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May 2nd, 2007

Illustrating the Bible

Former Beano and Dandy artist Graham Kennedy sent me some links to a couple of sites that he runs to do with illustrating the Bible. First of all the Bible Picture Website, which has his work available to buy for use with children’s sunday school groups etc, and then the Bible illustration blog, which deals with some of the issues faced when illustrating the Bible. An interesting sample post: Bible pictures: Cartoon Vs Realism.

3d feeding the 5000

Above: Feeding the 5000 in 3D. This will be ideal for readers who happen to be wearing green and red tinted spectacles. You can buy this image and some others as a powerpoint here (I’ve had to reduce it to fit into my template – the original is way way clearer). You can buy the special specs too.

I don’t know that my black and white cartoons would work terribly well in 3D. I’d need to do lots of sculpting with bits of wire.

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  1. Graham says:

    Many thanks for reviewing the sites Dave.
    I think your cartoons would look great in 3D!

    We give all the kids in our kids club 3D glasses when we use the 3D pictures. It’s a bit different.

    By the way, the lenses are red and blue for full colour. The green and red are for black and white pictures. (just a boring technical point!)

    I also run Bibleartist.com which is a reference site for Bible artists. If any of your readers have access to good photos of people wearing biblical clothing that they wouldn’t mind displaying for reference purposes, I would love to hear from them.

    Keep up the good work!

    May 2nd, 2007 at 10:52 am
  2. 3D pictures for Sunday School « Sunday School Resources says:

    [...] Posted by David in Bible pictures, Church School, Childrens ministry, Sunday School, church-kids. trackback Dave Walker of the cartoonchurch blog recommends 3D pictures of bible scenes and suggests theycould be useful for Sunday School classes. [...]

    May 2nd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
  3. ruth says:

    I am really glad I came here today – I have to run Sunday School in a couple of weeks time and the topic is “We Read the Bible”. There might be something here I can use with the children! Thanks!

    May 3rd, 2007 at 8:06 am
  4. Eddie says:

    Dave, there is an interesting site which links classical works of art to the Biblical passage or theme they illustrate. There may be some useful stuff there.
    http://perso.orange.fr/maurice.lamouroux/

    May 3rd, 2007 at 12:19 pm
  5. Mary says:

    Our church is about to start “Pizza Praise” for 6-10yos, we’ll be using the “Animated Bible Stories” range of DVDs (and pizza).

    May 3rd, 2007 at 4:29 pm