Jesus Loves Even Me - challenge day 1!

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In my memory's eye, I see a woman in a pillbox hat, outside with children around her, and I think it was my grandmother, Glenna. She was a vibrant person as a young woman, and this person I see is probably in her late 40s or early 50s, and is teaching young children, and is singing. One precious thing about the Grandma who I knew as an elementary school kid was her singing and laughing. 
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11" x 14"
Painted with the finest quality heavy-body acrylic paint on acid-free, heavy weight Fabriano watercolor paper
Ready to frame

 For this February challenge where I will try to paint 30 paintings (or completed studies) in 30 days, I have chosen a theme of favorite hymns, old and new. And I plan to be recycling old paintings that have not sold or that I have become unsatisfied with as my substrates. I am actually really excited about that part because I love to see what happens when I use structure that is already present in an old work to build something new!

 So anyway, back to the hymns and Grandma. One of the earliest hymns I learned to love is Jesus Loves Even Me. It is sometimes classified as a children's hymn, but it speaks to me more now as an adult than it ever did then. And it was written by a man named Phillip Bliss - isn't that fun? Grandma used to sing this hymn with 'us kids'. This painting is one that shows Grandma as a teenager, and is taken from photos we have of her from that time. (I have attempted painting from these before here and here and you can see the original photos on those posts.) 
  1. Jesus Loves Even Me
  2. I am so glad that our Father in Heav’n 
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    Tells of His love in the Book He has giv’n;
    Wonderful things in the Bible I see,
    This is the dearest, that Jesus loves me.
    • Refrain:
      I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
      Jesus loves me, Jesus loves me;
      I am so glad that Jesus loves me,
      Jesus loves even me.
  3. If I forget Him and wander away,
    Still He doth love me wherever I stray;
    Back to His dear loving arms would I flee,
    When I remember that Jesus loves me.
  4. Oh, if there’s only one song I can sing,
    When in His beauty I see the great King,
    This shall my song through eternity be,
    “Oh, what a wonder that Jesus loves me!”

Romans 5:8 (HCSB) "But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!"

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