The Bible illustration blog

For the final day of my week long Blogathon I thought I would give an update on how the picture sets are progressing. As you may remember, w...

Annie Vallotton, illustrator of the iconic images in American Bible Society’s Good News Bible, died in France on December 28, 2013 at the ag...

Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938). Henry Matthew Brock (1875-1960) A few years ago I purchased two old books (1950's) of Bible stories th...

The 'New Tribes Mission' pictures are finally complete! There are 210 pictures in the new set which is exactly double the number of ...

I've received a few updates recently from Bible artists around the globe that I would like to share with you. There are also a number of...

I had an email this week from a 'Jenny' in Indiana who is trying to get hold of a children's Bible which she owned as a child i...

One of the many tasks of the Bible artist is to recreate the ancient civilizations of Bible times. In our attempts to accurately portray sce...

Our brand new website is finally live! Click here to visit the new 'Bible Picture website'. You can now view every picture in each ...

I received an email this morning from Rolf Stærk in Norway. Rolf runs the website 'Biblical Art on the WWW' . After 10 years and aro...

The question above is a little misleading - the question should read "How would you draw a 65 year old man from the early Old Testament...

There was an interesting comment left by 'OneGod' on 'The Lost Coin' post that I thought I would share with you. Or what wo...

The picture set of Noah's Ark is finished. There are 17 pictures in this set which is why it's taken so long to complete! I am inde...

While I was doing some research in connection with the last picture for our children's Bible, which is the 'Crossing of the Red Sea...

A few years ago I drew a picture of King Saul asleep in a cave, while David, who was hiding in the same cave with his men, cut off the corne...

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 1836-1912 I recently came across some amazing Bible paintings by Dutch born Victorian artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tade...

Here's a picture taken from the new 'Egermeier's Bible Story Book.' The picture is by one of my favorite Bible artists Cliv...

David and Goliath is one of the better known Bible stories. Anyone who doubts the authenticity of the story should take a little time to loo...

I have Just finished illustrating a picture of Samson from Judges chapter 16 for our upcoming Bible. Most children's Bibles show Samson ...

Before illustrating the picture (right) of Samuel and Eli, I wanted to gather some information about where this scene was taking place. In t...

The most common mistake made by artists when depicting 'Daniel in the Lion's Den' is showing Daniel to be much younger than he a...