Self - Protrait

I got a new book giving you ideas on how to use different types of mixed media to make "spill journaling" art works.

I took one of the ideas given in the book and tweaked it to my style.

The person is made out of old journal entries and random drawings. The journal entries were written in different hard times of my life.

The wording at the top reads: "Lift the Darkness."

Stars Go Dim vs. SGD Promo Team

I don’t know how I get myself dragged into these projects, but I do – ha.

A request from Sly:
Sly wanted me to draw her a picture of the band Stars Go Dim (SGD) vs the SGD Promo team. With captcha code (a MySpace promo teamer’s worse nightmare), raccoons and a squirrel.

So I came up with the SGD vs SGD Promo Team Dance Off! All the band members are on the left (Chris, Joey, Lester and Michael) and the promo team is on the right (Sly, Cheri, Paula, Eric and me). With an audience in the front watching (raccoons attend dance off’s if you didn’t know).

And we’re all playing captcha dance (it’s like DDR but with captcha code)!


PS – I don’t like drawing faces, that’s why everyone is ‘faceless.’ And I love the fact that Sly is smaller than everyone else; ha ha. And I needed a bigger canvas...

Tools: pencil, water color, paint, markers, sharpies and pen.

This picture was inspired from this picture: http://bit.ly/4F3Zv3

Lie Truth

“And you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free.” – John 8:32

There’s lies that have been told to us our whole lives, and because we have heard them so much, they have become true to us. These lie truths take bondage over us and hinder us from full growth.

Once we understand what is truly true about us & who we are and accept the real truths, we will be set free from that bondage and fully feel freedom.

Blog about Lie Truth's.
Video about Lie Truth's.

"The Wall"

This picture goes from left to right. The order is the top 3 and then the bottom two.

~The first drawing is a protected heart. A heart hiding behind a self put up wall.
~The second drawing shows the bad decisions that the heart made by allowing bad things into the wall. The bad things destroyed the wall and the heart became harden.
~The third drawing shows the wall getting torn down. The heart is still hardened.
~The fourth drawing shows that Jesus has torn down the wall and made it a pile of nothing. Jesus is victorious on the pile.
~The fifth picture shows that God has made the heart His home.

Full explanation of “The Wall” go here.

Deception – Decrement

I was listening to podcast about forgiveness and honoring. One of the points the speaker made was just because you’ve forgiven someone that doesn’t mean you forget and place yourself back into a bad situation. You need to have decrement and only place yourself in a good healthy place.

When this was stated, I envisioned a present. A beautiful present wrapped in colorful wrappings and a pretty bow. But the present was surrounded by darkness, where the present was there was a little light, but everywhere else - darkness.

Around the present were different signs to make the present look appealing; hearts for love, dollar signs for money, smiley faces for happiness, and music notes for joy. Mixed in with all the signs where question and expiration marks; trying to make the present look exciting and interesting.

Everything around the present was trying to make you open it. But on the present itself, on the beautifully wrapped present, were signs of death, poison and heartache. On the pretty bow were words of death, heartache, bitterness, anger, hurt, depression, etc.

The present itself was bad. It would bring nothing but hurt, pain and heartache if opened. But it was wrapped in something that looked inviting and happy.

Deception.

How many times do we look at something and think it’s grand, but in reality it’s not.

How many times do we open presents that aren’t good for us?

How often do YOU get fooled by pretty wrappings?

Pig vs Unicorn

My Picture that I made for Joey Avalos.

He wanted me to draw him a picture of a pig and a unicorn with laser eyes fighting. With squirrels in the background doing flips, flying fish and tree's coming to life.

I split the picture into sides the "pigs" and the "unicorns." On the pig side: the pigs, the trees and the squirrels. On the unicorn side: the unicorns and the flying fish.

The unicorns have laser eyes. The pigs have swords and armor. The squirrels have shields. And the trees have apples to fight with.

I set it up like an old school comic fight; with bright colors, word bubbles and a harsh divider.

I like it; will defiantly try this again, by actually drawing it out.