Maintaining My Rebellious Nature

Well, we thought Spring was on the way, but apparently we thought incorrectly... woke up this morning to snow on the ground! Weirdo weather.

I'm not letting this ridiculousness get me down. Today I wore a shirt that reminds me of home, and now I'm posting pictures of spring flowers (such that we have so far). Take that, winter!

Just some thoughts

Today at our Spring Day of Worship (a three-hour chapel service we hold once each semester) a major theme centered around unity as the body of Christ. I felt very convicted since I so often find my heart is completely off from where it should be on this issue. I'm usually non-confrontational, so I don't often get into obvious tiffs with people, but I let things rankle on the inside quite a lot. Today served as a good reminder to live with an attitude of humility and servanthood towards others.

This requires dying to myself every day so that I can see others the same way Jesus Christ does. 

As Philippians 2:3 puts it: 

In humility

consider others

better than

yourselves.

Chicago

Spring break trip to Chicago with Caitlin. Pure fun. =)

Outside the Art Institute.

At the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Neat place...

On the beach.

Beautiful Cait.

Justice Will Surely Come...

Acting on AIDS is an awareness/fundraising group on campus to which I belong. We're presenting chapel this week. Tuesday and Wednesday feature speakers and musicians and a video about what Grace students can do to help the AIDS crisis. Thursday gives students various seminars from which to choose, from interviews with AIDS victims, to missionary speakers, to response rooms. These are the posters and flyers (designed by yours truly) promoting the week and giving the seminar information.

Swing!

Grace recently put on a Big Band night featuring live music, dessert, and (of course!) swing dancing. My friends and I all had a complete blast! Swing dancing is officially one of my favorite things ever. It was also great to get all dolled up and simply enjoy the evening. Naturally, I brought my camera along; here are just a few of the shots we captured:

Hello, blog. Nice to see you again. At last I have something of worth to add.

If anyone is interested, the Art Club blog has pictures up from the Plein Air Exhibit... there are pictures of my artwork and, if you watch the entire slideshow, pictures of myself and some friends at the reception. Check it out here.

And now on to the new stuff: recent artwork from classes and commissions.

Still life for Drawing II.

V-day drawing for Amber... glad you liked it dear. =)

2-D design assignment #1... always returning to my roots for inspiration.

That's it for now. Maybe I'll actually take my camera out and get some photography sessions in at some point during this month... dang cold weather (and yes I should have used it this week while it was warm; oh well).