// portraits //

 

Full portrait, as promised. I don't have a name for this one... Suggestions? • • #portrait #painting #acrylic #red #girl

A photo posted by nina derespino (@ninette1998) on May 18, 2016 at 1:06pm PDT

Full shot of Memories. Anyone guessed the subject? • • #portrait #painting #acrylic #man #green

A photo posted by nina derespino (@ninette1998) on May 18, 2016 at 1:07pm PDT

I've been getting into acrylic in the fairly recent past... I'm loving doing these portraits. I'm planning to do more, but I say that a lot and then never fulfill so no promises.

// painted in blue //

i've been waiting for some feels to write, but since none are coming i guess i'll write myself some feels...

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i am painted in blue, today

shades and tints of deep and fade

hues greenish and black

i stare at nothing

i blink

i feel if i were to cry

my cheeks would become stained

with oceanic ink

and if i speak

the words would drip 

with raw, rough sapphires

so i'll stay silent

yet even in my silence

i hear the color

i am painted

soaked,

seeped 

in a melancholy of blue

// valentine moodboard //

{ today's post was supposed to be some sort of project or pictures of my project, but that didn't happen. 

so i guess i'll throw together a little picture post, because it seems the easiest thing to do. }

  

//all images via pinterest //

// how to paint the painter... //

I was thinking earlier, on the way to church. I don't remember about what, actually, but somehow it lead to these thoughts...

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As a Christian artist (and I don't necessarily just mean visual artist, but artist in general) sometimes I struggle with knowing how exactly to show God in my work. With wondering how much I need to have all my art and music 'sacred'. And the thought struck me-

I can't really paint a picture of God. I have to try to convey his attributes somehow and that can be daunting enough. But rather He should be in the paint, in the colors, in every note and tune and word.

 And He will shine through the beauty, probably better than if I always tried to make everything somehow related to a Bible story or something like that. God reveals himself in nature, and beauty, in a totally different way than the Bible obviously, but none the less real.

So while I want to of course make art and music that is specifically 'sacred' or for the church, I think it's important to make things that aren't 'sacred' (although in reality for the Christian there should be no such line) and through them reach the lost in ways you might not be able to otherwise.

 Now I don't mean that we should be making things that are counter the Word of God. You can't be dabbling in music that is sinful or making sketchy(pun not really intended) art. No, no and again no. That is the farthest thing from what I mean. Not that we aren't all guilty of that from time to time. What I mean is excellent beautiful art. Art that still is, at it's deepest, as sacred as a sinful human can attempt.

Anyways there's my random musing of a ramble for tonight It (as usual) is not fully thought through yet, and I need to study it out some more, look at the Bible and so on. I'm so abstract with my thinking that I hardly ever get that far, which is something I need to work on.

 I'm going to post another haiku as well, because I love haiku's and they are really the only kind of poem I feel I can systematically achieve.

I'd love to hear what you think about the article. Do you agree? Disagree? Have something to add since I've probably missed something (I cannot for the life of me write well when listening to any vocal music...) I'll always love to hear anything you have to say!!!

// the color red //

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//crimson, scarlet, ruby, carmine, vermilion, cinnabar, poppy, brick, carnelian, russet, sanguine, red//