Category: Artwork

Scripture Princesses Shareables

For the Scripture Princesses Blog Tour, I created shareable graphics for the bloggers to post with their reviews. Here is all of them, all together.

I hope you’ll find them inspirational.

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These are the portraits of the women from the chapter beginnings in Scripture Princesses. The book itself is black and white with ink drawings, but I wanted these to be in color. I created these by first adjusting the line color of each portrait in photoshop and printing them onto cardstock with our inkjet printer that has waterproof ink. Cardstock isn’t the best paper to be painting on, but it’ll go through a desktop printer, so it’s a compromise.

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I watercolored each portrait, focusing on being fast and loose, and using a mostly two color scheme for each.

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This one of Mary Magdalene isn’t from the chapter head, but instead from the illustration where she sees the risen Christ and realizes who he is. My chapter-head portrait of her is sad, so I chose to paint her graphic from this happy scene.

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Because cardstock isn’t meant for watercoloring, after I let each one dry, I put it under a pile of heavy books for the night to flatten down all the curling. It worked decently.

Here’s them all laid out in their pretty painted glory:

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I wish I had thought of flattening under books as I was creating my 114 page graphic novel Together, which is also watercolored on cardstock. I used cardstock then because it was cheap and easy. 🙂 I was unemployed or under-employed through a lot of the creation of that comic in 2008-2010.

Together can read in it’s entirety here.

 

I hope many people will enjoy these! They can be pinned, shared, and if you click on them, they are sized for a decent print-out for a small poster.

Scripture Princesses

I’m writing and illustrating a book!

Update, August 11, 2015: It’s out and available now!

It features stories of women in the scriptures for LDS girls ages 6 to 12.

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Scripture Princesses
Stories of Righteous Daughters of God
Rebecca J. Greenwood

This beautifully illustrated book features all your little princess’s favorite scripture heroines. Each chapter tells the story of a different scripture princess, from Rachel and Leah to Abish and the Lamanite Queen, and even Emma Smith. With women your little girl can look up to, this book makes a perfect present for baptisms, birthdays, or any occasion.

Paperback, 128 pages, with 80 black and white illustrations

Available now!

Product Details
Title: Scripture Princesses: Stories of Righteous Daughters of God
Author and Illustrator: Rebecca J. Greenwood
Paperback: 6 x 9 inches
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9781462116539
Publisher: Cedar Fort Media and Publishing
Release date: 8/11/2015
Price: $10.99

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Download a FREE chapter!

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Check out the Blog Tour to read reviews, Q&A’s with me about the book, and fun inspirational graphics:

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Download several FREE coloring pages from the book:

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And a FREE tiara printable, with instructions!

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Painted Embroidery: Blue Mandala

I really like mandalas. They are lovely and ornate, but rather relaxing to create.Blue_mandala_paintedemboidery_side

Free motion machine embroidery and watercolor on watercolor canvas, stretched in a 6 in. embroidery hoop.

I didn’t use the hoop while embroidering this however, because embroidery hoops sadly don’t fit under my normal sewing machine’s needle. Instead, I stiffen the canvas with machine embroidery stabilizer so I can move it around easily.

This piece is available for sale in my Etsy shop.

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