Glad Tidings Coloring Page (Free Printable)
“Fear not, for behold, I bring you glad tidings….” A Glad Tidings coloring page for Christmas, that is. 🙂
I’ve been in the mood to decorate for Christmas, but still have a garage full of boxes from our recent move that need to be unpacked. So I’ve been setting goals for myself. Unpack a certain number of boxes before I work on some other fun project. If this, then that.
This morning, I sorted and put away contents from five boxes before sitting down to blog. It’s Sunday, so I wanted to share another coloring page today, especially since I’ve missed doing so for a couple of weeks now. Sorry!
And since I’ve got Christmas on the brain, I thought I stick with that theme for this post, as well. Today’s coloring page features a woodcut illustration of a shepherd watching his flock.
It takes on almost a stained glass appearance when it is colored in. Here’s a picture of mine in progress:
I use Prismacolor pencils for coloring. I like them because they come in such a wide array of shades and are so easy to blend. Also, they don’t bleed through the way markers can, so they’re perfect for coloring books.
Jesus is the Reason for this Season
Want some help focusing on CHRIST this holiday season? Then check out my devotional journal for the advent season, Joy to the World.
It is packed with vintage artwork, traditional carols, writing prompts, Bible verses, word studies, and illuminated coloring pages to fix your mind and heart on the true meaning of Christmas and keep you grounded in God’s Word.
This was one of the first books I unpacked in our new house. I plan to work in my advent journal all month long, as a way of underscoring the real reason Christians celebrate this season.
Like the other journals in this series, Joy to the World contains scads of Scripture verses to ponder, vintage artwork to color, simple word studies to complete, Christmas carols to sing, and plenty of blank space for recalling memories, making lists, jotting down gift ideas, recording prayers, and tracking your progress as you purposefully center your thoughts on Christ this Christmas.
T.B.H.
HELLO ! my guess is Theodore B. Hapgood
I am an Artist living in Massachusetts !
— PEACE Pro Deo Et Patria !! Go Army
Greetings from Theodore B. Hapgood
Artist: Theodore Brown Hapgood (Somerville, MA, 1871 – Boston?, 1938)
Date: 1930
Medium: Original Woodcut
Publisher: The Print Connoisseur, New York
Note: Theodore Brown Hapgood ‘Theodore Hapgood’: A prominent Massachusetts illustrator, printmaker, sculptor and designer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Theodore Brown Hapgood studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During his career Hapgood worked extensively in the book arts, both illustrating fine books and designing book covers and ex-libris plates.
Known for fine craftsmanship Hapgood’s art first came to national attention in the American Art Nouveau period of the late 1890’s. During this important era he was commissioned to design posters for The Inland Printer, The Century and Little, Brown and Company. In the early twentieth century Theodore Hapgood established himself as both a leading bookplate designer and as a sculptor. Greetings from Theodore B. Hapgood was obviously created by the artist for himself. It is typical of his great art where decorative design and balance are key elements.
The Print Connoisseur published illustrated articles on contemporary etchers and engravers on a quarterly basis from January, 1920 to December, 1931. A minimum of one original print was commissioned for each issue. During its decade of publishing such major artists as George Elbert Burr, John Taylor Arms, Frank Benson, George Wales, Paul Honore, Samuel Chamberlain, Birger Sandzen, Lynd Ward, J. W. Winkler, Preissig, Alan Lewis and J. J. Lankes contributed original etchings and woodcuts. This New York based publication was thus responsible for commissioning some of the finest original art of early twentieth century America.
The January 1930 issue was generally dedicated to decorative and illustrative woodcuts by contemporary American artists and included original relief prints by T. B. Hapgood (2), Paul Honore (2) and Harry Townsend (9). This original woodcut hails from this issue.
Thank you, Tom! Excellent work! All the samples I could find of that artist’s woodcuts are certainly reminiscent of above scene. And given the initials and similar style, I imagine you are right about his being the source of that artwork, too.
Hello! I love your coloring printable “I bring you good tidings” and I’m trying to find out who the artist is/was. (I’m a researcher by nature 🙂 – can you tell me how you found it? Where I can find the original? Thanks! Julie
Hi, Julie. I can’t tell you much about that beautiful artwork (except that the original artist may have had the initials TBH, which I left on the printable, though I found copies of the same work by searching Google images that had the marking removed).
As for where I found it: Almost thirty years ago, my husband bought me something at Office Max called Masterclips 101,000 Premium Images Collection. All those royalty-free/ public domain clip art files were contained on 9 CDs, and I’m pretty sure this image was among them.
The funny thing is that my husband bought it on a whim, long before I ever started blogging or writing or publishing anything, and I hadn’t the foggiest
idea what I’d ever do with such a thing. But I held onto it, just in case, and now I use that resource all the time!