Bible Journaling - Genesis 46 & 47

Genesis 46 and 47 starts off with a genealogy of Jacob's (Israel's) descendants who left Canaan to settle in Egypt for the time of the famine. Most of these names are worth taking note of, as they would feature stronger later on when the nation of Israel was established. Especially the Levites are worth taking note of. In the meantime, though, most of these two chapters are devoted to getting the extended family moved from Canaan and settled in Egypt. We have a happy reunion between a father and his long lost son, as well as to find Jacob blessing the Pharaoh, rather than the other way around. I decided to depict this move in the form of a caravan, as they were moving house and a caravan is a mobile home. I share the steps for doing this with you in today's blog.

Genesis 46 and 47 look like this in the Inspire Praise Bible.

I coat the pages with Zellen Clear Gesso before I start. I have since been given two bottles of Clear Gesso to pretest, before marketing and manufacturing, which are much superior products, but I am not yet at liberty to disclose more on this topic, though I would advise you to keep your eyes peeled in future blogs, as I am very impressed with the results from one of these test samples.

The pages look like this when I start working on them.

I draw a vintage caravan across the two pages.

I will be painting the illustration with Derwent Inktense Blocks.

I use an Aqua Brush to pain the illustration with.

I then use Mont Marte Colour Brush Markers to add detail and definition to the illustration.

The finished pages.

You can watch a short compilation video of the steps above on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/EKJSnK553mY

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