Illustrations for Redemption Press
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In this second illustration we see the woman speaking to Jesus with an attitude as he holds out his hand. (He is asking for water, and she’s appalled he’s even speaking to her, since she’s a Samaritan and he’s a Jew.)
Notice how only Jesus’ hand and arm are shown? In the previous post about this I explained how the author did not want Jesus depicted directly. The art direction for this panel was to show Jesus holding his hand out to the woman. So, that’s just what I did. Only his hand and arm were really necessary to convey the idea, so that’s all I showed.
Do you see the animals in this panel? To make the story more visually interesting, the author had me hide a butterfly and a frog somewhere on every page. I also included that cat in some of them. The frog and butterfly are both species native to the area around modern-day Israel. The Middle East Tree Frog and The European Common Blue Butterfly. I was more concerned with visibility than accurate sizing, so they’re both drawn larger than they actually are. The cat is just a regular orange tabby.