Creating the Arts for God
Hate evil, you who love the Lord, Who watches over the souls of His godly ones; He saves them from the hand of the wicked. Light is sown like seed for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart. Be joyful in the…
Category Learning Through Art
Enjoying the Stroke, Stroke, Stroke
“Rome wasn’t built in a day,” as the old saying goes. Sometimes, though, we wish it could be. Well, maybe not Rome, but we do want things we’d like to accomplish to happen much faster than they do. Sometimes we…
Learning How to Teach from Miss Judy
Our children and I remember with joy the art classes we all took as one of our homeschooling subjects. Many pencil, colored pencil, and watercolor pencil pictures from those days decorate the walls of our house. Last Wednesday I gave…
Beautiful Children
Each of the Anna Milo Upjohn drawings and watercolors that I have found in the prints and photographs of the Library of Congress are ones she created for the American Red Cross. All are dated between 1915 and 1920. My…
The Pool of Bethesda
David Roberts was born in Scotland in 1796 (to give some historic context, that’s the year Tennessee became the 16th state). Roberts was the son of a cobbler. In his teens, he was apprenticed to a house painter. At age…
Counting . . .
I hope you are enjoying our Saturday art by Miss A. M. Upjohn of the Paris office of the American Red Cross. The date on this drawing is March 28, 1919. The title is “Remember to drink plenty of milk.”…