If you recall, I recently was asked to help design posters to be displayed in the toilets at my church. They are particularly prominently placed front and centre for the urinals, hence me dubbing them the pee pulpit. My first is shown here. Since then I have moved to digital creation, mainly for speed, but also for a little more impact. Herewith a gallery of the last few months of posters…

Positioning

A couple of notes on the creative process

I have used a combination of Photoshop and Illustrator to create these pieces, at 300dpi resolution ready for printing to A4 size. Background images are from royalty-free/free to use sources and then adapted for use. The stained glass image was generated in Copilot (AI) as I couldn’t find anything else that was suitable. Thanks to the AI-powered ‘generate’ function in Photoshop I was able to create extra backgrounds when changing the crop of an image – for example, in the Dürer praying hands and the bonfire image. A couple of the backgrounds also used compositing techniques that I have learnt doing Nucly courses by Rikard Rodin.

There’s also a difference between my normal Bible journaling: the selected passages for the pee-pulpit are generally much longer than the verse or part of a verse I would normally illustrate. This makes hand-drawing the posters too time consuming, necessitating the switch to digital. However, getting them ‘just right’ still takes a chunk of time (a couple of hours vs. a day or so is a good trade off though).

If you’d like to see the posters in situ, they are changed monthly and feature in the toilets of Whetstone Baptist Church, Leicestershire. If you’d like printable PDF versions of any of the posters, just drop me a message.