February 25, 2014 Faithful

It is not whether you are famous today but whether you are remembered in time.


Brainy Quotes

It isn't hard to tie these together. How many people became famous in their day but are forgotten in this time? The only way you would know about them now would be to find an article or something written down that tells you about them. How many would you remember even after finding out? Few to none. Why? Most have only sought the fame and not the remembrance. To endear ones self requires faithfulness not only to ones self but to all they say are dear to them. They that are remembered are those that are faithfully selfless. I would rather be remembered for that which I was unaware I did but was cherished by someone I did not know.  Heb 11:1 " Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen."

The New Jerusalem Bible. (1985). (Heb 11:1). New York: Doubleday.

Many of you have remarked on the hat in the last post. The hat was purchased in Napa valley at the Luna (thus the lunatic play on words) Vineyards when we visited several years ago. The link to the site is to the contact area. I checked the main home site but the souvenirs are not listed. If you are interested you can contact them to find out. I have had a lot of fun with this hat. It DOES get you noticed.

I think it might be fun to do a little experiment. I am currently working on a stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms. Most of you remember them as the people who sold the Thomas Kinkade stamps. I am currently working on the Clocktower Cottage image. To date I have been working on it for three days on and off and have used 35 different Copic colors on it. It is not half finished yet. Any who, I would like to share it as it is now and maybe twice more as it gets finished. Please do not copy this image from the blog. Thanks.

So far this image has proved to be very difficult because of its size and the detail involved. To get the effects needed several passes  of certain colors was needed. The foreground tree alone has 6 colors that I can remember and several passes of those colors to get proper effects. This is all in a frame area of 4 and 3/8" by 2 and 15/16ths inches. Because of the marker pens slight bleed over even on the best of papers I am forced to treat the coloring as a cross between water color and oil painting. In short carefully and with difficulty. The next post or two will hopefully look better than this but this is how it works. I am sure that by the time this is finished I will need half a page just to list the Copic colors. Stay tuned.
 I really have no other post for now but I really wanted to show you what I was up to. Remember to always LOVE THE DETAILS.