Drawing the Bible, verse by verse
Interactive Web site allows anyone to log on and take part in an ambitious project
bq.. The son of a Southern Baptist minister, Patrick Hambrecht learned to draw Bible stories in Sunday school. Today, Hambrecht, who’s 29, still loves to draw Bible pictures. Except now he does them in art galleries, comic books stores and even the occasional biker bar.
And Hambrecht’s no longer working on just one Bible verse at a time. He’s trying — with a little help from his friends and the Internet — to draw the whole thing. All 36,665 verses of the King James Bible.
Hambrecht, the lead singer of the performance-art band Flaming Fire, came up with the idea for the project last year as a way to get people talking about the Bible.
“I love reading the Bible and talking about it,” he said, “and I wanted to do it in a way that seemed like sharing and not like I was being preachy.”
The Flaming Fire Illustrated Bible project kicked off last year with a marathon, 18-hour drawing session at the house of band member Lauren Weinstein. It was an unusual party for Brooklyn, says Hambrecht, who moved to New York from Nebraska six years ago with his wife, Kate. There was music, and some beer, but “the lights were on and there were a whole bunch of people with sketchpads, which is not your typical Brooklyn party,” Hambrecht said.
By early October, Hambrecht had collected 1,262 illustrations (with 35,403 left to go). The illustrations are scanned and then posted at the project’s Web site, www.flamingfire.com/bible.html. Some were collected at Bible parties in New York, or during the group’s visits to Chicago and Nebraska on tour. A growing number have been submitted by volunteers who logged onto the Web site.
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