worth it.

After walking across Hartlebury Common we walked down on to a road where we found the footpath to take us to the river.  Having just come down a hill I was delighted (not) to have to walk up this flight of steps!

And up the hill

Yet again spectactular view.

And then back down these steps.

We walked to where the canal met the river Severn at this lock

And then walked alongside the canal to Stourport.

We stopped for a drink at a pub next to this house.  Have a look at the doors and windows. They seem to be more vertical in the photo than they actually were!

We walked through Stourport

We stopped for lunch at a pub next to the canal

After lunch we walked alongside the canal back to Kidderminster

This was the site of a lock that lifted boats from the river to the canal.

Here you can see where the canal was cut through the red sandstone.

The walk ended up being 9.77 miles by the time we got back to the station to catch the train home.  I was somewhat exhausted!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

April Sketchbook Challenge

You may remember that in February I took part in a Sketchbook challenge.  The group were challenged again for April.

Steph Redfern kindly gave me this sketchbook.

It's made up of lots of different types and sizes of paper.

I decided I would only use my Inktense pencils in it.

The theme for this month is Renewal and I decided to use the NEW of reNEWal and make my own colouring book using stencils that are new to me.   I also decided that I would investigate colour theory in the colouring.

Day 1
For this page I used all the yellow and orange Inktense pencils and parts of four different stencils.

Day 2
I used the same crayons and two fo the stencils from day 1.

I added water to the colours and it makes quite a difference.

Day 3

This page has reds and oranges and only one stencil.

I used a wet brush on the Inktense pencils and covere the pencil lines with a red pen.

I am using the colours in the order that Inktense have them rather than the colour wheel.  However they are still analogous colours on the colour wheel.  Later in the month I will use the colour wheel to order the colours I'm using.

Day 4
I used only 7 Inktense pencils on this one with only one stencil.  Some of the pencils I own are very close in colour to each other.  These are shades of red moving into the purples.  And behind you can part of the day 2 page.

I'll give you an update on the sktechbook later in the month.

For now, thanks for stopping by.
Bernice