Watercolor Bible Journaling – Deeper Still Lesson 10
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Hello Everyone! Welcome to lesson 10 in Deeper Still! In this Bible Art Journaling Challenge series, we’re taking an adventure into the depths of God! In this lesson, I want to share watercolor Bible journaling with you, using one of my favorite watercolor products… Neocolor II watercolor crayons! And… let’s not forget the super fun little touch at the end which requires fire. You’ll have to watch the video to see what I mean.
Watercolor Bible Journaling
Watercolor Bible journaling is a favorite of mine. Years ago I ran across some watercolor pencils and loved how simple it was to draw with color and then add water for a more controlled watercolor experience. Water has a way of making color come alive on paper and I was hooked! Some time later, I found a lovely little tin of 15 Neocolor II watercolor crayons. You can flip the lid open, scribble the crayons right on the inside of the open lid and then you’ve got a fabulous little travel watercolor palette that’ll fit right inside the smallest purse!
I think choosing to start with watercolor in such a “controlled” way, really helped the watercolor be something I was in charge of, instead of feeling like it was going to run everywhere. I “learned the ropes” in this simple way and when I picked up a brush to use more traditional watercolors in the coming months, I was familiar enough, for watercolor to feel natural. I grow more in love with Neocolor II with each project. In time, I invested in the largest set of Neocolor II watercolor crayons, which at the time was 126 colors! It’s now shrunk to a huge and manageable range of 84 colors, which fit in a lovely larger tin and are amazing.
When I started watercolor Bible journaling, my very obvious love of watercolor began to take on fresh meaning. There is something beautiful about taking something which is meant for pure pleasure and mixing it with something which helps you grow spiritually.
In this lesson I will demonstrate with Neocolor II watercolor crayons, but do remember that watercolor comes in so many shapes, sizes, qualities and even with specialties. Use what you have, or check out my recommendations for watercolor Bible journaling supplies in my Bible Journaling Supplies Guide. Anyway, let’s do some watercolor Bible journaling!
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Bible Journaling Supplies
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I used the following Neocolor II watercolor crayons for this Bible journaling entry.
A Smart Way To Invest In Supplies
If you’re interested in buying a better quality watercolor like the Caran D’Ache Neocolor II watercolor crayons, allow me to offer some advice. I don’t want you wasting money, or over spending. I recommend this for any investment where there is a product that comes in a variety of colors with various sets. Don’t worry, I find Neocolor II to be very reasonably priced for the quality and they seem to last forever!
Sets tend to be cheaper per item, than buying individual colors in nearly every product instance. But, you don’t want to buy a full set of something in every color possible, just to find that you don’t really like how they work. This is especially true if you are brand new to trying something out.
I recommend you grab a small enough range of color to lessen the investment, but a big enough set to feel like you have a nice range of color. In the case of Neocolor II, (not to be confused with Neocolor I oil pastels!), I’d pass up the smallest 10 color set, which feels limited if you don’t know how to mix colors and go for the 15 set, which could keep you happily watercoloring for years without want! In the case of Inktense, for example, I’d skip the 6 and 12 sets and go for the 24 set. You don’t need all 78 colors (unless you want them later!) and can enjoy lovely color choice options with 24 colors. I think you understand the concept here.
Just think, “How many colors do I need if I don’t know how to color mix?” and then watch how you do with those. If you buy a small set and find you’re longing for more colors, or have gone on to buy 6-8 additional individual colors, it might be time to consider buying the largest set you can, to save money in the long run.
If it would help you out, check out my free Bible Journaling Supplies Guide for my recommendations in further detail. I update it and add to it regularly. There is a dedicated watercolor section.
As a side note… let me know in the comments if you’d find it helpful if I did a mini course on an introduction to color mixing. I’d love your feedback.
I’ve saved myself a lot of money buying small sets and then deciding how much I love a product, before investing big. Then, I have a small set to travel with, share, or give away! Watercolor Bible journaling should not break the bank. Just know that good quality watercolor will be more vibrant and will not leave your surface with a chalky finish that cheap ones offer. You do get what you pay for with watercolor. The more you pay, the less fillers you get. Perhaps somebody should tell Caran D’Ache how much I love them. 🙂
Scripture
I used my Single Column ESV Journaling Bible, for this lesson and the scripture for this challenge is Revelation 19:10b…
“…for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.“
The Power Of Sharing Testimonies
I hope you’ve heard me in the deepest part of your heart while watching the video for this lesson. This is huge. Will you take time in this challenge to ponder a testimony of God’s goodness in your life? Perhaps even create an illustration for this challenge, which directly reflects that thing. Take it a step further than just anything God has done in your life and do the following.
- STEP 1: Identify what you need breakthrough for, right now.
- STEP 2: Identify a testimony of God providing breakthrough in the same way you need.
- STEP 3: Find a place of genuine thankfulness in your heart for that miracle and thank God openly for what He did.
- STEP 4: Find anyone who will listen and share the testimony you identified. (Psst! The comment section below is the best place to start!)
- STEP 5: Invite God to do what He did in the past, for you in this season.
- STEP 6: Repeat, repeat, repeat. Oh, did I say that enough? Repeat!
God just wants to release life over our circumstances and wants us to partner with Him in doing the same. Complaining about our current life will not fix things but we can partner to speak life into our situation and this really is a huge key how, yet so simple!
I find it useful to take time reading stories and watching video of testimonies of how God has impacted others. When I need breakthrough in my life in a particular area, I search out testimonies to begin creating an atmosphere of attention on how God has brought breakthrough in this area before.
It could be a previous testimony that was for you, a loved one, someone you don’t know, or even a story you read/heard! The idea here is to fill your life with a pattern of identifying a need for breakthrough, finding testimonies of what God has done for this need in the past, sharing the testimony as an act of prophecy to release God’s presence into the need and to openly invite Him to do again what He has done in the past.
In the Bible, we see so much evidence that the Israelites did amazingly well when they chose to remember and ponder what God had done in the past for them. Yet, whenever, (and I do mean whenever), they strayed from remembering to talk about what God had done for them, things truly fell apart for them.
There is an act of obedience in our relationship with God, to not forget what He has done and to speak it out as to prophetically release His power to do it again. It’s a simple principle of His Word with life changing impact when we grasp it.
My husband and I believe it so fully that we created a Revival History Timeline, to graph the last 500 years of every major move of God worldwide. We want to be people who study God’s goodness and are ready to share testimony of it wherever needs are among us. When life throws us lemons, our response is to share testimonies of breakthrough. It’s become a life habit that if someone shares a difficulty, our brain scans through a growing library of God’s faithful answer to prayer, to prophetically infuse hope and life.
If you want to know more about how I step into breakthrough, I actually have a course called Thanks Giving Breakthrough which may really impact you. I’d love to have you join me and your fellow students, in stepping into freedom.
Please do share a testimony in the comments below! If you’re new here, we have lots of helpful people in our community who pop into the comments and share ideas and thoughts you may want to check out too. If you’ve not seen lesson one yet, I encourage you to start at the beginning so we can go on a journey together in this free 12-part devotional series. It’s not too late to join in, (it never is!) and I’d rather you start anywhere, than not at all.
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You are loved. x
*Scripture quoted and artwork completed in the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 7:32 pm
I love this, thank you for sharing your testimony and your talent. I also enjoy watercolor and recently purchased the 10 count of the neocolors and am loving them. I added the large set to my Bible Journaling wishlist but it is nice to hear that I don’t need ALL the colors, so I added the 30 ct.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
Djem it is true. You don’t need ALL the colors.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 7:44 pm
Love the study!
God gave a prophecy to me about 10 years ago that I would become involved in mission work. Since then my husband had been healed of a petrifying fear of flying that has enabled this prophesy to begin unfolding. I have be witness to many new and exciting adventures with God’s global family
Dec 14, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
Praise God Yvonne! Thanks for sharing that testimony.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 8:12 pm
I would love a mini course on mixing. I just received my nice bigger set of prisma colored pencils and have been blending and shading with them..lol some big oops and some really cool ones. I would love to see and learn more on mixing colors though. Thank You for allowing God to use you to reach so many.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 8:25 pm
Good to know Evalena! Thanks for letting me know.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 9:29 pm
My testimony began when I became reborn 37 years ago. I had been living a sinful life with substance abuse. I turned my life over to Christ and literally was slain in His Spirit. I was healed of all addictions cold turkey without need for rehab. It was as if I was a new creation literally overnight. The power of God was so powerful I fell down and haven’t been the same since, thank God. I truly felt Jesus inside of me and yes I was scared, but I also was on a high that made alcohol and drugs no longer desirable for me. I have been clean since and devoted to Jesus. I was also healed over the years of alcoholic parents, the scars that this upbringing caused. I have forgiven them and myself. I am working on breaking through from clinical depression that runs through my family, from your Thanksgiving Breakthrough Lessons. I love this Lesson 10 about testimony (my testimony isn’t easy for me to share publically, but maybe someone out there is afraid as I was about their past and will be encouraged that God loves us no matter what, no matter what we did)
I have the neo II colors as well and love them. I do have a question about pens on prepped pages. I experienced ruining two pens writing over prepped page. I did allow it to dry completely first, but it still would no longer write. I wondered if gesso can be applied over the pen ink after it’s been written on the page? I used Dina Wakley gesso. Thank you, Rebekah so much for your loving care and ministry and prayers.
Jan 27, 2018 @ 7:23 pm
Thank you for openly sharing. Bless you, your experience and your future. Celeste
Dec 14, 2017 @ 10:32 pm
Love this. I love water color to but have never painted in my bible.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 10:39 pm
Wow that is the perfect add to your thanksgiving breakthrough course. It is the “revelation” of the whole course. I am remembering the testimonies now of God and the one I remember most is on the mission field in Ecuador 16 years ago. My then 2 year old son contracted a very similar to cholera strain of bacteria, he was dying from and nothing was responding we had people around the world praying for him. A miracle occurred when my husband returned home to get stuff and he ran into our downstairs neighbor who was a psychiatrist and he saw his distressed countenance. As my husband told him he grabbed him said come with me and rushed back to the hospital with him . He said he saw this because he had worked in the jungle with cholera before. He took over the hospital staff and doctors and said a series of things to do now. He said hospitals are to die in here we need to get him out asap. Within 24hrs we checked him out because of the right medicines now working and we saw God move mountains through a psychiatrist placed in our lives. We truly were preparing for his death and all I could do was repeat God you can do this, but he is yours and I accept whatever happens. I would pray Psalms 23 over and over as my mind was numb and I was tired from watching 72 hours of dysentery and fever so bad that iv hydration couldn’t keep up.
God answered in such a big way for our family. My frail skeleton of a son was fever free and healing through the most unexpected of people. He is 18 now and following Jesus, I smile with what God has in store for him.
My prayers are for all our children to come to Jesus and be sold out to only him, to be the living testimonies of Rev. 19:10. A heritage of praise.
Thanks for a beautiful reminder of how important testimonies are.
Dec 14, 2017 @ 11:07 pm
I used to be incredibly bound up with shyness and rejection to the point where I was scared to go somewhere without a person I knew. I had few friends. God healed all of that, he taught me how to listen to him for words that would open others up and get them to start talking and he walked beside me. So is I know that if I have to gosomewherealone, or new, I will have him with me, but he will also have someone there to show me to bless wiht a friend for even a short time.
Dec 15, 2017 @ 3:10 am
This was a awesome course. And guess what! Our Pastor at church just (like 2 weeks ago) preached a series of sermons called “Breakthrough”.
What he preached and some of the things you said were the same! Thank you so much. I wish I could give you a hug. I love watercolors, intense, everything!!!!!And thank you for reminding me that God is a god of break throughs. He is a chain breaker….as the song ..goes….by Zach Williams..have you heard of it? You can find it on YouTube.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you do. When I get a email from you I mark it, and find quite time to watch and really playfully listen.
God still does break chain, we just need reminding. He has always been there and walked me through some rough times. You said something about financial chains. I need that. I just needed reminding. Thank you so much. God can do financial miracle. Praise the Wonderful heavenly Father.
Dec 15, 2017 @ 7:14 pm
We love Bible Journaling with you…we have a little group of 2 moms, and our daughters … we have met a few times and really are in awe when you start mixing and laying on the color. We so appreciate the spiritual significance of studying in this new way. We currently only have pencils but Christmas is coming….do you think we could achieve similar results with the Prismacolor Verithin and Color pencils? if so could you provide any suggestions for how? also, we noticed that your page is a bit curly at the top and bottom, is this normal? and how do you “flatten” them or do they go back to flat once the page dries and you can close it for some time? thanks for all you do for the Kingdom…we rejoice in your testimony of healing….and will share more as we march on into more journaling!!! much love, Kim, Jennifer, Eliana and Esther.
Jan 6, 2018 @ 8:49 pm
Oh my goodness, I’ve missed you! 2017 was chock full of life and it’s fair share of distractions, but God is still in control! He managed to bring me to a place of obedience to follow through on a task He started in me FIVE years ago… I am writing a study called My Love Dare with God…daring to love God on a deeper level (like that? Deeper seems to be a common thread!). I’ve never written a study, but I promised God I would stop dragging my heels and trust Him to write the words!
I love my neocolors also and really enjoyed the technique – I’m wrapping up my devotional Thrive Bible & starting with a new interleaved Bible this year….plenty of room to worship & try out new techniques!
Jan 27, 2018 @ 7:19 pm
I have grown very strong in my faith since my first child was born as a medically fragile patient. He lived 4 1/2 years and required an exorbitant amount of care. He has been in heaven almost 16 years now. I have spoiled my two younger sons. My prayer was not to be bitter about his health or my loss of his earthly life. God answered so many prayers, and gave a strength that can not be put into words. I lost an ungodly marriage as well. I struggled with the “sin” of divorce and realized I was not trusting God to redeem and forgive me. My youngest son is a high school junior and I worry about being alone. Of late I have been trying to plan what my life should look like, where I should live, how I should serve. My realization has been that I pray for others publically and privately however I have not been asking my Father to reveal His plans for what feels like an open void. I actually watched this lesson for the second time today when I came across a note for myself from the first viewing. So I tell you that God will strengthen you for whatever you think is impossible. The Spirit will interpret prayers that you can not give words to (Rom 8:26-27). Please pray for my discernment so that I can be satisfied in my life in Christ as a single woman. I am a daughter of God and no other description is really needed. I will be praying about signing up for the course. I appreciate all the testimonies shared here publically. Praise God, Amen
Jul 14, 2019 @ 9:51 pm
What a powerful lesson and testimony. Thank you for sharing. Really enjoyed this lesson a lot.