Never finished, just abandoned

"Art is never finished, just abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

I heard this quote recently and it definitely resonates with me. I never truly feel like I finish a piece but sometimes to move on to something else I just have to abandon it for a while. Sometimes I don't find my way back, but there are a few ideas that I can't help but go back to. This is one of them; Psalm 42:1 is what I want, sometimes I fall short but that's what I want for my life. I want my heart to yearn for God.

“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.”
Psalms 42:1 ESV



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Taking it slow but not giving up

I find myself up late yet again bent over my drawing desk searching for that inspiration I let slip away. I'm going slow on this one but I think that's a good thing. I find myself ruining drawings or paintings because I feel this need to finish it. Instead of taking a break, or thinking it through, I push when I should let go.

So after another late night I've got some of it colored. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to wrap up the background. But so far I'm liking what I see.

Missed it by that much

So the other night I was having a conversation with my wife, her aunt and her aunts friend when all of a sudden Wham! I have this great idea for another painting, and not only do I have the idea but I have this vivid image in my mind. I wanted so badly to run to my room and grab a sketchbook so I could try to catch this piece of inspiration before it got away, sadly I'm much too polite for that. So instead I continue conversing with them until they leave, all the while holding onto that image as tight as I can as it slowly slips through my fingers. But alas by the time they left all that I had was a shadow of what I had seen. I ended up staying up till 3am that night. This is what came of that. So moral of the story don't let inspiration slip away.

Starting back up

So it's been quite a while since I have posted anything on my blog, and I am working on pursuing my art more than I have been by learning and doing as much artwork on my own as well as looking into workshops and visiting museums and galleries. So I am going to start doing my best to post on here at least once a week.

With that being said, here is something that I did around Christmas time that I was very happy with. The idea had started from psalm 42:1 " as a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God ". I kept drawing different drafts of it because it never felt done. I finally came up with this one but didn't know what I was going to do with it. Christmas was around the corner and I needed to do something. for my fiance's dad. I knew he liked hand made things so this seemed like as good a time as any to use this drawing, plus I had a piece of wood that I had been waiting to use. When I gave it to him he was blown away and it was clear to me that the whole thing had been brought together by God. There were even some hidden meanings that I didn't even realize were in there, but they were definitely meant for him.

After I gave it to him I decided to continue this drawing with two others to make a set that will represent God the father, God the son, and The Holy Spirit.