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Exodus 1:11-14 (ANIV)
So they [the Egyptian people] put slave masters over them [the Hebrew people] to oppress them with forced labour, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with hard labour in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labour the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Afternoon.
LIGHTING NOTES:
The afternoon sun is on the right, casting shadows to the left.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
In the foreground, an Egyptian slave master (with leather whip in hand) is driving a Hebrew labourer (carrying a large bundle of straw reeds on his shoulders).
To the right you can see some Hebrew labourers harvesting barley, with another Egyptian slaver master behind them, who is directing two more Hebrew men with bundles of straw on their shoulders.
There is a large Egyptian sailing boat (perhaps a royal one?) on the river Nile, with a smaller boat closer to the shore.
Behind the far river bank you can make out people working the fields, including a person with a pair of oxen.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This scene takes place on the banks of the river Nile, the most important river in Egypt. I have included 2 water craft, a large brown wooden sailing boat with a smaller fishing boat in front of it. These are included to illustrate the importance of the Nile river to the Egyptians. [1]
The crop the slaves are harvesting is barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) [2]
The odd looking orange-brown stump, with pink flowers is a plant called the desert rose (Adenium obesum) [3]
I used some photographic reference for the Nile river, plants & sand dunes in the background.
[1]
Ships and watercraft in ancient Egypt were an important factor in the development of maritime trade and transport throughout the span of the civilization. Egyptian shipbuilders advanced from the most basic rafts to learning how to navigate the open sea, using their skills to gather food, conduct trade along the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, and engage in warfare. Ships also served as symbolic representations of power that are frequently depicted in ancient Egyptian art.
Ships are represented in ancient Egyptian paintings dated as early as 4000 B.C., but the artistic depictions do not reveal clear information on their details or construction. These early canoe-like boats or rafts made of papyrus were used for fishing and transportation, and influenced later wooden designs for timber construction. Timbers discovered at the Tarkhan site and dated to 3000 B.C. are believed to be the earliest known ship fragments, reused as roofing for the Tarkhan tombs.
(Source: classroom.synonym.com/ships-ancient-egypt-13098.html)
There is a good article about Egyptian watercraft here: www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/navigation.htm
[2]
Barley is a grass with a swollen grain that is similar to wheat that can be ground to produce a flour suitable for the production of bread. However unlike wheat, barley has always been particularly important in the production of beers and ales. Barley is the second most widely grown arable crop in the UK with around 1.1 million hectares under cultivation and today's varieties trace their origins back over 10,000 years to the first farmers.
Barley has remained a successful cereal crop because of its short growing time and ability to survive in poor conditions.
Barley is striking because of the long spikes that emerge from the end of each grain. These are known as awns. Barley is also easily identifiable on breezy days in the early summer when "waves" blow through the crop.
(Source: www.ukagriculture.com/crops/barley_uk.cfm)
The Old English word for 'barley' was bære, which traces back to Proto-Indo-European and is cognate to the Latin word farina "flour". The direct ancestor of modern English "barley" in Old English was the derived adjective bærlic, meaning "of barley". The first citation of the form bærlic in the Oxford English Dictionary dates to around 966 AD, in the compound word bærlic-croft. The underived word bære survives in the north of Scotland as bere, and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there. The word barn, which originally meant "barley-house", is also rooted in these words.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley)
[3]
Adenium obesum
A species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose.
The toxic sap of its roots and stems is used as arrow poison for hunting large game throughout much of Africa and as a fish toxin.
It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can also lose its leaves during cold spells, or according to the subspecies or cultivar). It can grow to 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.1 in) broad. The flowers are tubular, 2–5 cm (0.79–2.0 in) long, with the outer portion 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) diameter with five petals, resembling those of other related genera such as Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers tend to red and pink, often with a whitish blush outward of the throat.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenium_obesum)
Adenium obesum is actually a succulent member of the Oleander family. It originates in East Africa, from regions where it rains frequently in the summer, but is very dry in winter.
(Source: www.plantoftheweek.org/week001.shtml)
See this & many more cartoon illustrations on my website: www.biblecartoons.co.uk
Vietnam.
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose.
Ethiopia. Turmi.
Pachypodiums and Adeniums.
The name Pachypodium comes from the Greek “pachy” (thick) and “podium” (foot), hence, “thick foot,” as most species are caudiciforms and have bottle-shaped trunks. Pachypodiums are a genus of about 25 to 30 species, the majority from Madagascar and some from southern Africa. Most are shrubs, but eight species form trees up to 20 feet tall. Pachypodiums are related to the genus Adenium but differ in that their branches and trunks are covered with strong spines. Adenium branches and trunks don’t have spines. The flowers, which are mainly yellow but also red and white in a few species, form only on mature plants that are around 10 years old or more. In the tree species, flowers only form when the plants have achieved a certain height.
Adenium obesum (Desert rose, mock azalea)
Habit at Kula Ace Hardware and Nursery, Maui, Hawaii.
September 06, 2007
Desert Rose (Adenium obesum)
One of the prettiest flowers you will ever see, taken on this last day of August as summer's end is approaching, although we still have two more very hot months to go in front of us here in South Florida before it even thinks about cooling off! ~ Miami, Florida U.S.A.
(one more photo in the comments)
My balcony garden this is a desert rose or Adenium obesum
View on Black :http://swamiflickr.blogspot.com/2009/02/twins-macro.html
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Adenium obesum (Desert rose, mock azalea)
Habit at KiHana Nursery Kihei, Maui, Hawaii.
February 15, 2011
**PLEASE NO STRING OR MULTI-GROUP INVITATIONS!! ONLY ONE INVITATION AT A TIME!**
The beautiful flower of the Desert Rose, Adenium obesum, shot in the Desert Room of the Conservatory at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City. This plant is in the Dogbane Family, Apocynacaea, and is native to Africa, Arabia and Socotra.
You can learn more about this great institution at www.bbg.org.
A striking splash of colour in an otherwise dry and bleak landscape. Adenium obesum at Samburu National Reserve in Kenya is the East African sister species of the Southern African A. multiflorum (Sabi Star or Impala Lily)
Daniel 1:2 (NLT)
[The Lord gave him [King Nebuchadnezzar] victory over King Jehoiakim of Judah.] When Nebuchadnezzar returned to Babylon, [he took with him some of the sacred objects from the Temple of God and placed them in the treasure-house of his god in the land of Babylonia. [1]]
[1]
Hebrew, the land of Shinar.
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Unspecified in the Bible narrative.
LIGHTING NOTES:
Simple lighting from above left illuminates this scene.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
Various inhabitants of Babylon (very small figures!).
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This scene started out as an ink sketch, which can be seen on the top right hand corner of the “Map of Middle East showing Babylon” (see Maps section). I have decided to produce a full size design, which shows the splendour of the city and its famous hanging gardens. There is a lot of detail in this scene, which took a number of hours to ink in, and many more to colour up. I was keen to include bright coloured ceramic tiles on the walls which adds to the sense of opulence.
The carved stone figures on the walls of the building are based on reference photographs I found on the internet. The female figure is based on a clay relief figure called “Queen of the Night (Babylon)”, found in the British Museum. The nude woman has feathery wings and bird’s feet, with 4 sets of horns in her headdress. I have also included other popular imagery on the walls of some buildings used by the Babylonian artists, including lions and oxen.
I believe Babylon had a series of man made canals. I have decide to add a richly ornamented wooden boat in the foreground, moored near some steps, that lead into the city.
The bright pink flower I the left foreground is Adenium obesum (aka Desert Rose, Mock Azalea, Adenium, Impala Lily, Kudu, Sabi Star & Dwarf Bottle Tree). Adenium is a succulent plant in the Apocynum (Dogbane) family, and is native to the Arabian Peninsula, although it can be found in lots of other countries too. Adenium can grow to 3.3–9.8 feet (1–3 metres) in height. The flowers are tubular, 0.79–1.97 inches (2–5 cm) long, with the outer portion 1.6–2.4 inches (4–6 cm) diameter with five petals. The flowers tend towards red and pink, often with a whitish blush outward of the throat.
The green plant with feathery, pink blossom (behind the Adenium) is Tamarisk (aka Saltcedar and Tamarix) which is a graceful, hardy evergreen or deciduous shrub or tree which grows to 3.3–59.1 feet (1–18 metres) in height and forms dense thickets. Native to drier areas of Eurasia and Africa, Tamarisk usually grows on saline soils, and can also tolerate alkaline conditions. Its distinct feathery pale pink flowers make this very invasive plant appear harmless, however, it is often blamed for increasing the number of wildfires in a region and negatively altering wildlife habitats.
See this & many more cartoon illustrations on my website: www.biblecartoons.co.uk
In Brazil called “rosa do deserto”, in Germany „Wüstenrose“.
In several parts of Africa, the sap obtained from roots or trunks is used as an arrow poison. It’s popular for hunting game because it kills relatively quickly and after a hit they can only get away a maximum of 2 km.
A decoction of bark and leaves is used as a fish poison in Nigeria, Cameroon and East Africa. From Mauritania and Senegal it’s reported that this poison is used in executions and murders.
Medicine:
Partially combined with other plants it’s used for venereal diseases. A root or bark extract, used as a bath or lotion, is used to heal skin diseases and kill lice. The milk juice is used for rotten teeth and inflamed wounds.
More: www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=a...
Paris, France.
Our third day in Paris. We walked along the river to the Jardin des Plantes.
There were a couple of heated glasshouses in the Jardin des Plantes. The entrance to the main garden is free, but there is a small charge to go into the glasshouses. The main glasshouse is full of exotic tropical plants.
There is also a cooler, drier section for cacti and succulents. And in this cooler, drier section, various xerophytic plants from Madagascar ... Euphorbia, Alluaudia ... and many others.
Adenium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1819. It is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Adenium obesum is grown as a houseplant in temperate regions. Numerous hybrids have been developed. Adeniums are appreciated for their colourful flowers, but also for their unusual, thick caudices. They can be grown for many years in a pot and are commonly used for bonsai.
The sap of Adenium boehmianum, A. multiflorum, and A. obesum contains toxic cardiac glycosides and is used as arrow poison throughout Africa for hunting large game.
English: Desert Rose, Arabian Adenium
Scientific: Adenium arabicum (false synonym: Adenium obesum)
Arabic: أدنة عربية ، وردة الصحراء
Dhofari Jibbali: آصفيد
Taken on 8-Nov-2010 in Jabal Samhan, Mirbat, Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman, Arabian Peninsula, Asia. (For more information, check it out on the map)
This photo belongs to DHOFAR ظفار group.
*Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
*Edited by ACDSee Pro 3.0
Exodus 1:11-14 (ANIV)
11 So they [the Egyptian people] put slave masters over them [the Hebrew people] to oppress them with forced labour, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and 13 worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with hard labour in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labour the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
DRAWING NOTES:
TIME OF DAY:
Afternoon.
LIGHTING NOTES:
The afternoon sun is on the right, casting shadows to the left.
CHARACTERS PRESENT:
There are two versions of this scene:
01) (Previous page) Exodus 01 - Hebrews Oppressed - Scene 03 - Hard labour (Version 01). This is the original version, with bare chested Hebrew man.
02) (This page) Exodus 01 - Hebrews Oppressed - Scene 03 - Hard labour (Version 02). This is the newer, more modest version (specifically requested by a customer) which covers up the bare chested Hebrew man in the scene.
In the foreground, an Egyptian slave master (with leather whip in hand) is driving a Hebrew labourer (carrying a large bundle of straw reeds on his shoulders).
To the right you can see some Hebrew labourers harvesting barley, with another Egyptian slaver master behind them, who is directing two more Hebrew men with bundles of straw on their shoulders.
There is a large Egyptian sailing boat (perhaps a royal one?) on the river Nile, with a smaller boat closer to the shore.
Behind the far river bank you can make out people working the fields, including a person with a pair of oxen.
RESEARCH/ADDITIONAL NOTES:
This scene takes place on the banks of the river Nile, the most important river in Egypt. I have included 2 water craft, a large brown wooden sailing boat with a smaller fishing boat in front of it. These are included to illustrate the importance of the Nile river to the Egyptians. [1]
The crop the slaves are harvesting is barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) [2]
The odd looking orange-brown stump, with pink flowers is a plant called the desert rose (Adenium obesum) [3]
I used some photographic reference for the Nile river, plants & sand dunes in the background.
Here’s the scene in greyscale form, which I create before I colour up a scene, to get the tone (light and shade) right.
Exodus 01 - Hebrews oppressed - Scene 03 - Hard labour greyscale
Here’s the scene without the figures.
Exodus 01 - Hebrews oppressed - Scene 03 - Hard labour landscape
[1]
Ships and watercraft in ancient Egypt were an important factor in the development of maritime trade and transport throughout the span of the civilization. Egyptian shipbuilders advanced from the most basic rafts to learning how to navigate the open sea, using their skills to gather food, conduct trade along the Mediterranean and Red Sea coasts, and engage in warfare. Ships also served as symbolic representations of power that are frequently depicted in ancient Egyptian art.
Ships are represented in ancient Egyptian paintings dated as early as 4000 B.C., but the artistic depictions do not reveal clear information on their details or construction. These early canoe-like boats or rafts made of papyrus were used for fishing and transportation, and influenced later wooden designs for timber construction. Timbers discovered at the Tarkhan site and dated to 3000 B.C. are believed to be the earliest known ship fragments, reused as roofing for the Tarkhan tombs.
(Source: classroom.synonym.com/ships-ancient-egypt-13098.html)
There is a good article about Egyptian watercraft here: www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/navigation.htm
[2]
Barley is a grass with a swollen grain that is similar to wheat that can be ground to produce a flour suitable for the production of bread. However unlike wheat, barley has always been particularly important in the production of beers and ales. Barley is the second most widely grown arable crop in the UK with around 1.1 million hectares under cultivation and today's varieties trace their origins back over 10,000 years to the first farmers.
Barley has remained a successful cereal crop because of its short growing time and ability to survive in poor conditions.
Barley is striking because of the long spikes that emerge from the end of each grain. These are known as awns. Barley is also easily identifiable on breezy days in the early summer when "waves" blow through the crop.
(Source: www.ukagriculture.com/crops/barley_uk.cfm)
The Old English word for 'barley' was bære, which traces back to Proto-Indo-European and is cognate to the Latin word farina "flour". The direct ancestor of modern English "barley" in Old English was the derived adjective bærlic, meaning "of barley". The first citation of the form bærlic in the Oxford English Dictionary dates to around 966 AD, in the compound word bærlic-croft. The underived word bære survives in the north of Scotland as bere, and refers to a specific strain of six-row barley grown there. The word barn, which originally meant "barley-house", is also rooted in these words.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barley)
[3]
Adenium obesum
A species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi star, kudu, mock azalea, impala lily and desert rose.
The toxic sap of its roots and stems is used as arrow poison for hunting large game throughout much of Africa and as a fish toxin.
It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can also lose its leaves during cold spells, or according to the subspecies or cultivar). It can grow to 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.1 in) broad. The flowers are tubular, 2–5 cm (0.79–2.0 in) long, with the outer portion 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) diameter with five petals, resembling those of other related genera such as Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers tend to red and pink, often with a whitish blush outward of the throat.
(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenium_obesum)
Adenium obesum is actually a succulent member of the Oleander family. It originates in East Africa, from regions where it rains frequently in the summer, but is very dry in winter.
(Source: www.plantoftheweek.org/week001.shtml)
See this & many more cartoon illustrations on my website: www.biblecartoons.co.uk
The plant is native to East Africa.
Common Name: Desert rose, Adenium
Scientific Name: Adenium obesum
Family: Apocynaceae
English: Desert Rose, Arabian Adenium
Scientific: Adenium arabicum (false synonym: Adenium obesum)
Arabic: أدنة عربية ، وردة الصحراء
Dhofari Jibbali: آصفيد
Taken on 10-July-2011 in Ghiadh (Al Houtah), Rakhyout, Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman, Arabian Peninsula, Asia. (For more information, check it out on the map)
This photo belongs to DHOFAR ظفار group.
*Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
*Edited using:
- SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 SE (RAW)
- ACDSee Pro 3.0 (JPG)
This is the iconic and endemic bottle tree, or desert rose of Socotra – Adenium obesum ssp. socotranum. When you find one in bloom like this one you simply cannot resist taking a closer look. It is an amazing sight to see the lushness and bright colors in a landscape of dryness – it’s like an organic beacon of color and light.
This species is abundant on Socotra, and not one tree is identical. You can see trees resembling humans and animals alike, and some grow to astonishingly large sizes. To find a specimen with unique features and in bloom is strangely enough not so easy, at least it was not so during my visit. They may not be in bloom at all on one side of the island, whilst on another they might be ready to blossom or just finished. This specimen was one of few trees with almost all flowers fresh and juicy on a tree of beautiful shape and size.
Adenium obesum is a species of flowering plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, that is native to the Sahel regions, south of the Sahara (from Mauritania and Senegal to Sudan), and tropical and subtropical eastern and southern Africa and Arabia. Common names include Sabi Star, Kudu, and Desert-rose.It is an evergreen or drought-deciduous succulent shrub (which can also lose its leaves during cold spells, or according to the subspecies or cultivar). It can grow to 1–3 m (3.3–9.8 ft) height, with pachycaul stems and a stout, swollen basal caudex. The leaves are spirally arranged, clustered toward the tips of the shoots, simple entire, leathery in texture, 5–15 cm (2.0–5.9 in) long and 1–8 cm (0.39–3.1 in) broad. The flowers are tubular, 2–5 cm (0.79–2.0 in) long, with the outer portion 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) diameter with five petals, resembling those of other related genera such as Plumeria and Nerium. The flowers tend to red and pink, often with a whitish blush outward of the throat.
L'Adenium obesum è una pianta orifinaria dell'Africa meridionale, viene anche chiamato "oleandro del Madagascar" o "rosa del deserto". E' una pianta caudica, con un rigonfiamento alla base che serve ad immagazzinare l'acqua, per questo motivo riesce a superare lunghi periodi di siccità. Ha delle belle foglie di un verde brillante e dei fiori molto appariscenti. I fusti sono ramificati, di colore marrone. e' una pianta che ama il clima caldo asciutto.