We did it!!

In case you haven't heard, my band MADE IT into the new band showcase at Cornerstone Festival!
Thank you so much everyone that voted. We couldn't of done it without you!
Cornerstone, here we come!

it will never stop haunting me

it will never stop haunting me
20"x30"
acrylic on canvas

This painting started out as a little trading card I did during my ATC obsession. I liked it so much I decided to do a larger version. The painting shows me as a little kid in my room, scared of the dark! So many times I would see shadows on the wall and think they were ghosts or bad guys. I always had my panda with me, and he was scared too! I even had yellow sheets in real life, that was my all time favorite color.

Here's the original ATC:

This Is What I Was Meant To Do

This was the first painting I did with the little people with no faces. I don't know what caused me to start making people with no faces, but I love the challenge that comes with it. The goal is to try and cause emotion or get the point across with out the use of a face.

This painting is about how God calls us to be fishers of men. The hearts represent people. Simple as that.

30"x40"
acrylic on canvas

Jesus called out to them,
“Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!”
Matthew 4:19 (New Living Translation)

When it's gone, I'll get a new one...

20"x28"
acrylic on canvas
2006

This painting was inspired by a song called "Rice Paper." It was written by a band called Celestial Static that I discovered at Cornerstone Festival years ago. The song begins with the lines:

My heart is rice paper
dissolving and clouded
When it's gone
I'll get a new one
from the big rice paper tree

Listen to the song for yourself on their Myspace page!

London Girls

London Girls
36"x24"
acrylic on canvas
2005

This painting was taken from a picture I took in London obviously! I went there back in 2004 with a friend from my church. I took this pic while riding in one of those red double decker buses. There's no particular meaning behind this painting. I just thought the girls were cute.

Original picture below.

New Painting!

Nectar of the Heart
12"x16"
acrylic on canvas

This painting along with three others of mine will at the Butler Art Center's Annual Spring Show. The opening is tomorrow, Friday the 8th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm! Hope to see you there!

The Catacombs

36"x48"
acrylic on canvas
2005

This painting came from a picture I took at a local show here in Butler, PA. I was at a venue called the Catacombs, which is run by a good friend of mine. In between sets I noticed the floor was super shiny and looked really neat with the silhouettes. So I snapped a few shots experimenting with exposure etc. The pictures didn't turn out so well, so I just saved them to a CD as usual and forgot about them. A couple years later I stumbled across them again and thought, one of these would would make a really interesting painting. Voila!

Here's the original photo.

Believe...in Belize!

Here's a super old one for ya!

"Believe"
20"x28"
acrylic on canvas
2004

This is simply a painting from a picture I took while in Belize. I've been to Belize twice, once in 2001 and and then again in 2004. These were both mission trips through my church where we helped with a medical clinic, built and maintained schools, and ran vacation bible school. This painting was a birthday present to my sister-in-law who also went on the 2004 trip. Below is the original picture.



Oh! And I had a request to see the actual Dr. Martins depicted in my Self Portrait! Here they are! :D

what to blog about

I thought it would be fun to show some of my older paintings from long before I started this blog. I in the next few weeks (or moths) I'm going write about different paintings, what inspired me to do the painting and the meaning behind it.

I thought I'd start things off with my first self portrait.


This painting is mixture of myself as a child and as an adult. My hair, and clothes are more of what I wear as an adult. I love to wear cute little dresses with puffy sleeves and pigtails have always been a favorite. The Dr. Martin boots shown I purchased when I was in tech school. I still have them and wear them on occasion. The purse I'm holding is one I had back in 2nd grade! I loved that purse so much...neon yellow! The Panda is one of my beloved stuffed animals as a child. It was a prize at a carnival of sorts. I can't remember if I was the one who won it or my dad. When I got it, the stuffing was as hard as a rock so my mom switched its innards out for something more squishy! I used to collect butterflies and moths. My parents would take me butterfly and moth catching. Moths are my absolute favorite. We would set up a lamp with a sheet behind so that the extra special silk moths would come flying by. There were HUGE and amazing! The three moths shown were just a few of my favorites, the luna moth, IO moth and the rosy maple moth. That's about it!

Well, that was fun! Any requests for the next painting to feature? You can see all my paintings on my Flickr.