A lamp on a standWe're working through a sermon series on Mark at church at the moment, which I'm really enjoying. It's great to get more insight into what Jesus did and the context and reasons for that.
He said to them, ‘Do you bring in a lamp to put it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.’
‘Consider carefully what you hear,’ he continued. ‘With the measure you use, it will be measured to you – and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.’
- Mark 4:21-25
This passage appears in the middle of a series of parables, and is Jesus telling his listeners to pay attention to what they're being told, and to understand the meanings. It's been a theme as we're going through Mark that Jesus has to explain things to His disciples because they don't understand what He means.
We don't have the luxury of grabbing Jesus in person and sitting Him down to explain things to us, but we can study the Bible, read what He told other people, and spend time in prayer to get to know what He really means more. One of the things I love about Bible art journalling is that I get to spend more time sitting and reading and thinking about passages than I would if I was just reading a passage and moving on to other things. I love to find out the stories behind the stories - the context and setting for certain parables, the history of what was happening around Jesus and the disciples at the time, and how everything fits in with the rest of the Bible.
I got my inspiration from a series of templates Monica Bauer produced. I loved the stained glass effect and thought I'd give it a go. I'm not 100% satisfied with the art, but I'm happy with the overall message. The crux of the passage, to me, was 'let your light shine' - your light, in this case, being God's glory reflected through us. I know that's not the precise meaning of the passage, but it's what I got out of it. I used the image of a lamp on a tall stand, where it could be seen, and added the text above.
On a side note, looking back over my hand lettering over the last year, I'm very pleased with how much it's improved with practice!
I used a combination of Pitt Artist Pens and watercolour pencils to colour the image. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed with the markers on this image. I'm used to getting shadowing with the pens, but find it doesn't shadow so much if I use the pens over the watercolour. However... I was quite surprised to see that the yellow pen I used for the writing shadowed really badly. I managed to cover it, but it was unexpected.
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