I've finished drawing my 10th Advent Calendar. After taking a year off in 2018, I was happy to do one again. It's been such a blessing for me to reflect, draw, and color using seasonal images and words, often taken from scripture, hymns, and prayers.
This year, with Advent starting on December 1, my calendar grid worked best with four rows of six, and a center oval for Christmas Day. So the Sunday spaces (where I draw candles) will occur diagonally. Each drawing space is small, about 1-5/8" high, and it may look a bit fuzzy or faded above. For a better view, click on the image.
If you'd like to see my calendar drawings from past years, click here.
- Copic markers
- Pen: Copic multiliner 0.3, 0.2, and 0.1 black
- Paper: Neenah
- Words and sources:
- 1. We are leaving ordinary time (My calendar each year starts with these words which point out the wonder of the Advent time, looking forward to Christmas and the birth of Jesus. And in the church year, our long season of "ordinary time" - the summer and fall weeks after Pentecost - has now ended)
- 2. Sometimes a light surprises (hymn)
- 3. O come Emmanuel, thou Branch of Jesse's stem (hymn, Veni Emmanuel)
- 4. I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert (Isaiah 43:9)
- 5. Await
- 6. Hope
- 7. Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight (Matthew 3:3)
- 8. Then you shall see and be radiant (Isaiah 60:5)
- 9-10. Peace - be still
- 11. Shine
- 12. Let every heart prepare a throne, and every voice a song (hymn, Hark! a loud voice! the Savior comes)
- 13. Rejoice with joy and singing (Isaiah 35:1)
- 14. Trust in God's promise
- 15-16. Patience
- 17. Brighten your heart (from an Advent blessing)
- 18. Already - Not yet
- 19. Savior
- 20. Every valley shall be lifted up (Isaiah 40:4)
- 21. Wonder
- 22. Grant us your Light (from an Advent prayer)
- 23. Glory to God in the highest!
- 24. Grace
- 25. Christmas Day
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