Do y'all wanna see my first project

Hey! So I keep telling myself that the point of this blog is to one day spread my art stuff around. So I'm going to start posting all of the projects I do for school. Partly to make me try harder at school (because if I have to show everyone, I might try to make things look really, really good), and partly to let you guys in on what I'm up to.

So here's my first assignment.

The idea was to type something that you're interested in with the words "Canadian" and "artist" into Google and find someone who you identify with, or whose work resonates with you. So I typed in "Canadian artist identity" and Jen Mann came up. She's an OCAD grad, and I really liked her work.

Here are some of her pieces:

The next step was to respond to the work.

Here's mine:

Under my piece, I'm showing a verse that is important to me (Psalm 91), highlighted in my Bible from highschool. It's pretty marked up, and falling apart. Which I hope shows that I was never forced to be a Christian, and chose to be one.

The whole thing is about the way Christianity has affected my identity and made me who I am. It's not hateful, or angry towards it, it's an appreciative work about finding peace. Which I haven't really done yet, but I'm getting there. The struggle is real my friends.

Coloured Pencil on wood panel, 12x12"

Psalm 91:

91 The one who lives in the shelter of the Most High,
    who rests in the shadow of the Almighty,
2 will say to the Lord,
    “You are my refuge, my fortress,
        and my God in whom I trust!”

3 He will surely deliver you from the hunter’s snare
    and from the destructive plague.
4 With his feathers he will cover you,
    under his wings you will find safety.
        His truth is your shield and armor.

5 You need not fear terror that stalks[b] in the night,
    the arrow that flies in the day,
6 plague that strikes in the darkness,
    or calamity that destroys at noon.
7 If a thousand fall at your side
    or ten thousand at your right hand,
        it will not overcome you.
8 Only observe[c] it with your eyes,
    and you will see how the wicked are paid back.

9 “Lord, you are my refuge!”

Because you chose the Most High as your dwelling place,
10 no evil will fall upon you,
        and no affliction will approach your tent,
11 for he will command his angels
    to protect you in all your ways.
12 With their hands they will lift you up
    so you will not trip over a stone.
13 You will stomp on lions and snakes;
    you will trample young lions and serpents.

The Lord Speaks

14 Because he has focused his love on me,
    I will deliver him.
I will protect him[d]
    because he knows my name.
15 When he calls out to me,
    I will answer him.
I will be with him in his[e] distress.
    I will deliver him,
        and I will honor him.
16 I will satisfy him with long life;
    I will show him my deliverance.

Parasitic

I felt totally normal again.
But then the doctor called and confirmed that I do in fact have a parasite. I've been on a hunt for the past few days for the prescription (apparently city people don't contract parasites from the water).

So wish me luck.

Soup Catastrophe

Today was going great until right now.
We got our pictures, I'm doing laundry and tidying up, finishing up some homework, things are going swell. Aj and I had a nice morning before he headed off to work. It's getting around lunch time and I felt like making soup.
I found a recipe in the Good Housekeeping Cookbook and got it going. It was cucumber soup and I had one cucumber left from grandma's garden so I was excited to use it in something new. The recipe says to put it in the fridge to cool before you blend it, and as I was putting the bowl of boiling, yummy soup into the fridge, I dropped the entire thing on my feet.

I am so unbelievably sad about this. I wept for twenty minutes before I could even look at it to clean it up and have been sobbing intermittently since then. Aj's at work and I couldn't vent to him about it, so I just sat down to write this here to get it out of my system.

My feet are ok, but for some reason that soup was really special to me because my entire day has been destroyed.

Algonquin FOTOS

I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!

We picked up our photos from our camping trip this morning. They aren't that exciting, there weren't that many really good ones. It cost me $40 to develop them which sucks. But anyways, they're still super fun and I'm psyched about em anyways.

Also: If you click a photo it brings it up bigger in a slideshow thing which I find easier to navigate.

Jiffy Pop

Portage snack

Jiffy Pop first attempt

crazy rain

At home afterwards visiting the guys.

KFC.

In other news, my illness seems to have mostly ended. I get small tummy aches in the morning, but they go away with a hot water bottle and a cup of tea. So if it is Beaver Fever, I'll have more to come I suppose, but it's looking more and more like a wee virus every day.

I'm ready to get back to school and doing stuff again. Yippee!
Happy mid-September. It's almost autumn (which I love).

xoxoxoxoxo
HP