Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Passport to Art - Day 8

Day 8 revolves around Abram and his journey directed by God with the promise that through Abram He would make a great nation.

12 The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
“I will make you into a great nation,
    and I will bless you;
I will make your name great,
    and you will be a blessing.[a]
I will bless those who bless you,
    and whoever curses you I will curse;
and all peoples on earth
    will be blessed through you.[b]
So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran. He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring[c] I will give this land. So he built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
Our Art Challenge was to use watercolor with the salt technique.  I'm not sure you can tell by the photo how the salt makes the watercolor recede from where it touches the page.  Makes pretty speckles.
Thanks for stopping by.
~Pam

1 comment:

Maria Ontiveros said...

I really like you folded page and how you wrote Abram. I just worked with the idea of taking a "leap of faith."