L'amour Fou

THE PAINTING IS DONE

Im proud of this though, you may not like it, its my first experiment with acrylics, i made some mistakes, i know so okay, without further ado here is Lady in Noir, an original work by Daniel Little

Forget Regret or Life is Yours To Miss

So lately I have come to terms with my purpose in this life, and that my friends is to love. God opened my eyes to everything I have found wrong with my life and the root of it all is the fact that I cannot love unconditionally. After opening my eyes, he opened my heart, and recently I desire nothing more but to love people and treat them like they are people, but I have screwed up a couple times in that there are a few people I am having a hard time even tolerating let alone loving. I pray for help there. I also have a hard time not comparing my love for someone to their love returned, but I am trying so hard to dispose of that notion that one must love me as much as I love them. I say this not to glorify my motives but to glorify God who is based on love. Yes, our God is a god of wrath, but beyond that He loves, you cannot become angry at someone for hurting themselves if you do not love them first. God never set up these laws of acceptance that we bind ourselves to, instead He just spread truth, there werent these heirarchies of hyprocrisy governing Him, I desire to be that way, I desire to walk like Jesus. I want to enter every relationship with no motive but to love that person as God does, and pray that God would work that relationship to his will. God's love is an unbelievable thing, my mind cannot fathom the love He bears, but that, I suppose, is why I am not God among other reasons.

I stink at expressing my thoughts.

I Don't Sleep, I Don't Count Sheep, I Just Talk to the Shepherd

I never knew life could hold a thrill behind every moment until only recently when I realized life wasn't about me. I never felt how much other people hurt until I stopped looking at my own pain. In this life I don't think I want anymore than for someone to see, or listen, or experience something in my work that helps them, just one person, if I one person's life changes because of mine then my life isn't a waste. That sounds terribly self-gratifying, but lately I so desperately just want to love people and be with them and know them, and have some effect on one person just to know I haven't wasted my life on myself. This is God's life and I should use it for beauty and love, not the garbage I've used it for thus far. This life is temporary, I need to do something with it that means more than the sum of myself. All I want now is to love, and through that love express God and his beauty, sorta as brock connected in his blog. I want to make movies and paint pictures that make someone know beauty and feel not so alone in such a large, expansive, and ultimately isolating world, I want to express who He is in my art and live for Him and through that live for others. When I get married I want to cherish my wife with every moment, I want to let her know daily that my heart is her heart and we are one in God who makes the relationship possible. When I die I want to die knowing that this life was not mine, but it was a life of the people who loved me and who I loved, I want to know that this was God through me. This is my official apology to those who have been neglected or hurt by me in my selfishness, I am changing, that's all I can offer, please accept it.

watercolors

A Little Poetry

They danced around us
as thousands of snowflakes,
uniform in shape,
but bursting inside
as seperate souls.
We were yearning
for an eternity in the snow
that built up around us.
Thousands of miles
of endless
white.
Thousands of moments
of endless
words
that spoke like prophets
to the winds
of desperation.
These were the winters
that held our hearts
and felt our hurt.
These were the seasons
of renewal in death.
These moments,
These hours, these days, these weeks,
months,
and years were ours.
And we were one in
the silence of
white.

This post requires no title but essentially i am giving it one saying it doesn't need one.

just some photoshop tomfoolery

Well...Here is the Logo

these are 2 choices for the logo of my current artwork starting with the painting I've been working on which I've prematurely titled "Lady in Noir" which is appropriate to the title of the series which is simply Noir. So here they are(the second is a dress).

Sometimes the World Isn't as Bad as it Seems

There have been many nights lately where I've laid awake thinking "I'm so lonely." There have been many instances where it felt like everyone was in on a secret and wouldn't tell me. I don't know if all that's true, I know that if it is at all I've caused it to be that way. I feel my friends pull away, and I feel myself pull away from God, but last night His hand held me tight and I was unable to pull away, and for the first time I felt a true life passion and I felt like God just began burning through me again. Don't think it was some big emotional ceremony of blue flames and angels, it was me laying in bed praying my savior to just help me not feel lonely anymore and He gave me something more. I know, I know, everyone can say this and God knows I have said it before, but I am dead to my old self, I have to be, if I choose to regress I become stagnant not only spiritually but emotionally, I lose direction and purpose, I lose site of my passions and gifts. I lose site of the world and people around me and begin to slip and no matter how I reach for those people I still kill myself. I am sorry for losing our friendship. This is my time of change, it's a new year, it's a new beginning. Start new.

the woman is done...minus a few touch ups

more progress