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Draw through the Bible with black light chalk artist, Jim Pence. This video series is designed for homeschoolers who want to have fun learning art and the Bible. And, in keeping with Jim’s black light chalk artistry, each of these projects incorporate black light chalk or paint.
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In Part 2 of the Ring of Tulips project, Jim shows how to add depth and variety to the tulip image created last week. He also demonstrates the value of “happy accidents,” as something unexpected happens with the airbrush–and ends up part of the final picture.
Continue to master the use of the selection, symmetry, and airbrush tools. You also learn how to crop an image and explore the brush library in this lesson.
To create this project, I used Autodesk Sketchbook (sketchbook.com) with a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet.
You can download Sketchbook free at: www.sketchbook.com
You can get a graphics tablet and pressure-sensitive stylus as low as $27 HERE
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0:00 – 2:27 Change Background Color.
2:27 – 10:40 Add Texture and Interest to the Background.
10:41 – 16:09 Use the Airbrush Tool to Color the Petals.
16:10 – End Use the Airbrush, Select, and Symmetry Tools to Color the Leaves & Stems
Music courtesy of BenSound: http://bensound.com
I’ve had several novels published, and one of my favorite parts of fiction writing was introducing plot twists.
Well, plot twists aren’t only for fiction writers. In fact, one of the all time great plot twists can be found in, of all places, the book of Proverbs. The writer leads you down one path (talking about fools) for 11 verses, then BOOM, switches directions and makes a 90-degree shift and hits us all where we live.
The passage is Proverbs 26:1-12 and it begins like this:
Like snow in summer or rain in harvest,
honor is not fitting for a fool (Prov. 26:1 NIV).
Then, for the next 10 verses, the writer characterizes fools, and basically paints a pretty hopeless picture of them. In fact, reading the passage could almost make you look down on these hapless, totally unreliable people that the writer of proverbs describes merely as fools.
Ah, but the writer of Proverbs has something else in mind here. He does not intend to make a point about fools as much as he does about pride.
In verse 12, he writes:
Do you see a person wise in their own eyes?
There is more hope for a fool than for them.
BOOM!
That is what might be called a “gotcha” moment. This whole time we’ve been nodding our heads and agreeing how hopeless fools can be. Then he looks at us and says, “Oh, by the way, do you know someone who sees himself as wise? There is more hope for a fool than for that person.
Ouch!
The point of those 12 verses isn’t the hopelessness of fools; it’s the blindness of pride. The truly hopeless person is one who is wise in his own eyes, for he sees no need to change.
May God help us to set aside pride and walk in humility to all around us, and especially toward God.
Learn how to create a stencil effect by drawing a dazzling ring of tulips.
Develop digital drawing skills by drawing a circle of tulips (stylized) and laying in the base colors.
Learn to work with symmetry, layers, autofill, reference photos.
To create this project, I used Autodesk Sketchbook (sketchbook.com) with a Wacom Intuos Pro graphics tablet.
You can download Sketchbook free at: www.sketchbook.com
You can get a graphics tablet and pressure-sensitive stylus as low as $27 HERE
Tulip photos courtesy of:
Stux – Pixabay.com:
https://pixabay.com/photos/tulip-lily-spring-nature-flowers-65789/
Annie Spratt – Unsplash.com
https://unsplash.com/photos/QJ_NKUci2L8
https://unsplash.com/photos/ofzbB_ntUnE
Music courtesy of:
BenSound
http://bensound.com
Related Video Lessons:
0:00-5:00 Planning the Drawing (Reference Photos)
5:00-9:40 Drawing the Ring of Tulips (Symmetry Tool)
9:40-14:15 Coloring the Tulips (Layers, Select Tool, Flood Fill)
14:15-18:05 Coloring the Stems & Leaves (Layers, Select Tool, Flood Fill)
In recent months (years, actually), I’ve found myself getting discouraged when I watch the news. Sometimes I get downright angry.
Road rage, senseless killings, racism, terrorism, hate-filled people. There’s so much evil in our world, and it’s getting worse.
Some might say it’s just better not to watch the news. Maybe that’s true. But it’s impossible to exist in our high-tech, always connected world without hearing about all the evil around us. How should we respond?
Sadly, I often find myself getting angry and discouraged.
Last week I was listening to a recording of the psalms, and I heard something that impacted me deeply. I’ve heard/read this psalm hundreds, if not thousands, of times. But last week, the words of psalm 37 caught my heart in a new way.
I don’t have the space to go into the whole psalm here, but three times the psalmist tells us: “Do not fret because of evildoers.” In verse 8, he pointedly says, “Do not fret–it leads only to evil.”
When I read that, I realized how much I’d been fretting over evildoers and their success in this world. I also understood that such fretting only hurts me (“It leads only to evil.”)
What’s the alternative?
The psalmist gives four appropriate responses:
1. Trust in the Lord (v. 3)
2. Delight in the Lord (v. 4)
3. Commit your way to the Lord (v. 5)
4. Be still before the Lord (v. 7)
5. Refrain from anger and turn from wrath (v. 8)
Rather than responding in anger to the world around me, I should commit my way to the Lord and calmly trust in him.
In this pastel painting workshop from See the Light, artist Jim Pence demonstrates how to draw the fence posts and sparrow in his pastel painting, “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”
The foundational skill of art is drawing.
Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, brush, or a piece of chalk, it’s all about drawing.
In your free lessons, you’ll learn…
…The basics of what makes a drawing
…What you need to have in your drawing “toolkit”
…The most essential skill of drawing
…How to synchronize your hand and your eyes
…The basics of composition
In this workshop from See the Light, artist Jim Pence demonstrates how to draw the foreground in his pastel painting, “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”
You’ll need some yellow pastels to do this part of the drawing.
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In this pastel painting workshop from See the Light artist Jim Pence demonstrates how to draw distant trees in his pastel painting, “His Eye is on the Sparrow.”
All you need are some soft (chalk) pastels and paper with “tooth” (pastel paper or construction paper).
The foundational skill of art is drawing.
Whether you’re using a pencil, pen, brush, or a piece of chalk, it’s all about drawing.
In your free lessons, you’ll learn…
…The basics of what makes a drawing
…What you need to have in your drawing “toolkit”
…The most essential skill of drawing
…How to synchronize your hand and your eyes
…The basics of composition
