Give Them Life

In support of the Art for Elephants that some young artists in my school are doing for Elephant poaching and illegal ivory trade awareness with groups like  Big Life and some other international Organizations.
We learned a lot about the issue and some facts that stood out to me were at the rate of  elephants deaths now, they will be extinct by 2020. More info at: https://biglife.org/on-the-ground/anti-poaching do your research.
We will be having an art gallery in several locations like Gig Harbor High School, Tacoma Art Museum and more. along with an auction to sell the art in benefit for supporting the elephants. Dates will be announced.

Title: Give Them Life

Artist: Mesa Rose, 15 year old

11th painting

Palette knife and oil

Finished: March 28th 2013 

Remember Him

I love art like you should know by now but I wanted to paint something that meant more than a pretty picture so with my new found love for watercolor I thought and thought until I decided with the upcoming Easter Holiday  I wanted to paint the hand of Christ with three forget-me-nots in his hand as if He were giving them to you. I wanted it to speak for my beliefs and my motivations in life. So with much reverence and determination I painted the hand of my Savior, Best friend and Brother;

Title: Remember Him

Artist: Mesa Rose, 15 year old

Watercolor

11th painting

Finished: Early March of 2013

I am not a very bold person, I am not one to talk and talk and talk. I prefer to speak my mind in a way that is more comfortable, painting. I believe Christ died for me because He loves me. I know this because I have felt His hand in my life and I took the effort to find out for myself if it was really Him. The very mountains and stars scream of this truth. All we have to do is Remember Him, recognize Him :)

I just Love Jesus! He really is the Man! But sometimes I forget (bad me) ( I mean we don't see him all that much do we ;) We read all over the scripture how great He it to EVERYBODY (that includes you).

He never ditches us: John 14:18: I will not leave you ^acomfortless: I will ^bcome to you.

He freaking wants us to live with Him forever (which would be an epic slumber party, don't worry, its an open invitation): John 14: 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will ^alove him, and we will come unto him, and make our ^babode with him.
We read these without even thinking about them: Isaiah 53:3-5   
He is ^adespised and rejected of men; a man of ^bsorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we ^cesteemed him not.

 4 ¶Surely he hath ^aborne our ^bgriefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was ^awounded for our ^btransgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his ^cstripes we are ^dhealed.

THINK ABOUT IT, amazing :) He did all of this for US, Me, YOU. um, yea, best friend.

He really understands what we are going through: Ecclesiastes 3: 1-10 

 1 To every thing there is a ^aseason, and a ^btime to every purpose under the heaven:

 2 A ^atime to be born, and a time to ^bdie; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

 4 A time to weep, and a time to ^alaugh; a time to ^bmourn, and a time to dance;

 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

 6 A time to ^aget, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

 7 A time to ^arend, and a time to sew; a time to keep ^bsilence, and a time to speak;

 8 A time to love, and a time to ^ahate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he ^alaboureth?

 10 I have seen the ^atravail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be ^bexercised in it.

WOW :)

http://www.lds.org/?lang=eng

http://mormon.org/ for more info

http://mormon.org/jesus-christ

Finally

After the months and months of doing the Peacock I needed a break, something that wasn't so loud and bold to look at and was light to hold...so, I did a watercolor :)

Title: Finally

Artist: Mesa Rose, 15 years old

Finished: beginning of 2013

Watercolor was supposed to be merciless because if you make a mistake and put some paint where you don't want it, it stays there but I found it so easy and relaxing to work with. I felt like I was just slapping some water on a piece of paper like you used to do when you were young. Watercolor has such variation, you can make it soft and gentle or sharp and bold. It's lovely, try it sometime, you will lose track of time :)

Peacocks have Corn on the Cobs

So I finished my painting, another oil after working on it for just about a million years.
It is my 7th painting and plan to send each of the pieces around the world so someday people will try to collect all the pieces that dot the earth. (Sounds like a treasure hunt to me)

I have no idea what to do with it because it doesn't go anywhere in my house (according to mommy.) So as all of my paintings, it leans against the wall waiting for something exciting to happen.

      Mesa Rose

Squeakers

So I just got 8 chicks (don't tell mom, she thinks we only got 5.) Reminds me of kindergarten all over again :)

Iris 1st week

Scarlett

Iris

Scarlett

Miss and Sis and Lis (or something, I don't know they are my little broski's)

Archie the boss

Lis

Miss

Iris after two weeks of having her

Well, they are just wonderful bundle of peeps and poop and will be a wonderful learning opportunity for our family!

Pride

So, I had this idea for a painting that is not particularly my style of painting. I made a rough draft, it is  trilogy of paintings telling a story. It is very much up for interpretation but mine will be at the end. (A little Mover-Onner, the trilogy is called Pride Umbrella
Warning: we have no working camera currently in the house so daddy's old droid had to do

Sorry, this is sideways

1. The girl is covering herself with her pride (umbrella) blocking out any of the good stuff that others have around her
2. She is curious and sticks a hand out catching a droplet, she finds what joy it is and
3.  drops her pride and opens her heart and loves it

(simple version)

Coming this Summer.....

This summer I have goal, a goal to become amazing (semi-amazing would make me happy too) in the art of drawing people.
This was not me:


This was not me:


This was not me:



But this was:

Getting there :)

Progression

1st to last.

have I improved? eh, I actually don't know

Become Sherlock

So I have been kind of nerdy at the latest with well you know, so stuff like:
Genealogy
Indexing
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asdpalsgja
asdjkg;lajga
some other stuff
At first I was kind of embarrassed to  admit that "yea, i do genealogy" to friends of mine but I just realized,

If something brings you Happiness than why don't You Love Others Enough To Want them To Be Happy Too?

Don't ask why I didn't know that before, just me, making slip-ups with her foggy brain and all.

I would like to let you know that my family tree looks something like this right now:

A mess, I know

BUT THAT IS THE FUN OF IT, 

you feel  like a flippen' detective trying to figure out names and dates and where they originated. I don't know about you but i love Sherlock Holmes

You turn into this little spy, creeping into the past and bringing to life these old dudes that are unbelievably related to you. So try, its fun once you get going :)

"It will all be worth it."

I went and saw "17 miracles". Holy tear fest. I really really really liked the movie. Several things went through my mind as I watched it. It was about the Martin/Willie Handcart Companies crossing the plains. And the many hardships and miracles along the way. (so good, go see it) One thing I will share is this statement said from one of the members of the company:

Lesson Learned:

"It will all be worth it."

-Sarah Anne Franks (Martin/Willie Handcart Company)

That statement can be taken several ways. I won't blow the movie but in her situation she had to make a very tough decision and chose to wait to get married to her love so she could be sealed to him when they reached Salt Lake. "It will all be worth it." she said to her love as he asked why they should wait and told her the possible scenario's of one of them not making it to Salt Lake. "It will all be worth it."

The gospel can be very hard to live at times. Not just following standards and commandments that are already set in place, but often times the Lord has a plan for us and asks us to follow that plan even though it may not be easy. As such with the pioneers commanded to cross the plains.

I recently had an experience where I was given a very strong spiritual prompting to do something. Something that I didn't want to do. Knowing the outcome would probably end in a lot of emotional pain, people with hurt feelings, and a lot of frustration. I could not deny the strong impression and decided to follow through with this prompting. In doing so, a lot of feelings were hurt, emotional pain, and a lot of frustration. I still do not understand why I needed to do what I did but I know I needed to do it. The only understanding I can hold on to is that the Lord wanted me to and somewhere down the road it will be best. It was hard. Extremely hard. But, I have peace knowing I followed the prompting, and even though it brought me much grief I know one day it will have hopefully mended what needs to be mended. In the back of my mind "It will all be worth it." keeps running through. I have faith in Christ and know that one day this one decision I made will be worth it.

Living the gospel will all be worth it.

See this? This is George the hottest man on the planet (well he is dead now but you know what I mean) He sacrificed his life, his love to save souls and save his love and to get sealed in the temple. Hot


So yea, go see the movie.


I am so thankful to God for such a movie!

He made Me happy

Today I am happy

Perhaps its because I got up later than usual and went to a cycling class with my mom and  sister
Maybe its because I had just about 10 cookies
It could be that Daddy made his oh so yummy No-Bake-Cookies (in addition to then 10 cookies I already                            had)
Perchance it could be that I went to a my Ballet class and had ultra funzies there bringing back childhood memories
Perhaps its because I finished my stressful Spanish Homework
Or maybe, just maybe its because the Sun is shining forth with its mighty but oh so gentle rays. The Sun Came out today, and I am happy :)



            




Do you notice something about all of these pictures? They all have SUNSHINE!!
Sunshine equals love my people, its true

(am I the only one who feel guilty when they are inside when it is sunny outside?)

A Couple at the Carnival :)

I really really really want to have engagement or wedding pictures at a carnival, just look how cute these people are:

I think you know why now :)