Can I Have More and More of You?

Golly gee and Merry Christmas from California!!!

This was a blessed time of presents filling our material minds and food filling our bellies. But most of all it is the love of the Savior Jesus that fills our hearts. What a bouncy joyful thing! 

I think of hot mugs sloshing in my hands, overflowing onto my plaid blanket and giggles. Laughter is all around mixed with ripping paper and stars. Always stars. 

God was good to me and my family. 

Is there anything I can say to Him that saved me that will suffice for his ultimate sacrifice? No. 

Thank you Lord, for your Son. 

And for you, my flock of internet watchers, I love you. 

Man, I love Christmas. It is a kind of ache how I love it. Maybe it is more the idea of Christmas that I adore. If that is so then here are some christmas ideas for what Christmas is about.

Love!

Snow! This year My family and I were in Los Angeles so I missed the snow horribly.

Perfect Beauty.

Sending off some christmas cheer for distant lands. Have a safe journey little tree!

Christmas is about lights!

Presents!

More love!

 Pj's!!

Yummy meals!

Cozy-ness! I so wish I lived in that little glen. Someday I will have a cabin in the woods by a lake, like the Blue Castle!!

Yet more love.

Cute puppies! It actually is for me because I own two loverly dogs.

Oh, and this picture. I really think Christmas is about cute guys , scratch that, Ryan Gosling wrapped in lights. He has Christmas light around him!! 

Jk. 

Any whooooo, have a joyous remainder of your Christmas season!

All my festive enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

Urban Opera

When I think of art I think of these things:

Love

Peace

Happiness

Challenge

Frustration 

Joy

All are emotions I get while at work in my tiny art corner, which is an absolute hash right now. I was making ornaments for the jolly christmas season out of paper and wire and all sorts of messy materials that leave tiny scraps caught in my carpet. I have stepped on a needle or two from sewing stuff. It's CRAZY!!

But I love it!

A few months ago I was deep in the heat of applying for colleges. I have already shared part of my portfolio, I want to show another part.  

The University of Texas required a photo section of my portfolio but I rarely touch a camera, it is not in my instincts to grab one the moment I see a beautiful view or memorable moment. 

Anyway, for this project I used my sister's old thrift shop film camera. Then I took her, my best friend Mariel, and my sisters boyfriend, stuck them in weird costumes and took to the streets of my neighborhood to snap shots. 

They turned out so awesome!! Unexpectedly so because the sun went down so I thought they would turn out pitifully dark.  But here they are in all their glow-y beauty.

I give you, the Urban Opera!

The Curtain Rises

The Confused 

Visit to the Fortune Teller

Fortune Teller has Ulterior Motives

All is Revealed 

Standing Ovation

There you are. 

Thanks for looking!

All my creative enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

The Life of an Artist

It is frigid in my room. Probably because it has three windows facing north with no seals (sp?). Thats ok, though. Something about cool air on my skin makes me feel at home. Los Angeles has never fit my personality. That is what college is for. 
Amid these last weeks, all my frantic application writing and Nora Jones listening, I have produced from my hands and mind some fine art projects. I do not want to brag but I am marvelously proud of my late night plaster binges. 


Slowly over many of those binges a portfolio was produced. I sacrificed time and friend time for this portfolio. 

A Late Night of Tallis Davidson:

Me in my half awake slave to art state. Yuck. 

Sucker Punch is a great soundtrack to stay awake to. 

Modge-Podge and books. My saviors! 

Among my many creations there were my masks. Yes, I made masks. BE IN AWE!!!

This is the mask of the three fates of Greek Myth. 

This is the Mask of The Spirit of Light and Dance. I am so proud of the feathers, hehe!

This is King Crow: the Courier of the Dead. Morbid, I know, but I can't hide my dramatic side. This is probably my favorite of the three. It has carnage in it. What I mean is that I had to rip up my Romeo and Juliet book for this. IT'S BOOK CARNAGE!! I almost wept, I had never even thought of ripping up a book before. It was a sin, please forgive me. 

One Thousand Paper Cranes.

This is a tribute to 9/11. I know that is a bit cliche but I really do not care. 

When my family visited New York last year we stopped by the temporary 9/11 monument. It was a simple building beside the scene of the tragedy but inside it was an emotional exhibit of the incident. What struck me most was the thousands of paper cranes that Japan had sent over.  They were beautiful. 

So this sculpture is a collapsed building with paper cranes flying out of it, freed.  I hope you like it. 

 I hope you like my art, it is for you. 

Thank you. Here is my enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

That Word I Forgot...

I have been gone a while haven't I.  Goodness, I feel like I have been through a year in a month, you know?


The number one thing is that I am applied to all my colleges. Except one. My dream one. But thats ok. I will be soon. 


Life keeps moving. It doesn't stop to celebrate your triumphs. Life is a distant relative, it is supposed to care about you but it does not really.


Oh, well. I am happy despite it's constant indifference. Do you know why?


Because it is December!! 
That means it is almost Christmas! Oh the blessed holiday of spicy scents and cozy blankets with hot chocolate.  Cookies will be constantly baking in the oven and I will be completely happy just to sit and read.  I will do lots of drawings and blog some more! 


Oh glorious day of Christ's birth! 


December rocks. 


Another burst from The Bursty Blogger.


P.S. I have more organized posts for the future but I had to start off with a random post just to get the hang of it again. Sorry :)

Something Wrong With The Daylight

The computer is a curse. Well, not really. I just find that a lot of my time gets sucked into its shining screen. I am either doing school or looking for delicious goodies on Google. Not food 'goodie' but images. 
Everyone has a different way of learning and processing things in their life. I am hands down a visual everything. I learn visually by watching and doing it myself, I process visually by writing or drawing, I try to bless people visually too by giving gifts of art. I love reading and watching stories unfold in front of me; so when I find a picture or painting that inspires a story I get really really excited!

Brooke Shaden may have a simple name but her photography is anything but. Stories are rampant in her images. They all have an underlying creepiness and dramatic quality to them. 

                                      

Golly! Every one of her pictures makes me start brain storming about what they mean and how I could turn them into a story. 

I actually have a story for these photos. I will practice self restraint and not tell it to you because I want you to just take in the uniqueness of these images. Come up with your own story too!

All my weird enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger

The Sky Is Falling!

Let me take you back in time for this post. Hop back to a week ago in Los Angeles on the 6th of November.  The day before my birthday, I was stationed at the work bench in a garage next to my friend Mariel(The Petite Parlor). We were making masks listening to good old Jack Johnson while laughing about boys ( yes, we are teenagers). Outside, there was thunderous torrential rainfall. The air was nippy and fresh smelling just how winter in CA should be. But suddenly, the rain-on-roof sound turned into a pinging hard sound. Wait, it wasn't rain! It was hail!! 

 Billions and billions of tiny ice balls were shooting down  from the sky. They coated the yard to make it look like snow, it was one of the most glorious things I have ever seen. The clouds had a purple tinge to them and rolled in and out to randomly show patches of a sunset sky. 

Logically, the first thing that Mariel and I thought to do was run out into the pelting pellets of ice. Smart? not so much. Memorable? Very. It was a wonderfully foolish thing to experience. I loved it!

Mariel enjoyed the extraordinary cold air, which is a miracle in itself in California.

 My feet :)

I had to share this amazing happenstance with everybody because it was just to beautiful to keep to myself. I mean, this is the closest we get to snow in Los Angeles, and it was so cool!


I wish beautiful experiences for you to this holiday season!


All my wonder-fied enthusiasm, The Bursty Blogger.