Week 3 Art Journal...

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because I had to go to Las Cruces for jury duty, I did not have access to all my art supplies.  I did take a few, and did what I could with those.  Most of my art journaling involved a lot of drawing of faces.  It was easy to take a pad, pencil, pens, and watercolor crayons.  I found a wonderful video on YouTube on how to draw a face using circles.  See it here: http://youtu.be/1ErvNVnBJE0.  Also, since I was away from home, I could not exactly follow the lessons by Erin Leigh regarding the art journal prompts.  http://artbyerinleigh.blogspot.com/2012/09/31-days-of-scripture-art-journaling-day.html.  Here is this week's art journal pages:

I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Psalm 139:14

For to me to Live is Christ, to die is Gain.  Philippians 1:21

You shall be Holy for I the Lord your God, am Holy. Leviticus 19: 2

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, ' This is the way, walk in it'  whenever you turn to the right or to the left.  Isaiah 30:21

Paraphrased:  Whatever is true, honorable, right, pure, lovely, let your mind dwell on these things.  Philippians 4:8

Art Journaling...

"Study to show yourself approved." 2 Timothy 2:15

In my blog post of February 18, "A Reminder to me", I spoke about getting into God's word everyday, so that the consuming fire God put in me would not go out.  It was not long after that when I came upon a website by Erin Leigh, http://artbyerinleigh.blogspot.com/2012/09/31-days-of-scripture-art-journaling-day.html, with an exercise called 31 days of scripture.  Talk about an answer to prayer right away!  In a nutshell, Erin takes you through Art Journaling scripture so it will stay in your heart longer than a few minutes. I love her description of what happens when your art journal scripture.

"Because I believe that there is something inherently spiritual about creating.

not just art, but creating anything.

I am connected to my creator when I create.

When I use the gifts that I've been entrusted with."

I picked scriptures from my daily Bible reading rather than choosing my old standard favorites.  Each day I ask the Lord to speak to me through His word.  When a particular passage jumps out at me, I know that is my word for today.  Here are my first four days of "31 days of scriptures."

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Once I start a page, it is hard to stop the doodling, but I know I must, or I will never get anything done.
I am, also, starting a new project for my yearly family albums.  Each month, I will do a "summary" calendar with that month's events highlighted for each day.  I must say, this project was much more involved than I anticipated.  It mostly had to do with the setting up of my background, and putting all those tiny squares in where the pictures or words would go.  It was well worth the time and effort.  This is how I will introduce each new month in my Family Yearbook Album.  I just love it!

February 2013