conch shell headphones.

i made myself a pair of these years ago.

i still have troubles creating the illusion of volume when i'm sketching from my head. i'm still working on it.

falling asleep.

bedtime story from joy luck club-thumbnail.
i'm not sure i'll get to actually painting this one since the semester is starting.

the orphanage.

photomerge.

i went to an orphanage in guadalupe, mexico last week...

this is the dorm building that our team stayed in. the AC unit is one of the few swamp coolers that actually worked.
this is a view of the kitchen where we ate our food and the shack/houses across the field. there were beautiful mountians visible beyond that. i didn't have time to draw them.

The orphans (especially a little boy named Christian) liked to watch me draw. They pointed out the things i draw and told me the Spanish words. I offered them papel and they drew smiley faces. It was interesting to see how Mexican children drew. American children usually draw 2 dots for eyes, an "L" shape for a nose and an upside down rainbow for a mouth. Mexican children (or at least all the orphans who showed me their drawings) drew faces just like we carve jack-o-lanterns. Two triangles for the eyes, a triangle for the nose, and an cantalope slice for the mouth. One of the little boys drew two rectangles touching each other for the mouth (perhaps for the teeth).

Also, the buildings at Rancho 3M (the orphanage) were brightly painted-greens and yellows and bright blues and reds. If i have time i'll add color to these pen drawings on photoshop. They are quite cheery.

My sister and dad on the plane home.

persecuted church thumbnails.

These were some thumbnail sketches from reading Foxe's Christian Martyrs. They were on scrap printer paper, so i'm pretty sure they will be lost in my piles of papers within the next few weeks.

This one is burning at the stake:

This one is about going to be with Christ after martyrdom:


This one is about mob attacks on children and the peace of mind that comes from knowing that this earth is not their home:

more..

i went to nantucket in june...

While waiting for my family to finish shopping:
pen & ink, brush pen added later.


While in the car waiting for Grammie to buy milk:pen & ink, brush pen and purple china marker added later.


View of our beach house on Madaket:pen & ink, brush pen, colored pencil, & china marker (just about everything that i brought in my pencil pouch)