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February 24, 2023 Jesus•Jesus speaks to women•Uncategorized

Jesus Speaks to Women: The Bent Woman

I am creating a series of art and poems based on the words Jesus spoke to women. This poem is based on the account of Jesus’ words to a woman with a curved spine found in Luke 13:10-13. He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath day. Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years. She was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up. When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said...
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February 10, 2023 Coloring Pages•homeschool•kids•printable•Uncategorized

Introducing two new Bible printable sets + a free sample coloring page

My business has changed a lot over the last 10 years! I started off making cute animal prints for nursery decor on Etsy. In 2015, I started writing this blog and created my first Bible verse printable. I was looking for Bible coloring pages to do with my kids, and I couldn’t find what I was looking for. That led to creating my printable Bible verse cards and coloring pages. In 2018, I started exploring watercolor, and that led...

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December 15, 2022 advent•Uncategorized•waiting

The Question I’m Asking These Days

“God, how are you going to do this?” I felt like I have faced the impossible this year and seen God move in miraculous ways. Yet even now, there are situations big and small that seem impossible. I can’t control them. I can’t fix them. A while ago, I was reading through Luke and noticed the two passages below right next to each other in the account of the events before Jesus’ birth (I am highlighting the parts that...

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December 9, 2022 art•Uncategorized•watercolor

My December Art Shows

I was so honored to get to display my art in TWO local shows. One was at The Church of the Incarnation here in Harrisonburg. They have an entire Arts Incarnate program dedicated to platforming local artists and celebrating the arts with monthly art shows and musical and dance performances. My First Friday opening was shared with a local basket weaver and a performance by a local band. It was so fun! I am displaying the large landscapes and...

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August 26, 2022 Screensavers•suffering•Uncategorized

“I am confident of this”: Psalm 27:13 Phone Screensaver

I don’t know what you’re going through. I don’t know what hopes have been dashed in your heart. I don’t know how desperate and confused you may feel. I don’t know how thin is the hope you’re clinging to or how obscured your view of God has become. Maybe you have forgotten what it feels like to experience peace. Maybe the tide always seems too high. And I’m so sorry. But I am confident of a few things for...

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June 2, 2022 all good things•Uncategorized

All Good Things: April and May

I was having trouble focusing. I was worn out, feeling desperate. So last weekend I booked a hotel room and took myself on a retreat to the town of Winchester, VA, about an hour from here. I explored local thrift stores, watched some movies, and tried some small local restaurants (this Peruvian chicken place was the absolute best). I needed quiet. I needed rest. I needed to hear from the Lord. Does anyone else have a hard time admitting,...

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February 25, 2022 all good things•books that shape me•Uncategorized

All Good Things: February

I was talking with a friend yesterday who is walking through some very hard things. I said, “I’ve always wondered how people survived things like pandemics and wars and, well, I guess now we know. You just keep living one day at a time.” Here are some pictures from January and February of living life in the middle of the hard. I hope they bring some joy! Sometimes we like the snow; sometimes we don’t. My son created this...

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February 4, 2022 Jesus•Jesus speaks to women•Uncategorized

Jesus Speaks to Women: the Little Girl

I am creating a series of art and poems based on the words Jesus spoke to women. This poem is based on the story of Jesus raising the 12-year-old daughter of Jairus, the synagogue leader in Mark 5:21-43 and Luke 8:40-56 at the end of exhaustionin and out of lightI finally drink deepof sleep and pressing darkness outside the rise and fallof wailing –for death stingsa needling pain “Don’t fearonly believeShe is sleeping” He is nearhis eyesunshroudedand seeing “Little girl arise” black...

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January 3, 2022 all good things•books that shape me•Uncategorized

All Good Things: 2021 Year-end recap

Well hello there to you and a new year! Because I was quite absent here on the blog in the blur of work and school activities, I wanted to do a recap of the end of last year. Just in time for the big Omicron surge, my whole family was able to get vaccinated (and I boosted), for which we are very grateful. We started reading through the Narnia books with the kids. I had the opportunity to display...

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A gray squirrel in oil pastels and 6-B pencil, and A gray squirrel in oil pastels and 6-B pencil, and dear Dolly. 💓🤍
I learned so much from this study of Luke 4:1-13 a I learned so much from this study of Luke 4:1-13 and the testing of Jesus in the wilderness (as I do every study through this incredible book). I thought this painting by Briton Rivière captures the spiritual, mental and physical anguish of the moment for Jesus, a torment that would continue until the end of his life. I added Hebrews 2:18 to the coloring page for this study: "Because he suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted." 

So many treasures from this story, but something new for me was the idea that Jesus  faced temptation not just by rotely quoting Scripture--even Satan could do that! It was deeper than that. Each of the Scriptures he quoted placed him in the story of the people of Israel and their failures as God delivered them from Egypt. He faced temptation by understanding the larger story of what God was doing in the world and what he was called to do. Where Israel had faltered, he would be faithful. This is what allowed him to see through the temptations he faced. I find that so encouraging. 

You can read the full study on my Marydean Draws Substack page. Paid subscribers can download the printable study and coloring page.

https://marydeandraws.substack.com/p/the-gospel-of-luke-eyewitnesses-to-e91

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I've got openings available in all my daytime Fall I've got openings available in all my daytime Fall classes @friendlycityclay in Harrisonburg:
*Two color mixing workshops. This one was created for those who can't commit to the full introduction to watercolor class. It's a great basic introduction to creating color with confidence! 
*We are offering homeschool art classes for the first time! They are a mix of clay (taught by Laura-Paige) and 2-D art (taught by me)
*Intro to Watercolor for all the essential basics
*Building your Watercolor Skills: Experiments in Learning to Play. This one will be lots of play with color, shape, and more abstract, playful use of watercolor.

Let me know if you have questions! You can sign up for classes here:
https://www.friendlycityclay.com/current-classes
Saturday's mixed media floral class @friendlycityc Saturday's mixed media floral class @friendlycityclay was so fun! These are done in watercolor + pastel on music pages.
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