Offering Our Hearts

Here is a sketch I did while listening to a sermon from Calvary-Nexus. The Pastor was talking to us about offering our hearts to God.

Lamp Light

Reality Adorn Notes: 

We were talking about God's light, and Chris, who was giving the message, was giving us context of what it would have looked like at the temple. At night these massive lamps would be lit by people on very tall ladders. They were so big, that they would light up all of Jerusalem at night! This is what I thought it might look like. 

Falling Through the Cracks

Reality Adorn Notes:

During this message, we were listening about how there are those Christians who sometimes 'fall through the cracks'. We continues to learn that it is important that we help our fellow brothers and sisters who do fall through the cracks.

This is an image of Jesus helping us to help our brothers and sisters who fall away from God. 

Oliver Herring

"Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have the time to express. Play. It's a thing that we put on hold because we get distracted by so many other things. We have to make money, we have to pay the bills, we grow up. And these roles that we play, they're not real. But after a while they become real for us. Play is sort of a reminder of what that was like to be a kid. And in the end, we never loose that. I think it's always there. I mean, you carry your past inside of you, that's clear, so why should it disappear?"

-Oliver Herring

Art:21 Clip of Oliver Herring
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/oliver-herring

Why Do We Need Art Education?

I was looking at Art Education videos on YouTube, and came across this video. I love what this teacher is saying, so I want to share it!

What is Art,

but a way of seeing,

a way of reaching toward the unknown

It is not what you see that is art,

Art is a gap

that connects the light of a star

to the history of a constellation

It is a process of creation

where identity takes flight

where a single strand tangles with another

Relationships with nature define and teach us to value interdependence

We can say things with color and shape that cannot be said in words...

But together can Communicate hopes and dreams 

But we wonder... How?

Cultures Clash, Cross, Combine 

So it is through our relationships with the world and the thoughts of others

that a portrait it drawn to reveal truth from the lies sealed behind worn masks

Take a Lesson

Give it Freedom

And watch it Grow

Illustrate to tell a story... and explore a character's heart

Collage photos from a foreign land... and learn the culture

Measure distance and chart a course between reality and illusion

A child's imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were,

but without it we go nowhere

Art in school is

Diverse

Honest

Powerful

Raw

Sensitive

Alive

So without art, how much less will be seen...?

Here is the link to the Video if you want to watch it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_hUddNvR1M&feature=related 

Feed Your Spirit!

Matthew 13:31-32

"He told them another parable: 'The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planed in his field. 

Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and perch in its branches.'"

Pouring Hearts

Tonight during my discipleship study group we talked about how we, as christians, are doers and are expected to be doing things for others and for our church and for our ministries. We pour out so much of ourselves, we tend to forget that we need to fill ourselves back up with God's word. It is hard to pour out for others, when we ourselves are all dried up. We need to live in God's word, and always be filled up with Him.

Quick sketch, but I hope you get the idea. This is what it looked like in my head. 

UDL Collage

UDL = Universally Designed Learning- One of it's meanings is that teachers gear lesson plans to the many different types of learners [mainly Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic and Tactical]. Here is my collage assignment for the illustrating UDL.

The Act of Drawing by Edward Laning

"To make marks, lines, or smudges on a plane surface is to draw. The act of drawing is the execution of meaningful marks, lines or smudges in more or less permanent from. We draw with our finger on a frosty window pane and the lines evaporate. We draw in the sand with a stick, and wind and wave obliterate our marking. We draw on a blackboard with a piece of chalk and erase our marks to make a clean slate for other drawings...

Drawing can be a means of communication- a language- and we use it as such... What he is able to sketch out will usually be a pale and inadequate projection of the original image, but this feeble sketch will stimulate further imaging and the drawing will proceed to develop almost like a growing organism so that it sometimes seems to the artist to draw itself; the drawing assumes a life of its own, as it were independent of its maker."

I found this book in the CSUN Library and have started to read it! I have enjoyed what I have read and will be sharing new quotes when they come up!

Windy Tree

Reality Adorn Notes [9/16/11]

1 Peter 4:10

I believe that God has given me the gift of creating and drawing. 1 Peter 4:10 states, "Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God's grace in its various forms." Since I have been given this gift of drawing, I decided to use it to serve the children I work with by drawing their portraits for Christmas last year. Here are just 10 of the 16 I made last year.

1 John 1:5-6

"God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth."

Matthew 7:3-5

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank [log] in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank [log] in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank [log] from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."  (NIV)

John 15:16 (from passage John 15:9-17)

"As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commandments you will remain in my love just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life got his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit- fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other." 

1 Corinthians 3:12-15

"If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames."

Hay and wood burn in fire. The fire represents the purifying presence of Jesus Christ. These are the wrong materials to use to build my house. I need to build with top quality materials. 

My Blog!

This is going to me a place where I can post my artwork and the random thoughts, ideas and inspirations that go through my head on a daily basis. I tend to process the world through touch, sight, and sound. So this blog will be a representation of things that grab my attention throughout the day! I am also a very spiritual person, God is my #1!!! So some of the posts will be how I visually interpret the Bible, sermons and readings in my sketchbook.