I stumbled upon a Japanese woodblock website and found these beautiful images and I wanted to share. I'd really like to look at these more!

There's so much to be said

You know, there's a sense of futility in saying "One day I'll write all the things I want to say, one day I'll get you to speed with what's going on in life." There's simply just too much! Thoughts on Obama's policies so far, thoughts on finances, job skills, family, and so on. I'm looking forward to some time soon when I can just open up the vent a little.

One perk lately, though, is that I was published in PRISM again; I worked on some more illustrations for a few articles! The image here is on the cover, which was particularly exciting, though also a very frustrating layout. I'm more into verticals than I am horizontals, so it was a challenge. I still don't think it was completely successful, but the editor seemed to like it well enough.

There's also two images inside the article, but I only have a link for one of them: here (PDF)
The other articles are also fantastic, and you should give them a read if you can.


Also, messing around with a number of other things... Got into two galleries recently: one at White Stone Gallery in Manayunk, and the other is the Heitmann Atelier & Gallery in Lacnaster. These are the first shows I've really been in since college so I'm really excited! It's definitely but a fire in my gut about doing more art and being intentional about going after galleries. It's going to be tough because I'll need to get stuff framed, and I have to do my on-foot research for galleries but I really want to start working on this part of my life more than I have in the past few years. Here are some things I'm working on..


Unsure of where to go with this, and even more unsure about the red I added.













This spins off of another idea that I had and trying to figure out how to visually represent if Mary had told the angel no. Generally, I like this. I wonder if I should leave it as is, or work more at it.








There are also many other ideas that I have yet to put onto paper in some format or another. I'm hoping I can do that soon- if all goes well, and by the grace of God, that will happen tomorrow when I go to the studio! But, in the meantime I must also focus my attention on CCO's annual conference, Jubilee since I'll be taking a crew up there with me. That's this weekend. I'm excited about it, as well as stressed, but more anticipating what God will have to say to each of the students that will be coming with me.... and myself. The conference revolves around the idea that every square inch of what exists in the world can be claimed by Christ, whether it's in the "secular" world or the "sacred" world. It's a place where students can learn more about how Sunday connects to the rest of the week, and how their faith connects to the rest of their lives.

It's a pretty great time of learning, stretching, growing... and meeting new people too!

So after the busy-ness of this weekend, I'm hoping to be more productive creatively. We'll see what crops up.