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sketching in public…

glaucia — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:01:41 +0000

always attracts attention.

Last weekend we were in Fairfax. While we were visiting Fab, Sr., we also got a chance to see some dear old friends. Ginger and Spinner lived with me in California, while I served with Steve Hughes and Yosemite Christian Ministries. As a matter of fact, they were a welcome respite to the loneliness I was suffering while living by myself in a double-wide trailer.
Anyway, I hadn’t seen G & S in over 10 years, and so we took a little longer drive on Sunday Morning, to meet them at their church.
While there, and sitting in the very last row, I sketched a few people in front of me.
Apparently, the couple sitting next to me took an interest, because after the service, the woman tried to invite us out for lunch and talked of my beautiful artwork. We turned her down, as we were going out with my friends, instead.
Here’s the drawing that commanded an invitation to lunch…

Now I just need someone willing to pay for these, and I’ll be in business!!

edm challenge #5: draw your bed

glaucia — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:49:38 +0000

It would be nice if my bed looked like this…

But my bed looks like this…

more often than not.

Oh well. It makes for a more interesting drawing.

church membership

glaucia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:34:02 +0000

Deciding to move from New York was a no-brainer.
As a matter of fact, it had been around 3 years of prayer, hoping for a chance to get out of New York.
You might think that is crazy, since most people are trying to get to NYC, instead of getting out.
Well, the thing is, when you have small kids and the playground is over a mile’s walk away and has scarey people hanging out, or when your car gets stolen from a residential neighborhood, or when rent is high, and you don’t get to change the color of the room, or use the backyard, or have room to store the summer’s clothes, or when taking the kids to school takes over 1.5 hours, you start to think there’s got to be a better way.
Having my own house started to sound really nice, and then it started sounding like a necessity, and then it became so far out of reach that I didn’t even want to think about it anymore.
That’s when Fabio found some job openings that really looked like a possibility.
Then the dream of the move became real again.
The process was over 6 months long, and I had a lot of excitement.
The one thing I couldn’t bring myself to think about was leaving our church. Graffiti.
I didn’t want to spend any time thinking about not having Graffiti. Even on the last day at Graffiti, I couldn’t bring myself to shed a tear. That would mean we were really leaving it behind.Even if we made frequent trips, we would eventually have to find a new church.
I knew that would be hard. I knew we would never find another Graffiti. But I also knew that God would go before us, and we would find a church that is right for us.
I expected the search to be harder, but we only visited some 5 churches before being recommended First Baptist Church of Perkasie by a friend, and once we visited, we’ve been going ever since.
Some days, I’ve shed a tear on my way to FBC, because it wasn’t Graffiti. Now it was time to cry. Somedays, I’ve cried just because I miss all our church family.
After about 5 months or so of attending FBC, we finally had a chance to attend FBC 101. It’s the class where the pastor teaches a bit about church doctrine, and overall church precepts that they follow here. It was pretty much what we expected, and now we know we are ready to join. We have to give our names to the pastors, and then we will be asked to give a brief testimony of how we came to know the Lord to the congregation. That will seal our deal, and we will then be members. It’s difficult to officially move membership away from Graffiti, but we know that this is the right step in being active in this local church. This is where we can now pour our resources, our gifts and our service. May God be glorified, and please keep us in your prayers as we look for opportunities to serve in ways that best use our gifts in this church.
Below is a pen sketch I did while attending FBC 101.

A taste of imagination

glaucia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:29:28 +0000

A couple posts ago, when I asked what people would like to see me draw more of, my husband mentioned wanting to see things from my imagination.
This, however, happens to be my weakness as it were. I can be imaginative when starting with some realism, or photo, but it’s hard to just make up stuff, or work without reference or real things in front of me.
Anyway, as it turns out, 2 drawings which I made in the last couple days were mostly imagination, but both were inspired by scripture.
One was a sketch I did while listening to the pastor preach. It was inspired by Hebrews 11, where the author talks about a “great cloud of witnesses.” This scripture has been a something which I’ve wanted to paint for a very long time. This is a quick sketch to get me going in the right direction.

Then this morning, while reading through the first few chapters of Genesis, I was inspired by Genesis 3:7, where it talks about Adam & Eve eating of the fruit, and becoming aware of things they never knew before. I imagined this picture, and I hope to make a small painting of it someday.

How’s that for imagination?

my favorite subject

glaucia — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:30:24 +0000

When in doubt, I love to sketch my husband.
I don’t tire of looking at him, and his goatee and hair changes always make for interesting drawings.
This sketch is the only decent thing I managed to draw on saturday, the first sketchcrawl date of 2009.

30 places – sunday school

glaucia — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:51:29 +0000

Not the people, the room.

I still feel weird when I sketch there, cause the people don’t know me, and I don’t know them. I feel like I’m doing something wrong, even though I’m not. Some people just assume you’re not paying attention.