KGA

love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

woke up with this song in my head. YES

(Source: Spotify)

The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return

make sure that the people that matter to you know that they do. they can be gone in a flash and you wont ever get the chance again. tell your friends, tell your siblings, tell your parents and your grandparents, your aunts and uncles and cousins. its never stupid to love.

Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men’s sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to it’s faith, it’s hope, and it’s endurance.

Today is Vincent Van Goghs birthday. A lot of people know Van Gogh’s famous works, and obviously, that he chopped off his own ear. However, there is so much more to him than his fame.   Van Gogh was raised in an artistic environment. He had the benefit of attending several schools where he was able to learn from artists of his time. He mostly drew but it wasn’t until he was 27 and living in Amsterdam that he fell in love, had his heart broken and began to paint.  Van Gogh truly loved love, a quality that I find admirable and brave, however, he allowed his heartbreak to eventually consume him and he lost his mind entirely. The reason that I enjoy Van Gogh’s work is because of his background story.  A man who went completely insane because of his feelings and projected it into all of his paintings. I think that I would include Van Gogh as one of my “guests i’d invite to dinner.” He took his own life before he was ever noticed as an artistic genius, and I hope that he at least knows somehow how influential his legacy has been. I have been lucky enough to have the pleasure of viewing many of his paintings in person, and it wasn’t until I had seen it in real life that I truly felt the passion that was put into them.  The painting that I posted is his “Almond Blossoms.” It is one of my favorite paintings, for obvious reasons, it is heavily influenced by japanese prints.. which I love. “Almond Blossoms” was painted for his brother’s newborn baby son and depicts a tree that is known for blossoming at the beginning of spring but quickly dying. The blossoms are a symbol of new life, which is incredibly ironic because Van Gogh took his own later that summer. If you look at the painting though, you can see the love and joy that he truly did feel over the birth of his new nephew. It forever remains in the painting. 

Today is Vincent Van Goghs birthday. A lot of people know Van Gogh’s famous works, and obviously, that he chopped off his own ear. However, there is so much more to him than his fame.  

Van Gogh was raised in an artistic environment. He had the benefit of attending several schools where he was able to learn from artists of his time. He mostly drew but it wasn’t until he was 27 and living in Amsterdam that he fell in love, had his heart broken and began to paint.  Van Gogh truly loved love, a quality that I find admirable and brave, however, he allowed his heartbreak to eventually consume him and he lost his mind entirely.
The reason that I enjoy Van Gogh’s work is because of his background story.  A man who went completely insane because of his feelings and projected it into all of his paintings. I think that I would include Van Gogh as one of my “guests i’d invite to dinner.” He took his own life before he was ever noticed as an artistic genius, and I hope that he at least knows somehow how influential his legacy has been. I have been lucky enough to have the pleasure of viewing many of his paintings in person, and it wasn’t until I had seen it in real life that I truly felt the passion that was put into them. 
The painting that I posted is his “Almond Blossoms.” It is one of my favorite paintings, for obvious reasons, it is heavily influenced by japanese prints.. which I love. “Almond Blossoms” was painted for his brother’s newborn baby son and depicts a tree that is known for blossoming at the beginning of spring but quickly dying. The blossoms are a symbol of new life, which is incredibly ironic because Van Gogh took his own later that summer. If you look at the painting though, you can see the love and joy that he truly did feel over the birth of his new nephew. It forever remains in the painting. 

purple print set.

teal print set. 

Hair pin number one

Hair pin number one

Some of the skull brooches I’ve been making

Some of the skull brooches I’ve been making

This picture of Alf was on one of the reels that went into my viewmaster when I was little. I had never seen Alf the show, and this picture scared the living daylights out of me. I could never remember which reel it was on, so I would go through my reels and anticipate the coming of Alf every time I clicked the orange finger tab. Just like turning the handle on a jack in the box. When Alf finally did appear I would get that feeling that you get in your heart, when you almost hit another car while driving, that feels like a tiny heart attack, and then I would have to go do something else until I got over it.

This picture of Alf was on one of the reels that went into my viewmaster when I was little. I had never seen Alf the show, and this picture scared the living daylights out of me. I could never remember which reel it was on, so I would go through my reels and anticipate the coming of Alf every time I clicked the orange finger tab. Just like turning the handle on a jack in the box. When Alf finally did appear I would get that feeling that you get in your heart, when you almost hit another car while driving, that feels like a tiny heart attack, and then I would have to go do something else until I got over it.