The Zoe Project - Artist Statement

Yay I started! My Artist statement on how God sees me!

I sat and found loads of Bible verses that give information on how God sees us and feels about us; to sum those up in one sentence: God truly loves and cares for you.

Then I put this piece together. I had the lady (downloaded from Old Design Shop) on my desktop and she seemed to be crying out to be used as a representation of me! Archetypal tea-drinking English lady, LOL! She was B&W so I removed the white and painted in the colours I wanted!

The stash is all from Altered Amanda's Studio and can be found HERE!

One of the Bible quotes mentioned us shining like stars in the sky, so this background seemed perfect! Then I used a couple of elements - saying the Time has Come and Time for a Change. I'm feeling my Faith is definitely growing and changing...evolving if you like as I gain in understanding and personal knowledge of Him. Also my art is changing and how I actually create as well. BIG changes!

The bird on the 'twig' of Love represents more words I found in the Bible...from Zephaniah 3:17 - The Lord your God is with you; his power gives you victory. The Lord will take delight in you and in his love he will give you new life. He will sing and be joyful over you.

Then to sum up all the times within the Bible quotes I found the theme of being precious to God, being loved by Him, I used the element saying that I listen to His words and He says I'm beautiful.

If you would like to join in on the Zoe Project, there's a link to the class in Altered Amanda's Store - just follow the link above!
TFL!
Bernie x

The Beginning

So! Back in October 2014, I came across a Study from members of a Facebook group that really called to me to take part. I've been reluctant to commit to anything much for a while now simply because real life keeps getting in the way! But this was really calling to me! So I took the plunge and joined in with the Pause, Ponder & Prepare Study, which you can find out about here.

I managed to keep up with making a page of art a day, mainly thanks to the wonderful digital scrapbooking kits I treated myself to from both Altered Amanda's Studio (have a look here!) and Dawn Inskip (have a look at her stash here!). Most days in November (we created during November so we could use the artwork and devotionals during Advent) I was up at 4am and creating in Photoshop by 5am!! Then during Advent I made a set of tags for our Christmas tree - I actually got my hands messy with real paint and paper tags lol and printed and pasted on Bible verses. They looked so good on our tree and everyone seemed to like them!

I've posted below some of my pages for Pause, Ponder & Prepare. Managing to achieve this and enjoying myself so much inspired me and gave me more confidence for what was to come next! I'll carry on the story on the next post!

My Cover