Artful Friday: Crucifixion Paintings

Welcome, friends, to my corner of the web today on this Good Friday.
Many of us are keeping online time limited~
This will be a short post with a quick and easy
 but lovely craft idea for this most holy day of our Liturgical Year.

For today's "Artful Friday" post, I'm sharing a craft idea 

for the Triduum that my kids created.

 I was lucky enough to find this   

at one of my favorite blogs, that of  

the always-creative Mom, Nancy, at Do Small Things with Love.

Nancy's creativity and generosity of idea sharing

 just emanates from my laptop when I'm open to her blog!

My kids created their crucifixion art yesterday 

while we boiled eggs for dying and 

finished the final chapter of our favorite Lenten read. 

And that was it for calm and creativity this week!

Have a crucifix, watercolors and paint pad in the house? 

Of course you do...
Pull   out  the art supplies and take your crucifix down for a few minutes.
 Within half an 

hour from set up to clean up, you're done.

 You'll have beautiful Easter artwork to display!

We did ours a bit differently than Nancy's method.

My little guy created his as such:

~The finished product~

My older son decided to create his with specific coloring on either side of the cross .

He is the narrator  in our parish's living Stations of the Cross,
 which  the 7th graders will  present tonight. 
 The DRE has staged the Blessed Mother on Jesus's left, 

dressed in blue and Mary Magdalene on His right, in red. 

That's how he chose to bring color to his piece.

Also, he painted the paper first before tracing the crucifix.

Here's his artwork:

~The final piece~

Here they are, having some fun before heading out into the 

street to play stickball with neighbors.

Their artwork framed as centerpieces on our Good Friday table:

We'll move them onto the counter when we sit to eat.
On the menu: 
tilapia, mixed veggies, rice and Irish soda bread, 
before we head out to church for the Stations.

BY the way...All these craft and home photos were

snapped with this amazing camera, which

I received as Mother's Day gift from all my boys three years ago!

I love it...use it literally every day!!

Friends, have a blessed and beautiful Good Friday and  happy Easter!

For more  "Artful Friday" posts, 

you might like to click below.....

They're all here if you'd like to dust off something from the archives:

  

First, there's my son's super popular  guest posts on crafting rocket balloons,

 both of which include instructional videos:

How to Make a Balloon Dog

and

Shaping Balloons: A How-To 

I hope you get to click over and watch one of his easy, fun tutorials!

Autumn Decor & Craft  Round Up: 
30 Amazing, Eye Catching, Jaw Dropping Ideas
 for Halloween, Thanksgiving
 (and Fall in General!) 

"A Door in the Wall" Inspired Wooden Cross Craft 
for Holy Trinity Sunday & the Feast of Corpus Christi

Study of van Gogh

Wisdom from a Violin Master

Everything You Need for a  Cezanne Study

The Arts in Our Homeschool This Week

 ( knitting, winter crafts, the theater and piano)

 Lenten, Valentine and Papal Crafts

Mercy Crosses, Lenten wreaths, Rosary Making, Music Lessons

Strings, Keys, Sketches

Strings for the Beginner

Yeats, Joyce and Watercolor with a Little Vivaldi Thrown in!

Crucifixion Paintings

A Few Resources on the Great Composers

Let's Have Some Elizabethan Fun!

Forever West: Caricatures and Street Performers on The Wharf

Autumn Tree Art

Violin School: Ode to Joy

The Art of Giving:

A Parade of Artwork for the Impoverished of Honduras

Orchestra Concert and  Fools for Christ Christmas Skit: 

Violin Resources for Fun, Classical Study and Christmas Solos!

Costumes and Monsters and Raggedy Doctors, Oh My! 

Sewing Fun for Kids!

Light up the Night with a Paper Lantern:

Doctor Who Torch!

7  Valentine and Snowy Craft, Books, Games

Robert Frost Unit Study:

Poetry Notebooks, Rhyme Scheme Lessons,

Glitter Stopping by Woods Snowy Bottle, 

The Road Not Taken Collage,

Make Your Own Snowflakes and More

7 DIY Lenten Crafts & Books ~ 

Wreaths, Crown of Thorns, Mercy Crosses, Crucifixion Art, Books~ 

Perler Bead Fun: 

Original Designs & Stencils:  Batman, Dinos, Guitars, Animals

A Servant's Monologue in "Comedy of Errors"

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