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April 11, 2025 paint with me•Uncategorized

Starting with watercolor: basic supplies

I’m on Substack! Just click on the link below to view my post. You can subscribe there for all my new content including watercolor tutorials and Bible studies. New content added weekly! Getting Started with Watercolor: The Basic Supplies by Marydean Draws all the options to get you started on your watercolor journey + a printable supply list (and shopping links) Read on Substack
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April 9, 2025 Uncategorized

Why I love watercolor and how I started (on Substack)

Fun news! I’ve launched a Substack account. I’ll be sharing my newest Bible studies and art tutorials there with subscribers. This post originally appeared on my Substack account, but I’m sharing it here. You can take a look and subscribe HERE. Why I love watercolor and how I started by Marydean Draws My watercolor story and why I think it’s such a good medium to start with on your own painting journey. Read on Substack

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February 14, 2025 art with kids•paint with me•printable•watercolor

Printable Bird Heart Watercolor Template

I had the opportunity to lead a Galentine’s Day watercolor night this week, so I thought I’d share with you the template I used. Just download the template and print on watercolor paper (or any thicker paper that will take some water). Then collect your watercolors or any of your favorite art supplies and enjoy! The file is sized at 8×10″ but can be printed on larger or smaller paper. To get your file, just click on the link...

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December 9, 2024 advent•printable•Uncategorized

All Good Things: Christmas Printable Resources Round-up

You know I love a good printable resource, whether it’s for my own family or for teaching Sunday school or Bible study, so today I’m sharing some Christmas resources I liked. Some are free and some are for sale (marked with $). Things you can find on my website: Joy to the World Coloring Page (free) The Greatest Gifts Printable Box to color (free) 25 Days of Advent Joy Printable Set ($10-15) Printable Christmas Cards to color ($5) Historically...

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August 30, 2024 Coloring Pages•printable•Uncategorized

Jesus, Friend of Sinners + Jesus Meets Zacchaeus Luke 19:5 Coloring Page

Image: Zacchaeus in the Sycamore Awaiting the Passage of Jesus by James Tissot from the Brooklyn Museum. James Tissot painted a whole collection of painting on the life of Jesus that you can explore HERE. I have been meditating on the theme of “Jesus, friend of sinners” that I see as I read through the book of Luke. Here are two passages I find really interesting. Would you consider them with me? “Jesus went on to say, “To what,...

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August 23, 2024 Screensavers•Uncategorized

Take it to the Lord in Prayer Screensaver

Through it all, I am rejoicing today in the proven truth of these lines from What a Friend We Have in Jesus by Joseph Scriven: What a friend we have in JesusAll our sins and griefs to bearAnd what a privilege to carryEverything to God in prayer I love this version of Aretha Franklin singing it with a choir in 1972: I made this screensaver to remind you to “take it to the Lord in prayer” each day, whatever...

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If you look up artwork or movies featuring Mary Ma If you look up artwork or movies featuring Mary Magdalene, you’ll often find her depicted as a penitent woman or as sexualized, with her clothes literally falling off her body. It was Pope Gregory the Great who proposed that Mary Magdalene’s seven demons represented the seven deadly sins and that she was both a prostitute and the penitent sinner who anoints Jesus in Luke 7:36-50 (Jennifer Powell McNutt).

Later church historians assumed that Mary Magdalene’s great sins were to blame for her demon possession (McNutt). While the Western Church came to see Mary Magdalene as a prostitute and a great sinner, the Eastern Orthodox church honored her as the leader of the “myrrh-bearing women” (Taylor and Bond).

Read some research into the REAL Mary Magdalene story here:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/jesus-speaks-to-women-chapter-16
In today's Friday newsletter: 🌸 Mother's Day Sa In today's Friday newsletter:
🌸 Mother's Day Sale! 20% off with the MOMLOVE on my website. Mother's day is Sunday, May 10 this year.
🌸 Part 1 of the Mary Magdalene study is up on Substack. Have you ever heard that she was a prostitute? Where did that come from? Is it Biblical? I was fascinated by how her story has been told through history, the origins of her name, what it means that she had been possessed by seven demons, and her place among Jesus’ disciples. 
🌸 The Holy Post podcast episode with Bri Stensrud, the director of Women of Welcome, “a community dedicated to diving into the whole of scripture to understand God’s heart for the immigrant and refugee.” 

Read the newsletter here:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/marys-friday-newsletter-41726

Read the Mary Magdalene post here:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/jesus-speaks-to-women-chapter-16

If you sign up for my newsletter, you can receive all my posts in your inbox. Sign up on my website at www.marydeandraws.com or find me on Substack. You don't need the Substack app to read my posts, but it's easy to use, and you can listen to any of the stories with the playback feature.
When I started writing the Jesus Speaks to Women B When I started writing the Jesus Speaks to Women Bible studies last year, I started collecting books on New Testament women. I really didn’t know where to start at first. I wasn’t familiar with the scholarship about women in the Bible, and I hadn’t even heard of any female theologians doing this work!

So you don’t have to start from scratch if you’re like I was, I’m going to share a list of books I’ve learned from in the last year. Some are more academic than others, but all have been helpful. 

See the list here or find me "Marydean Draws" on Substack:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/books-about-women-in-the-new-testament
In today's Friday newsletter: 🌸 things I learne In today's Friday newsletter:
🌸 things I learned from my pastor dad (in honor of his birthday)
🌸 upcoming bird collage workshop at Friendly City Clay and Art Center
🌸 using oil pastels + a recommended set from Blick
🌸 book about women in the New Testament 
🌸 preparing to write about Mary Magdalene and the resurrection stories

Read it all here:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/marys-friday-newsletter-41026

The post about books about New Testament women:
https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/books-about-women-in-the-new-testament

If you sign up for my newsletter, you can receive all my posts in your inbox. Sign up on my website at www.marydeandraws.com or find me on Substack. You don't need the Substack app to read my posts, but it's easy to use, and you can listen to any of the stories with the playback feature.
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