Paint, Comics, Easter.

Back on Campus, I went home this weekend which was good, very relaxing. I got a little work done too, I sent a piece of mail art out and did another painting, I've had some success with starting my comic collection too.

I finally went to the comic shop in my home town, it was going out of business and I was a little disappointing in their stock. It hardly had any trade paperbacks and I didn't want to buy disconnected issues. I ordered a trade paperback of the Uncanny X-Men Dark Phenix Saga offline however and a friend directed me to http://www.comicspriceguide.com/. The thing I'm most excited about however is an uncle of mine dropped off some old comics from the 60's and one of them was uncanny x-men #23! Which I probably would have had to drop about 50 or 60 buck if I wanted to buy it. 

Church was good on Easter morning too and it gave me some inspiration for a piece that's still floating around in my head. I don't know if anyone reading this has the same thing happened to them with their holy book, but I'll frequently hear or read scripture that I'm familiar with, can almost recite verbatim, but somewhere in the middle of this scripture that I've heard or read a thousand times there will be a line that I had no idea was there. That happened to me at church this Easter, the speaker was reciting from Revelation about the saints and living creatures surrounding the lamb who was slain and and the seal that could not be broken except for the lion of Judah, etc. etc. ... I was very familiar with all of this and nothing struck me as new or unexpected, until they read that the lamb had seven horns and seven eyes representing the seven spirits of the Lord sent out to the earth. I had never heard that before, well, I had, but for some reason it had never stuck. Anyway, I think that those lines could lend themselves to some really interesting visual imagery so I'm going to attempt a few paintings based upon it.