"I'm on a rollar coaster that only goes up, my friend."

This week has been absolutely amazing and it was composed of the simplest of things that made it great. There were some minor bumps and setbacks, but if you look at the overall majority, it was pretty awesome. 

First up is art. Two of my pieces are being entered into an art show and I couldn't be more pleased. The first one is this tempera painting I did towards the end of December of rail road tracks.

I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out because, fun fact, I'm not a painter. I prefer a simple paper and pencil but it turns out I'm not terrible with a brush. 

This next piece that was entered is a tryptic which is a three panel painting that is usually used to convey a message, or, it was used to be used as a traveling story board so people over in countries such as Israel could travel around and tell the stories that are in the Bible while providing a bit of visual aid. Now as you know, I was greatly impacted by John Green's The Fault in Our Stars, so of course I based the tryptic off of it. The left panel belongs to Hazel Grace which shows half of her face rather than her profile to show her cannula better. There are quotes in the background that I accomplished by doing an image transfer and the quotes come straight from the book. The right panel belongs to Augustus Waters and shows his profile while he portrays his ever classic metaphor: "You put the killing thing between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing." He also has 'Augustus related' quotes in the background. I'm happy with the way this one turned out as well. Not exactly what I had in mind, but not too many changes had to be made to the original sketch so YEAY BELLE.

This week also brought a couple new future opportunities to the table that I'm super excited about, but those will have to be explained some other times... =)

On a travel note though, more details to an upcoming New York trip have been presented recently and I'm getting super stoked for that, more details to come as well.

I hope you all had as lovely of week as I did and I promise to write more into those briefly mentioned things soon.

-Belle xx