by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 26, 2011 | Praying in Color
Here is an Advent calendar shaped like a Christmas tree. Feel free to download the template here or click on the drawing itself. I like to take a copy of the 8 1/2 x 11 page to a commercial copier, enlarge it to 11 x 17 inches (about 129%), and print it on white card...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 25, 2011 | Praying in Color
My friend Cindy O. and I have been praying/drawing Advent calendars for several years. Below is a collage of some of our past calendars. We mark each day of the four weeks before Christmas with a prayer for a person or a meditation on a word. Words like” watch,...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 23, 2011 | Praying in Color
Here is my 2011 Thanksgiving prayer. The turkey wasn’t large enough for all of my thanksgivings, so this is my Group Gratitude prayer. Most of the people I am grateful for fit into one of these groups. I’ve probably forgotten a few, so I’m imagining...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 16, 2011 | Praying in Color
People do all kinds of wonderful things with praying in color to personalize the way they draw their prayers. Praying in color pray-ers use colored markers, colored pencils, basic graphite pencils, black pens, pastels, gel pens and drawing media I don’t even...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 9, 2011 | Praying in Color
On Saturday mornings the open-air Eastern Market in downtown Detroit introduces me to some wacky plants and vegetables . Last year I met my first Romanesco. Romanesco tastes like a sweet, nutty cauliflower. With its interesting logarithmic spirals and fractal pattern,...
