Color The Bible

Monday, March 17, 2025

The Gospel of Matthew Carpet Coloring Page

Coloring Page Description: A sample of the Gospel of Matthew carpet page, illuminated coloring page

Don't forget to drag the png. into a Word Document an enlarge the image as much as possible before printing it folks. If you have a question about this adult coloring page, just type into the comment box located directly below this post and I'll try to get back to you as soon as I can.

Acanthus with Fruit Dish

Coloring Page Description: A plethora of acanthus plus a small fruit dish by comparison by Kathy Grimm enjoy.

Byzantine Birds Coloring Page

Coloring Page Description: birds and dragons from the Byzantine Age

Tulips and Hearts Coloring Page

Coloring Page Description: carpet page design, art nouveau, hearts, tulips, daisies

Thistle Design Coloring Page

Coloring Page Description: carpet page pattern incorporating thistle, stalks and leaves

Miniature from The Benedictional of Aethelwold

Miniature from The Benedictional of Aethelwold. written and illuminated by a
monastic scribe at Winchester.

Description of Illuminated Carpet Page:"One of the miniatures, representing the Ascension; the coloring is extremely beautiful and harmonious, enhanced by a skillful use of burnished gold.

Though the figures and especially the delicately modeled faces have a character of their own, peculiarly English in feeling, yet in the general style of the miniatures, and in their elaborate borders there are very distinct signs of a strong Carolingian influence, owing, no doubt, to the introduction of Frankish illuminators and the purchase of Carolingian manuscripts during the reign of Alfred the Great, more than half a century before the date of this manuscript." text by Middleton

Friday, March 14, 2025

Craft a "Noah's Ark" paper plate pocket

"Noah's Ark" made using two paper plates; it will hold a paper animal menagerie
and Noah's family of course!

You will need the following supplies to make this ark craft: two paper plates, a stapler, magic markers, scissors and white school glue.

Step-by-Step Instructions:

Draw a line through the center of the first paper plate. Color the lower half black and the upper half with the top of the ark, sky and rainbow.
Cut the second paper plate in half exactly and put the upper portion away for a future paper plate craft. You will only be using the bottom portion to complete this ark "pocket."
Turn the pocket over and color the back side of it so that once the ark has been colored and assembled there will be a distinctive pocket.
Cut three identical portholes for the side of the ark.
Next draw and color in the ark's hull a wood pattern just like the topsides.
On the rim of the paper plate draw and color water waves.
Squeeze out a thin line of white school glue around the lower pocket and then also staple it around the edges of both paper plates to create a pocket for paper dolls and/or finger puppets.
The dark interior of the ark should "show" through the portholes if you have attached the pockets correctly.
You may wish to attach a string on the back of your paper plate ark pocket just behind the rainbow so that a child may hang it from a hook or nail in the wall of their room.

See the interior of the pocket made by attaching two paper plates at the bottom, the second
cut in half to form the hull of the ship.

Go and see the entire video below.

The Tale of Noah's Ark from VeggieTales

How to cut paper numbers...

The above numbers are drafted using graph paper one inch squares. Sunday school teachers or parents, or regular classroom teacher may print this template out to crafts their own versions from cardboard. Use them in educational materials as you please.

Spanish Woodcut of The Crucifixion

Coloring Page Description: Spanish woodcut, crucifixion, symbolism, skull, communion, salvation, St. John, the Virgin Mary

Acanthus and The Fleur Di Lis

Coloring Page Description: an acanthus design, fleur de lis, by Kathy Grimm

Collage, Cut and Assemble a "Love Bug"

This crafty caterpillar or "love bug" can be made from collaged stickers and pink tissue papers. Layer these with Mod Podge on top of a bright white background paper in order to make the colors brilliant. Let the glue dry before cutting out a series of heart shapes. I cut 14 hearts for this example. Then assemble and glue the hearts front to back in a long eruciform type body. Glue on a set of eyes and antenna from chenille stems. Your love bug(s) may then crawl all over the classroom walls or bulletin boards!

Left, the cut heart segments from the collage sheet. Right, face details of the teacher sample.

Left, the materials used to make the collage sheet. Right, the collage in progress.

Buggy Valentines:

Practice layering complimentary colors to create depth...

Here you can see from the close up shots above how I first applied the complimentary shades to each
color underneath my final layer. For example: I first shaded my stems and leaves with a red before
coloring on top of this layer with a green. You can see the small flecks of red underneath my green
colors. From a distance, this technique makes my coloring pages look three dimensional.
This technique is commonly used by artists who wish their work to look more "naturalistic."

On the traditional color wheel developed in the 18th century (see 1708 illustration by Boutet below), used by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh and other painters, and still used by many artists today, the primary colors were considered to be red, yellow, and blue, and the primary–secondary complementary pairs are red–blue, orange–green, and yellow–violet (or yellow–purple in Boutet's color wheel).

In the traditional model, a complementary color pair is made up of a primary color (yellow, blue, or red) and a secondary color (green, violet or orange). For example, yellow is a primary color, and painters can make violet by mixing of red and blue; so when yellow and violet paint are mixed, all three primary colors are present. Since paints work by absorbing light, having all three primaries together results in a black or gray color (see subtractive color). In more recent painting manuals, the more precise subtractive primary colors are magenta, cyan, and yellow.

Complementary colors can create some striking optical effects. The shadow of an object appears to contain some of the complementary color of the object. For example, the shadow of a red apple will appear to contain a little blue-green. This effect is often copied by painters who want to create more luminous and realistic shadows. Also, if you stare at a square of color for a long period of time (thirty seconds to a minute), and then look at a white paper or wall, you will briefly see an afterimage of the square in its complementary color.

A color's complimentary partner is located directly across from it on a color wheel. For example: Orange is the complimentary color of Blue, Violet is the complimentary color of Yellow and Red or Scarlet's complimentary color is Green.

Preparation for class:

Print the above color wheel out for your notebook in color. An accurate reference for the complimentary colors comes in handy when comparing your color combinations.
If you'd like to use the same coloring sheet as the one shown above, you may print it out from my Easter Egg Crafts blog here.

Tools:

Both primary and secondary colored pencils: red, blue, yellow, orange, green and purple
printed coloring sheet of flowers
Ink pens for blackening text if there is any.
eraser
pencil sharpener

Process:

I have uploaded many greyscale coloring sheets onto several of my journals for students to learn use this technique. Once you have gained confidence in the process, you will no longer need shaded coloring pages to help you accomplish similar techniques on your own. The greyscale coloring pages merely suggest where to put shading for those folks who are unable to take more formal art lessons from teachers in person.
Do not apply too much pressure to your colored pencils while learning this technique. It will take time for some of you to adjust to this concept. You want to be able to mix the layered colors together and if you press too hard it will not work as well.
By the same token, if you apply too little pressure to your drawing, your shading may not be obvious enough to suggest a three-dimensional illustration.
Choose first the complimentary color of that color you wish your final petal or stem to be finished with. So if you wish to color a flower yellow, first shade it with a gentle application of purple. I say gentle because purple is so much bolder in intensity than yellow when using this technique. If you want to color orange lilies than shade them first with a blue and so on...

Study Online:

In this video, you can watch watercolor artist, Chris, add delicate washes of yellow mixed with purple to emphasize the shadow areas of her yellow lily painting.