So one of the prompts this week with Get Messy Art Journal has to do with the greatest act of love. When I read the words, I could think of nothing that could top Jesus dying on the cross for US.
Immediately, I knew that I wanted to watercolor an image of Jesus' feet nailed to the cross.
I spent the whole day kicking ideas around my head of other embellishments or techniques that I could add to the page. I kept coming up short. No matter what, everything that I imagined would take away from the message, instead of add to it.
As I sat down to work on the page, I thought...something will come to me as I work on it. Still, there I was, done with the watercolor, and nothing came. That was when I decided that this was one of those times where less really was more.
Thank you Lord for everything you've done for me.
xoxo,
Liz
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I LOVE this. It's so easy to think "more is best" when it comes to art journaling, but sometimes the less there is on a page the better the aesthetics.
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