Update from frustrating

So as everyone knows last week I was really frustrated after my constructing class and I have spent the week trying to make a whole new project.  I have a new idea and my professor likes the idea.  The idea involves a stuffed bear I have and he is on a golf course trying to qualify for the BGA.  Some of the images are really funny and make the viewer look closer at the bear and see what he is doing.  The images will be transferred onto wood using wintergreen and wow that stuff can set you free.  It also stinks up the house and no amount of candles and open doors can help to air out the house.

Also with my photography I really need to get out in shoot more.  I have a tendency to sit down and waste time on my computer.  I know I shouldn’t but I do.  I enjoy photography and doing art but after work and school I’m just so not in the mood to do any thing.  I also know when I start doing art work I feel God working through me and I need more of that in my life.  So to my readers I ask you to pray for me to get the motivation to photograph and do art so I can bring to life what God has done in me into my artwork.

Today I also read a blogpost from a dear friend of mine Jon Hamp and it was a talk about the follow up from his surgery on his knee and it really helped me today and I will pass on the link.

http://plantmychurch.wordpress.com/

Thanks everyone and God Bless

 

Frustrating

So right now I’m not in one of my better moods.  Yesterday I found out I had to redo a whole project in less then 48 hours.  Since then I’ve been really stressed out and wondering how am I going to do this and get it done at the same time.  Well right after work this afternoon I reshoot 72 photographs and printed 3 of them and started to print them onto wood.   But being stressed I really did not read the instructions correctly I screwed the first print up.  So now Im waiting for the 2nd and 3rd print to dry then put it into the wash then print on wood.  I admit I don’t handle stress and pressure well and it’s something I have to work on.

Catching Up

So as I said last week I have not posted any thing for a while and well my art work as of late has not been up to my standards for showing.  I will post it when it is up to my level.  So what’s new with me lots.

1.  My creative level is starting to go back up because of the two classes I’m taking in school.

This last week we had a critique in my constructing the digital image course and it went well and learned a lot from it.  I did something during the critique that I usually don’t do, I asked the class to rip my art to pieces by telling me all that is bad and needs to be improved in the piece because I’m trying to become the best artist I can and right now its the only way I feel fit.  It worked I learned a lot and looking forward to putting the improvements into my next work for the class.

2.  Kids Jam is the best thing that has ever happened to me

I know I said a little last week about vbs but that is just the tip of every thing of kids jam.  The group of people I work with is just amazing.  I just wish I had these people to work with every day of the week for a job.  It’s also amazing how these lessons are tailored for kids but I end up learning along with the kids.  Also two of the people in there are people I would have never considered friends in my life but they are some of the closet friends I have and to you two thanks for being part of my life and if you read this you know who you are.

3.  Friends

This last year and a half I have met some great people and formed friendships with a lot of great memories.  Merge has been a great place to meet people and its been a great life changer.   For people who don’t know Merge is the college service at Flatirons Community Church.

I have a lot more to say but thats for another blog.  I’m going to leave you with this

“Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the orphan. Fight for the rights of widows.”  Isaiah 1:17

Way to Long

So yea I have not wrote a blog in some time or put my art work up here.

1.  I didn’t feel like putting up my art work.  Don’t know why but I didn’t

2.  I’m trying to figure out where God wants me.

3.  Frustrated with some things in life

You see I’m still at the golf course and have been working at Fitz for five years now and its been a good job but it does not pay that good and I want to move out of my parents house some day and live out my own life.  I also feel like God has been pushing me to become a creative arts director of a church.  I love the creative sides of the church world and really want to do it for a living.  Also this last summer I worked a vacation bible school running all the technology for it and loved every moment of it.  With the vacation bible school it gave me a love for the creative side of the church again and also gave me a passion for writing again.  With my passion for writing again I’ve started to write again little by little.  I have several book ideas in my head and I just really need to spend the time writing them but have one problem.  SCHOOL!!!! Ah yes School I’m still in college and hoping to graduate in a couple years because I’m going to a part time student and trying to work as much as I can.  So to all those people say when am I going to graduate shut up and Im finally doing what I love to do and I know this is where Im suppose to be even at times I don’t feel like it is.  So here’s to me writing on my blog some more and posting my art work.

Also I feel like I’m heading into the right direction with great family and friends around me.  Also going to a new home group with 20 somethings at my church has been a great way to get to know some more people at my church

In Christ who still loves me no matter what I’ve done and still forgives me.

Bryce

Baby Dedications

Yesterday was one of my favorite days at church and those days are baby dedications.  It’s always so amazing seeing parents dedicate their little one or ones to the lord.  It is also a reality check for me because these kids will look at me for an example so it helps me keep focused on God.

Impact

Tonight I talked to a friend who I have not seen since high school and he has been going through a lot. He reached out to me which also surprised me. As he was talking to me he said I was one of his best friends through out his life since 5th grade. As my friend was sharing his life to me I just kept on realizing how much my time talking with my friend made an impact on him. Its a short blog but the point is just saying hi to a friend at work, in the hall way at school or just saying hi to a random stranger you don’t realize the impact you have on someones life. So who are you making an impact on?

A Goal

With the Olympic games coming up in a few weeks has made me think of a goal that I really want to accomplish in my life and no its not winning a gold medal at the Olympic games.  A goal I have is to photograph the hockey tournament during the Olympic games.  After the games is over I really want to have the photographs I took into a book.  Photography is a passion of mine and when I went to an avs game last year I loved taking pictures from it and had fun photographing it from where I was.  So now I’m putting my goal out there and to my readers and I want to know your goals.

Messiah Coleman

Last week at Merge I found out about a special little guy named Messiah.  He is only 2 years old and has a lot of problems.  He has several siblings and parents that live in a small trailer in Westminster.  The trailer they live in is a dump.  Flatirons Community Church came in and completely redid the trailer.  When the trailer was done last week the Coleman family moved back in and it was so exciting to see there faces when they walked into the trailer of the video they showed last night at Merge.  Then last night we found out little Messiah passed away.  This little guy that has so many problems and his life was just starting to get better with a remodeled trailer passes away.  Wow for me that is saying what? why?  God why would you do this to a family that has all ready gone through a bunch of crap and you add more on their plate.  All I can say is let the LOVE of Christ shine through this difficulty and let them know that God loves them.

Dear Lord.  I thank you for the heart that you opened through little Messiah Coleman’s life.  Now just bless and love the family in your loving arms.  Amen.

photography from the week of 12/28-12/31

Here is some of my latest photography from the last couple days

Project 5

I call this Sheep among Wolves.  It is a funny piece not to be taken seriously.  I used a personal photograph and added all the characters.