Deep Down in my Soul the Moon is Full

This is a blog cross over. I started this thread on the blog Transitions, which had the title Only Hope Can Know. It was originally All That is Left is the Color Red. I switched back to that title after thinking about it all week.

I am painting the four self portraits from the banner. They are like 36 x 24 ish, I don’t want to get up and measure them, substantial in size will suffice. There is another poem like thing attached to them.

The paintings are a cross over into mixed media and a break though, so my painting teacher John Pomara says. (he is somewhat famous in Dallas, which is cool, nice guy, the DMA owns one of his paintings.) They will be a break through if… I finish them and if... I keep the direction I was going that John picked up on. I didn't see it until he pointed it out. Used the world painterly, one of my favorite art words!

The plan:

finish them before I actually start mixed media in August like I told Greg I would.
The words I am putting on the paintings are:

Deep down

In my soul

The moon

Is full

One line per painting.
The meaning of this haiku-ish poem is simple;
It means I am content even when things around might not add up to contentment. I am soul satisfied.

Just the way a full moon makes me feel, any moon.

I am a sky watcher.

They are so very unfinished I don’t want to post them.

I will post the Photoshop art.

The portraits were taken August 2007. That is when I wrote the two poems. The paintings were started then too.

What's up?

The art status.

I submitted the painting Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil to the New Texas show. I have worked on it. Struggling with the colors. Since I started school I won't probably get back to it until Friday night. I plan to do a piece for the member show at the MAC.

Saturday I am volunteeing with The Contempory for an art event in the Arts District. I will be working with kids. I really like Diane Sikes who is their education director. I love volunteering for The Contemporary. I just have a great time when I do. It is one of those things I do for myself.

At church I met with the Children's director. I am doing art with the kids at our Freedom Fest on the 4th of July. We talked about me talking on the 5th Sundays. Making them an art time. I plan to meet with some friends to get input and start to put together a team of artists. The youth may be involved, I hope. I am very excited about this.

I am ready to start some colored pencil drawing and watercolor. They are florals which I took with my camera. The dream is to start my own stationery company. The inspiration is my sister Margaret who asked me to do a garden theme.

I was asked through my artist friend Brenda to lend two of my mixed media pieces to be used in Bible study at Christ Church in Plano.

Lots of art going on. Art Ministry lives... Because He lives.