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Bible Journaling With Me- Watercolor Deer Silhouette- Plus A Free Printable

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A couple of months ago I was working in the journaling Bible I am creating for my son, and came upon Psalm 42:1-2. It says “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.”

I knew I wanted to paint a deer, but animals are quite hard to paint! Then I realized I could paint a silhouette! Silhouettes don’t require much talent because you don’t have to paint any actual features and just need to color in an outline!

I created a little deer traceable to make it even easier and got to painting. I originally did this deer silhouette in acrylic in the Baby’s Bible, but then loved it so much that I decided to do it again using watercolors in my personal Bible!

Bible Journaling- How to paint a deer silhouette with watercolor. Plus a free printable!

Check out the video below to see just how I created this watercolor deer page!

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Bible Journaling- How to paint a deer silhouette with watercolor. Plus a free printable!

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As always, I am sharing my page to provide inspiration! You, of course, can go many different ways with this. Use colored pencils instead of watercolors, change up the colors or placement of the deer, etc.! Have fun and do what feels right to you!

I did not prep my page! I very very rarely prep because I use the same eight supplies for almost all of my Bible journaling pages. I have never had bleed through with those eight supplies! But, you can find out more about page prep HERE.

Bible Journaling- How to paint a deer silhouette with watercolor. Plus a free printable!
Version using acrylic paint and the Interleaved Bible

A common question I get asked is: “if you were to use watercolor on one side of the page, and then paint on the backside, will it cause the original painting to bleed/run?” It definitely shouldn’t! When watercolor is still wet, yes, the paint can still be picked up or moved, but once it dries completely, it is rather permanent. – In the video above, you can see that when I painted my page, I painted the deer first, and then painted the background on top of it, and that deer stayed put!

I also get asked if I can still read the scripture after I paint on top of it. The vast majority of the time, when I use watercolors, I can still read the text! This page, for example, I can still read completely. In the acrylic version I did, that Bible has full blank pages, so I did not paint over any text (Bible is the Interleaved Bible). Whether or not you decide to paint over the scripture is completely up to you!

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