The Bible illustration blog

Had an email this last week from Dr Andrew Jackson from SmartChristian.com with a list of websites which he thought would be helpful to Bibl...

Cicely Mary Barker 1895-1973 Cicely Mary Barker is better known for her 'Flower Fairies', but she also illustrated some wonderful Bi...

Thanks to Paul Green for reminding me about the 'Look & Learn' magazine. I had forgotten how amazing the artwork was! 'Look ...

Just finished the latest set of Bible pictures. It's a new version of the 'Zacchaeus' story. Click here for more details. On th...

One of the Bible stories I will be illustrating soon is the 'Temptation of Christ', This will be a difficult one to illustrate as I ...

Clive Uptton 1911-2006 Clive Uptton was a Wartime political cartoonist for the Daily Sketch between 1940-1942. He was a left handed artist ...

Just finished the latest Bible picture story which covers John 18:13-40. The story includes the 'Trial of Jesus' before Caiaphas and...

This post is not really on the subject of Bible illustration, but I thought this off-topic item might be of interest to some. I recently cam...

The very first Bible costume photo references have gone up on BibleArtist.com. With more photos to follow shortly! The photos were kindly s...

Had a reply recently to an email I sent to Joe Kubert. For anyone who doesn't know who Joe Kubert is, he is one of the great American co...

When you come to adding color to your Bible characters, do you ever wonder which colors you should be using on clothing for authenticity? I...

Just heard today that the brilliant Christian cartoonist Johnny Hart went home to be with his Lord on Saturday. He was 76. He died of a stro...

The latest Bible story to be illustrated is 'The raising of Lazarus', (John ch11). The story includes 8 pictures, and is available e...

I had a visit last week from an old friend who now lives in Virginia. Paul Green is a fellow artist, now turned author. Like me, Paul was b...

Nate Butler is President of 'International Christian Comics ' in Albuquerque, USA.. He emailed me last week with details of the ...

You will probably have noticed the recently added list of 'Bible Artists'. (Green box, right hand column). I originally intended thi...

The latest Bible picture story to be added is the 'Woman caught in the act of adultery' (John 8). If you need pictures of this story...

I'm reading an excellent book that I came across recently by Anne Punton. 'The World Jesus Knew' is full of very useful informat...

I would be interested to know your views on the above topic. So I've added a poll for you to vote on, at the bottom of the right hand co...

A few years ago, we decided to involve the children who attend the church youth club in the painting of a mural, (with a Bible theme), to be...

An interesting comment was left a few days ago by Jason from North Carolina, on the 'Day of Atonement' post. Jason pointed out that,...

I was asked just before Christmas, if I could draw a large angel for our church youth group, as they were performing a nativity play. I alwa...

Searching for Bible pictures on the internet can be very frustrating! When you search Google for 'Bible pictures', it's possible...

For those of you who think that the 'picture counter' on the right has been stuck on 641, It's not! It's just that I've ...

If you are looking for pictures of the 'Nativity', click on one of the links below: New pictures of the Nativity: Part one. New pict...

Don't forget to check out the 'Bible picture site' We now have a new domain name 'www.biblepicturewebsite.com'. This wil...

I Found a couple of interesting things out recently to do with synagogues that might be helpful to other Bible artists also. 1). Synagogues ...

Continued from the 'Gathering Bible references' post./ Once you have gathered together references for figures, buildings and landsca...

We all know what Noah's Ark looked like, don't we? It was a big wooden boat with a big house on top! .......Wasn't it? We've...

#1 The writing on the wall When illustrating 'Belshazzars Feast' in the book of Daniel, remember to position the hand to the left of...