Painting a Psalm In the last 2 blog posts we have looked at a number of techniques. In Week 2 Painting A Patchwork we thought about how to combine words, colour and patterns and in Week 3 From Scripture to A Picture we looked at how to generate ideas and images from a single Bible[…]Read More

From Scripture to a Picture The idea of this post is to work on generating ideas and images from a single Bible verse. This can sometimes be a very straightforward process as there are lots of Bible verses which bring to mind an obvious image. For example, the verse, “Unless the Lord builds the house[…]Read More

Planning A Prayer Tree The first creative task I am going to share with you is to create a prayer tree. This could be with paints, pens or pencils or even done as a collage. The overall idea is to create the shape of a tree, including within it the names of the people or[…]Read More

The Virtual Gallery Thank you to all of you who have sent in the pictures you have produced which have been inspired by Hannah’s “Pick Up a Pencil” blog series. We have put together a “Virtual Gallery” of the submissions as a video. We really hope you find it as encouraging and inspiring to watch[…]Read More

Painting a Patchwork In this post we are going to be looking at painting a patchwork. The idea behind this task is to help you experiment with 3 things: Colour Words Patterns We are going to take a plain piece of paper and sketch curved lines across it to create a “grid” of curved lines[…]Read More

Introduction Hi, I’m Hannah. I have called this blog series ‘Pick up a pencil’ as that is effectively what I hope you will feel inspired to do as you follow this blog. I felt prompted to do this series directly as a result of the current crisis we find ourselves in. I’m going to come[…]Read More