Hand Painted Birthday Saints

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Hand Painted Birthday Saints

St Philomena- for Eden

At the moment I am in the middle of painting my figures for the Wooden Folk Exchange.
This reminded me I had never done a complete post on the birthday saints I have made through out the year for our family.

I have mentioned before how much I love this craft and really that is good because have no real artistic ability at all.
I usually print out the image of the saint, or it could be any other person and use this as a guide to the colours and objects I want to feature. Sometimes this is hard and they do not turn out exactly how I want them to.

I am really enjoying painting my figures for the exchange and writing the story for them as well.
I have other plans for painting, that I am most keen to start as well, and I really do recommend this craft for even the most craft challenged or art challenged like me. It is quite addictive!!

So here are our saints so far since April 2010

Our Lady of Lourdes

St Leo the Great - Corbyn

Our Lady of Altagracia

St Rose of Cascia- this is for me for my Patron Saint of the year.

St Joseph Yuen- for Rogan

St Dymphna- for Moran

St Stephen- for Stephen

St Ermangilde- for Myffwyn

St Brigid of Ireland- for Autumn

Padre Pio- for Kynan

St John Vianney- for Saxon

Mother Teresa- for Vellvin

St Gerard Majella- for Braedon

St Elizabeth of Hungary- for Arwen this year.

For those of you who have never seen the ones I made for our Alphabet Path here they are as well.

Here is our complete listing of the Alphabet of Saints to use along with our Alphabet Path studies,
I used An Alphabet of Catholic Saints as a guide along with Jessica's and Blair's already painted Saints.