Illustration Friday-Maria-Underwater

My daughter drew this picture during her homeschool art class, and then just happened to check Illustration Friday and see that the word was Underwater. She was excited that it worked so perfectly, and I was excited because she hasn't wanted to post anything on here for a while, even though she never stopped drawing. I always try to encourage her to keep drawing because that's how you get better, but I'm not going to force her to post. I do that as she desires. 

Scuba Diving is Fun

Maria-8-Pen & Marker

"I have this type of pet theory that all kids draw,

 artists just keep drawing."

- Nathanael Lark

God Bless You,

Maria

1Timothy 4:12 NIV

"Don’t let anyone look down on you 

because you are young, but set an 

example for the believers in speech, 

in conduct, in love, in faith 

and in purity."

Hair Barrettes

Walked in on my oldest two daughters making hair barrettes in their room. Mom had given them some barrettes and they were drawing pictures, cutting them out and gluing them onto the barrette. I love it when they get creative!

Keep your head up and keep smiling!

Luke 12:6-7 ESV

"Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And 

not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, 

even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; 

you are of more value than many sparrows."

To Do List

Apparently, my "To Do List" got a little longer the other day. My oldest girls, Maria and Elissa, decided that there was something I needed to do for them. Elissa drew the cat and Maria wrote the message. It's not going to happen, but it's cute nonetheless.

Here's to you and your pets! Biblically, if they asked for a fish, 

then they would have been good to go. This isn't a fish. This here is 

a fish eater and we have two fish that are enjoying themselves.

May all of your noncat dreams come true.

Blessings!

Matthew 7:9-11

"Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, 

will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your 

children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give 

good things to those who ask him!"

Back in Business

It's been quite a while since the last upload of pics on here. My kids haven't taken a break, but my means of internet availability were limited since someone at my work decided to do something that made us all loss the internet, and internet time is few and far between with 5 kids running around. That reminds me that I need to update the picture for the blog soon since our newest edition, Judah, came around in September.

Elissa-5-Marker-Wink

Elissa-5-Marker-Cat

(She wants to send this off to Highlights)

Maria-7-Crayon-Dalmation

(She wants to send this off to Highlights)

Maria-7-Marker-4th of July

Maria-7-Marker-Hello Kitty Party

Maria-7-Marker-Hello Kitty Study

Maria-7-Marker-Parents and Me

Trying to work on my girls getting used to drawing on the Wacom Tablet. Maria takes to it with more courage than I do. Elissa hates it. Jessa and Noah can't really use it now and Judah will just eat the pen and smack the tablet while laughing the whole time.

Thanks for stopping by!

May Jesus Christ Bless You All!!!

Deuteronomy 28:1-3 ESV

"And if you faithfully obey the voice of the Lord your God, 

being careful to do all his commandments that I command 

you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all 

the nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall 

come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice 

of the Lord your God. Blessed shall you be in the city, 

and blessed shall you be in the field."

Illustration Friday-Maria-Scattered

Hello World! I was going through my kids old drawings that I have meant to scan and put on here and I found this cute/quick sketch Maria did of a bunch of squirrels running around a tree. I went onto Illustration Friday and saw that the word was "Scattered" and thought that this would work really well.

Scattered Squirrels

Maria-6-Pen

 

"But you just said they're mine."

God Bless You,

Maria

Jeremiah 31:10 ESV

“Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and 

declare it inthe coastlands far away; say, 

‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and 

will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’"

Illustration Friday-Maria-Hibernate

It's funny how art happens. I tell my daughter the word for this week and she kind of shrugs it off. Then out of nowhere she hands me a drawing that I don't think lives up to her potential. I scan it, and open it in Photoshop to darken it a bit so it stands out, and I think it looks amazing now because it now has a textured look in the background (I'm known to like rough pencil sketches more than finished projects). It's weird how you can change your mind about something when you look at it in a different light.

Hibernate

Maria-6-Colored Pencil

I really like how she signed her name inside of that rock. Fun!

May God Bless You,

Dad

Psalm 4:8

"I will both lie down in peace, and sleep;

For You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety."

Illustration Friday-Maria-Imperfect

Welcome back!!! Maria threw down for this one :) As I've said before, she loves dogs, so she based her drawing around one again.

Maria-6-Colored Pencil

Imperfect

It's a three-legged dog, but check out that smile :)

He knows he's not like the rest of his friends, and while that may

not make him perfect, he doesn't really seem to let it get to him.

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless You!!!

Maria

Romans 10: 9-10

"Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord 

and believe inyour heart that God raised him from the dead, you 

will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified,

and with the mouth one confesses and is saved."

Illustration Friday-Maria-Gesture

Maria-6-Digital

Gesture

 

Welcome to our Art Blog. Maria was really happy with her drawing for Illustration Friday's word, gesture. She loves dogs and was happy to incorporate one into her piece. She named him Digger, and Digger is gesturing to the bird that he will bite it if it comes any closer. Check out them teeth!!!

Here is a picture of her with her huge stuffed dog. She uses her as a pillow.

God Bless You All,

Love Maria :)

Proverbs 12:10 NIV

 

"A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, 

but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel."

Illustration Friday-Maria-Stay

Maria-6-Digital

Stay

This was a bit of a stickler for Maria to come up with an idea for this weeks word. She knew what it meant, but her mind just couldn't put a visual to it. I usually don't like to help them come up with an idea so they can learn to draw from their own creativity, but she was stumped. I finally gave in and reminded her of how she had to stay in a room for most of the day when we went together on a Missions Trip to Bad Berneck, Germany for 3 weeks ago to help with some construction. She wasn't allowed in the construction area so she had to keep herself busy with drawing, and coloring, and taking pictures.

 

 She was well rewarded for her patience :)

 And it really wasn't that uncomfortable of a room ;)

 All and all, we had a blast helping a local church with renovations (www.eurochrist.com), Maria got to learn patience, watch a lot of cartoons, visit some really cool places, and enjoy a 10 day Daddy/Daughter date.

Score!!!

God Bless You,

Maria

Psalm 37:9

"For the evildoers shall be cut off,
   but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land."

Absolute Laziness!!!

My children have been lazy for the past couple of weeks and haven't been churning out anything. With that being said, I do have a ton of older pictures to upload, but I have been to lazy to scan them and post them as well. We have achieved absolute laziness!!!

We haven't really had much time to encourage them to draw anything new with the other tasks life brings our way (babysitting for friends, birthday parties, math, reading, etc.). We have been spending a lot of time recently getting ready for Maria and I's mission trip to Germany. I hope she takes the time to be inspired while we are there. Until then, I would like to continue to post here with something and all I have on my computer at work is a piece I did a while ago that includes Maria when she was 2 (her modeling is artistic, right?) Anyways...

Maria-6-Model

"Princess Butterfly and 

the Traveling Turtle"

Wanted to make it look like it was found in the bottom of a circus trunk 

(whatever that means). Needs more destruction in my opinion. 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out her cuteness!!!

God Bless

Mark 16:15

"And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

Happy Resurrection Day!!!

Here's a little Drawing Maria did her first time experimenting with Adobe Illustrator. She's used Photoshop for a while now and seemed to take to it pretty well.

Easter Bunny

Maria-5-Digital

She's going to get around to coloring it soon, but we are too busy having a fun time on this beautiful Resurrection Day. Christ is Risen Indeed!!!

1 Corinthians 15:20 NIV

 "But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, 

the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep."

Maria - Trip to the Pet Store

For a fun, free zoo like experience, take your little ones to the Pet Store. We did, and Maria drew a picture to prove it :)

The Pet Store

Maria-5-Pen

She's feeding the fish!

God Bless!

Love, Maria

Mark 1:17 NIV

"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men."

Illustration Friday - Maria - Cultivate

I really didn't think my older girls were going to do anything for this weeks Illustration Friday, and then I came home to be pleasantly surprised. I love it when my girls pour over a drawing all by themselves and give me something that they are proud of.

Cultivate

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

Here's a link to her sister's drawing. 

Again, I couldn't be prouder of both of them this week and really pray that everyone learns the lesson I learned a while ago. Some times you have to stand back to make room for their imagination!

God Bless You,

Maria

Gen 2:8 KJV

"And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; 

and there he put the man whom he had formed."

Maria - A Bird and A Kitty

Sometimes I'm going to dedicate posts to one of my kids. Maria is the spotlight for today. She is the reason I even started an art blog (it was just for her and then turned into one for all of them). She produces the most work and will probably take up a good deal of space here because of it. She is the oldest, and has the most patience in completing her pictures, so that's another reason you'll see a lot of her work on here. Without further ado:

I See A Bird

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

My guess is that she saw a bird one day and decided to memorialize it. 

Poor Sun. She sees that thing everyday and didn't say anything about it :)

Kitty

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

This the one of the first pictures she ever did that really showed her 

talent. I told her we could take the kitty and turn it into a movie one day.

Has that happened? No, terrible dad that I am, but I did do this:

It's not what I promised but it's something I did to help make the process of

animating her work a little easier. I'm going to get her to draw all the parts needed

and then help her animate it one day with Photoshop. I'm really looking forward to this.

Thanks for stopping by.

Blessings!

Psalm 103:13 ESV

"As a father shows compassion to his children, 

so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear Him."

Illustration Friday - Maria - Stir

Maria was in a hurry to do this one. We went through all the things that stir could mean and she liked her mom's idea of a little girl beginning to stir out of bed. I was hoping she would do stir crazy, but alas, It was not to be. Here it is.

Beginning to Stir

Maria-5-Colored Pencil

 

She's stretching so that's why her neck is long. Daddy thinks she woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Mommy thinks Daddy should say nicer things but Daddy thinks that's pretty nice ;)

God Bless You!

Ephesians 5:14 God's Word Translation

"Because light makes everything easy to see. That's why it says: 

"Wake up, sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.""

Picture on Our Pillow

Our kids wake up before us usually, and we leave some paper and crayons or colored pencils out for them to draw. We were pleasantly surprised to find this picture on our pillow.

 

I had a roommate a couple years back whose dog would leave presents on my pillow while I was away. Those didn't make me smile. This did :) It's a lady with a pretty hat and a cat with flowers on it's head going to the bank. I asked her where she got the idea to draw this and she said in between bites of her breakfast, "I just got the idea, and then I just drawed it." That didn't answer my question, but what did I expect. She was eating. 

Psalm 112:5 ESV
 

"It is well with the man who deals generously 

and ends, who conducts his affairs with justice."

CHILDREN HOME SCHOOLED PLAY-DOH TURTLES!!!

The girls learned all about turtles last week for school and Mommy had them make little turtles out of play-doh. She liked them so much that she hot glued them together :) I thought they were cute as well, and the girls were so proud of them that we thought that they needed a home on the interwebs.

The Gang

Maria's is on the left, Jessa's is in the middle and Elissa's is on the right.

Here's some single shots!

Maria made a 

Loggerhead Sea Turtle

 

 

 Jessa made a

Box Turtle

 

 Elissa Made a 

Painted Turtle

Illustration Friday - Maria - Warning

Welcome back to our art blog! Today Maria has a special surprise for her Illustration Friday post. Not only did she do a picture, but we recorded what she did and made a time lapse of it so you can see how she does it.

The Tornado Warning

Maria-5-Digital

It's a police officer warning another car that there is a tornado. She got the idea when she saw that her sister was drawing a Police car. Pretty exciting stuff if you ask me :)

Here is the time lapse for it:

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless!

Maria

Romans 13:3-4

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.

Illustration Friday - Maria - Swarm

Hello everybody. This is my picture for Illustration Friday. I know what a swarm is because I just read about it in the Little House on the Prairie book called On the Banks of Plum Creek. where the grasshoppers come and swarm where they live. Here is my picture. 

The Bugs and the Tea Party

Maria-5-Digital

Thank you for visiting! God Bless You!

Psalm 105:31 ESV

"He spoke, and there came swarms 

of flies, and gnats throughout their country."

Illustration Friday - Maria - Layers

Ah, another beautiful day outside. Check out my picture for Illustration Friday's word Layers, and then go play. That's what I'm doing :)

Wedding Cake

Maria-5-Pencil/Digital Color

 

Great Day!!!

Psalms 71:17 NIV

"Since my youth, O God, you have taught me,
and to this day I declare your marvelous deeds."