Strength and Weakness

It's been too long since I did some Bible journaling, but I can see why because it's taken 3 days to get as far as posting this - even though it's a fairly simple page.  I just plain have less time to do this than I did during the height of covid!  Protecting the page with gesso and doing the illustration took the first day.  The words/lettering took the second day (the pen is less likely to get clogged by the gesso if it has dried for at least a day).  Then, it took me a third day to get around to posting it.  To read about what this passage & the illustration mean to me, check out my other blog here.  Below you will read about the steps I took to make this page.

1) As I mentioned above, the first thing I did was to apply 3 thin coats of thin gesso to protect the page from bleed through.

2) Next, I stamped the hummingbird using a Stampendous stamp from the sets of stamps (and matching dies) called Hummingbird.

3) Then I colored in the hummingbird using Inktense pencils & a water brush, and used the same to highlight the verses to which I referred.  Notice that the eye turned out dark enough that you can't see the letters behind it.  Mistakes like this happen!  I fixed it by putting the hard to read word in parenthesis beside the hummingbird.

4) After leaving the page to dry for a day, I came back to do the words.  Most of them are just printed with a Small sized Pitt Pen, but some were made like "bubble" letters so I could fill them in with color.  To do that, I used my Scroll and Brush markers.