Art...My New Direction?

Well folks, only 9 more days and I'll be through with my first year of college. It's been a pretty good year, but maybe I can expound on that later. This week is "dead week" where there aren't suppose to be any tests (even though I have one Wednesday) or big papers or anything due. You just simply study for your exams, which start Saturday and go through to Wednesday. Then it's all summer fun from then on out. Well...no exactly. I was searching around today for places that were hiring, but no luck. I'm going to take a painting I class in Ybor at the community college. I decided that I need to take some kind of art class, just to see if that's something that I would like to concentrate on. Because really, this scattered academic thing isn't working for me. I feel at this point that I need to be focused on one subject and I'm realizing more and more (or being reminded) that I'm a visual person and maybe I should just focus on art. Yesterday, for example, I was having dinner at Olive Garden. I went to the restroom and when I walked into the bathroom I was thinking how the tiles were sorta bland, and if I would ever want something like that in my bathroom. Then I decided that I would if I had some deep red flowers in there to accent the copper color on the walls...Ahhhhh! Ok...it was at that point where I was like, ok...I think I need to give art a real try. My eyes have way more fun then my brain. So art has always been an interest of mine, and I was so into it during my high school days, but then it sorta wore off when I got to bible school. So everyone...I'm diving back in! We'll see how it goes. One problem is that I'm half way to getting my AA degree and it seems silly to stop now. So i'll probably get my degree, then move on from there to whatever I feel led to do. And hey, just for the fun of it, I'll tell you some of my art history. It all started when I was 13. I just wanted to see if I would like painting, so I got a picture of Van Gogh's starry night, and painted it. I spent hours and hours in my room painting this thing. After that I signed up for painting at school. Then one of my very few accomplishments in life happened. When I was a senior in high school, my art teacher suggested I enter into a high school art contest that was to take place at the Tampa Museum of Art. So I gave it a shot. The teacher and I built a huge canvas in class and I took it home and prayed that I would know what to paint on it. I tried a landscape, but I didn't like how it was turning out. So then I used a picture I took of some roses and painted that. It was submitted into the museum and then hung up for all to see. It was pretty exciting. I didn't win anything, but I was just happy to see my own work hanging up in the Tampa museum. The summer after high school I went to San Francisco to attend a high school art program where high school kids spent 6 weeks in the city going to the Academy Art College and taking 3 classes. I took painting, drawing, and photography. It was ALOT of fun. It was great to walk all around the city with my big ol' art board looking like a real artist. Those 6 weeks really helped my skills, especially in the drawing area. Well then it was off to bible school. I had an occasional burst of inspiration...like asking Elizabeth to be my model and painting her outside, having an art class with some of the girls by painting a bowl of fruit, and the drawings for the school yearbooks.
Well, I didn't really know where this post would go...but it all led to art. Here are just a few of my thoughts and I'm trusting God to lead me in the right direction.