Saturday, November 15, 2008

Plane tick and Art life

Hello Reader-Friend-Family,

First off I would encourage you to check out this guys blogspot, many of you may not know him. Shoot I dont even know him!? His blog tho is encouraging, fun, and shows confidence in his call from God. God is using him in SAfrica so check it out with whatever moves you to do so.
http://jeffreydjohnson.blogspot.com/

Currently as for me, I am searching for plane tickets to Boston. I have found planes that depart at 7:30 and arrive to Boston at 3:30pm. I need to be at the YWAM base by 4 O'clock and that is not going to happen if I am arriving at 3:30 pm. I maybe leaving Jan 13th rather then the 14th, if I leave Jan 13th then it is no big deal because I can sleep at airport and be homless for a night. This plan sounds better to me!!! Seriously, I have always wanted to be homless. : )
This plan is still in process for those of you concerned.

I am growing in my artist walk, the Spirit has been talking to me about what I should begin working on in theme for pieces. I keep getting images that tug at my heart to bring forth to a canvas. Acrylic Paint is one of my art mediums that I am able to work well with and acrylic shall be a great medium for the pieces I keep seeing but the medium may change if a person directs me in a medium more fitting to these pieces.

I would like to write about two family friends that have been pushing my art to new limits.

Emanuel aka E, is a artist who has been helping me grow in my artist life with the visual arts.
E is teaching me how to make canvas by hand, the process is a sweat and precise in where and how to cut the wood. My goal is to become proficient in making canvas that artist would come to me in person and pay me to make their canvas.

I am also learning from E Screening which is a lot of work. He hasnt tought me hands on how to screen yet but he has been talking me through the process which is a good step. The goal with screening will be to begin making t-shirts for fundraising for YWAM as well making a living. E and I have been talking so long about designing t-shirts and here we are in steps to do so for the Kingdom.

In making shirts I plan on working with another Artist, Seth. I have been told his talent is sufficient in spray painting shirts. I like the raw look of spray paint on a shirt so this excites me.

Seth is a film artist, he has been teaching me thee art of film....haha that is a funny sentence and i am leaving it... Seth has been showing me how to develope story lines, story boards, the arch of a story that is needed to make a rememberable film. He began teaching me how to edit film, put songs or over lay sound on a scene. Seth lent me a camera that i can exchange the lens to wide lens, to a regular lens. The camera can increase or decrease in light, depth, and focuse of an object or image that I would like to capture. The best part is it is not digital and the sad part is I still need to get the film developed....

E and Seth's education has been a double H. Helpfull and Hurtfull-they push me in develpoment in thought, imagery, story lines, and a lot of physical work in concentration of what I am doing. I am getting a head-ache in thinking about but it is a discipline that God willing will use to benefit the Kingdom.

I have been learning how to dance as well and that is going amazing. Modern dance is a lot of fun and there is so much that the human body can do in movement. Martha Gram is one lady who was involved in developing modern dance, she has some meaningful creative dances. For YWAM dance is my second choice in area of art form that I would like to use, so i maybe preforming or something in YWAM.

Well I think we are both good on updates. Have a good time, thank you for reading. This post is a long one but good.

Peace out

1 comment:

Brandon said...

Hey Jordan, it's really exciting to hear/read about your YWAM journey. I know that God's going to teach you and use you in some awesome ways. It's also exciting to see how he's going to provide for you through the fundraising process. Thy and I are definitely going to The Whole Enchilada on one of the "Jordan Days." It'll be cool to hear all the stories from you while you're over there. What you already have shared is really encouraging to me. I'm glad you're doing so well. Praise be to him. Will hopefully talk with you soon.