Glimpses of Jesus 40

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 The Servant and sin in Isaiah 52:13-53:12.

You may remember my page from last week which had by the side of it this page.

Which I then scraped the left over green paint onto.

I wanted to keep the chaotic pattern behind the green paint and decided I would stencil over it with a dark ink.  I used a Stazon ink which actually coloured the stencil more than the page.

However it made enough of an impression to add to the darkness and the chaos to represent sin.

I stamped a border around the edge of the page.  It's actually supposed to be a tinsel stamp but it reminds me of the crown of thorns.

I printed out a couple of the verses from the passage and stuck them on the page.  I highlighted some of the circles with a red pen.

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

Second Helpings

Although last Saturday I shared my final post for the Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt I thought I would share some other photos I took that repeated some of those on the list.

#2 on the list was a footprint or pawprint and I found all of these

 #14 was a buffet and this was better picture than the one I used in my June post.

But the best photo was of #12 - a window.

Wouldn't you love to live in a house with this window?

And the view from this window?   This estuary.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Glimpses of Jesus 39

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 continuing the series on the Servant.

To be honest as I read today's passage I was thinking maybe I should have used last week's response for this week.  Only then my attention was drawn to ‘For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of parched ground’ Isaiah 52:2 and the contrast between a tender shoot and the violent list that follows.

The next double pages in my journal already had some paint on.  Painted string was placed between the two pages and the pages pressed together.

I painted a thin layer of gesso on the page I was planning to use, leaving the what looks like chaotic scribble showing through.  I liked the idea of the chaos behind the image that I was about to put on.

With a pale green acrylic paint I printed a grass seedhead onto the page using a Thermofax screen.

I had squeezed out too much paint so I spread that over the next page.

I put a wash of watercolour over the page when the acrylic was dry.  I wanted to make it look like parched earth so while the watercolour paint was wet I sprinkled sea salt over it and left it to dry.

The finished result didn't look particularly parched.

I stamped lightly over the page with brown ink and a stamp.  I printed out the words from the passage on Kraft paper, cut them up and stuck them on my page.

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