The Trade

What kind of deal is it to get everything you want, but lose yourself?

What could you ever trade or exchange your soul for?

Matt. 16:26 (Message Bible)

The American Dream or Jesus Christ Revealed...choose, you can't have both...trust me.
Either you chase after "your dream" or you line up to the Eternal Vision of God.
But if its only money you are after, you'll self-destruct in no time. An unhealthy lust for money brings trouble...going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.

During lunch

Just some drawings I drew for my daughter's class during their lunch hour.

Children are the best bosses, but the most demanding...I love it.

Science Project

In short, daughter had a science project...I drew water...awesome scientific visual!!!!

Not sure what she got as a grade, but WHO CARES...CARTOON WATER, ROCKS!

Caricatures Ode Week

No, this kid is not disabled...he's just silly.

And yes, his teeth and eyes actually looked like that on the picture he took

Students of my artistic teaching past

The Godless mind

The wicked man, according to the haughtiness of his countenance, says, He (God) will not require it (or judge his thoughts); all his thoughts are this: THERE IS NO GOD!

Psa. 10:4

A Fool

In my etymology studies of the word "fool," I came across an explained mindset of someone that deliberately degrades or withers mentally...someone that chooses death over life.

So to explain this, I drew this picture of a leaf cutting itself from the vine.

My point: From the time that Adam sinned until now, man is a withering soul; seperated from his true purpose and life...Jesus Christ.

CHOOSE LIFE

Teacher

For the next three months I will be returning as an art teach to help shape the creative minds of the local youth unto a greater good. I had classes in Dec. 2009 and Jan. 2010, I took a break in February (I got knocked off the schedule), but I got a call back for March thru May...pray for my strength in the Lord...children are the future, but can also be your end without the grace of God.

I even made the local paper: http://www.forthoodsentinel.com/story.php?id=2902

Cole Funchus: The Professional

YOU DIG!.

A Jerry Springlish moment

One of the best things about Texas is that people speak fluent Jerry Springlish.

Meaning, they making bold statements that contradict the obvious.

I actually heard a woman make this statement and immediately the spiritual fruit of "self-control" was challenged within me.

But God was faithful and I was able to make it back into my car to laugh myself into weakness.

Just lay it down

"...let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely...Heb. 12:1

HOW?

...looking to Jesus, the Founder and Perfecter of our faith...Heb. 12:2a

WHY?

...who for the joy that was set before him (and all that believe)...Heb. 12:2b

Notice: It didn't say stop sinning, it simply said to lay it aside.

The second you behold the Cross of Christ...you lay your sin down...they can't co-exist.

FYI: You'll never lay it down, if you don't know the joy that is set before you in Christ.

Harvest Time?

FYI: The gathering of souls (rapture) is based on the principle of "harvest." Mark 4:29/Rev. 14:15

Saints are divided over pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, and post-tribulation...not even seeing that they are both right and wrong.

In the Old Testament, there are three major harvest-times mentioned and in the New Testament, there are three periods of the tribulation that souls are gathered...they are parallel.

But the question is never "WHEN" will be the time of the Lord's harvest, but "Will you be ready for the Lord's harvest?"

Be ready and leave the rest to the Lord.

Choose Wisely

It is better to live in a corner of a housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome and fretful woman.

To all the fellahs seeking a woman/wife...CHOOSE WISELY.

Domestic violence goes both ways, breh (Prov. 21:9, 19).

Under the radar

In II Chr. 34:22-33, there was an ordinary little-known prophetess of God, named Huldah.

Reading about her, she reminds me of one of the "old mothers" in the Baptist Church, that told it like it was and didn't pull any punches concerning the word of God.

Huldah represents the ones God uses in a very mighty way to alter history, but is under the public radar.

She had the same word God gave to Jeremiah, so that also proves that revelation of God is not exclusive to the special, but to those who have ears to hear.

She would sit, religiously, at a specific spot in Jerusalem and she would minister God's word to whomever wanted to listen. Until one day, the king of Judah (Josiah) needed a word from heaven and he sent his officials to go and get it.

In one second she went from the wife of a dude that washed the priest clothes to spiritual adviser to the king and ambassador of God on earth.

In short, this woman's words caused the heart of a king to turn to God like no other king before him and in turn...an entire nation.

God bless the people under the radar.

All' Reedy!

I have been in Texas for five years now and there is this phrase that most Texans say.
So, to whom it may concern, would you please tell me what, "All' Reedy!" means?
Is this phrase replacing, "All Right...All Righty...All Right, then...All right, then, I'm ready...or All is ready?"
Or is it replacing, "O.K." and/or "You bet'cha?"
I'm not trying to be funny, I'm just really tired...and cold.

Caricature Ode Week

Here we are, mid-February, and I have yet to post a picture.

I threw this one out because I'm past due on a post, plus I've been busy.

My heart has been screaming for a new artistic approach, so I've been practicing/searching for a style to express the direction, I believe, God is leading me in.

So please bear with these pictures I've been posting lately...they are really pictures that haven't made the cut, so I post them just to show that I haven't fell off the artistic map.

I DON'T EVEN CELEBRATE VALENTINES DAY...so those "Valentine Rules" pics. is just me being "sarcastic."
They are actually my 5 min. practice sketches.

Here's a caricature couple of Sweethearts

Why I Hate Brats Dolls

I never realized why I hated Brats dolls, beside the fact that they look like little prostitutes.

After drawing this picture, I understood the "Brats dolls appeal," it was because they put a little girls face on an adult body.

Its actually pretty sick.

Valentines Day Tip # 53

Valentines Day Tip # 53: Crazy love will cost you, meaning, the phone bill will cost you, the text messages will cost you, the psychiatrist bill, the anti-depressant medication, bail money, collect calls from maximum security, lawyer's fees, property damage, relocation cost, witness protecting program, restraining order, loss of sleep, your sanity, etc...crazy love will cost you, so choose you love wisely.

Valantines Day Tip #37

Valentines Day Tip # 37: Due to my marriage, I have little to no experience with Texas women, but from what I've noticed from a safe distance...the firearm is carried along with lipstick.

Unique Features

I love drawing and exaggerating peoples unique features.

Chilvary is dead

Chilvary is either serving 25 to life or dead.

Unlike the movies, if you assume you're going to defend the honor of the damsel in distress with a few choice words accompanied with quick motion-stopping fisticuffs...you might want to get acquainted with your local judicial system.

I love my wife dearly, but I'll serve her better being a victim opposed from a victor...she'll get paid more.

Wind Chill?

"Wind-Chill" is man's way to manipulate the minds of the shivering naive.
These witches and warlocks of weather tell you what the weather is, then they tell you what its going to "feel like"...LIKE ITS ALL IN MY HEAD!
When did the weather organization get a degree in psychological hypnosis and begin to tell people that we shouldn't trust what we "feel" when it comes to weather?
"No matter what you think, little uneducated cold person, we are the only ones qualified enough to tell you what the temperature feels like.I know it feels like 24 degrees outside, but its actually 42 degrees."
LIAR! It feels like 24 degrees, because...it is 24 degrees...GET OUT OF OUR HEADS!

Valentine's Day Tip # 1

Valentine's Day tip #1: GET THE NAME RIGHT, PLAYER!

Caricature ode the week

I think I'll start doing more line-work on my caricatures...I'm diggin' the way it looks.

You'll see what I'm talkin' 'bout soon enough.

Glee

Laugh

Pose

Chin

Day Dream

Gaze

Rogue

Thick

Smile

Form

Goofy

 

Yo Fro, baby!

When I attended CIA (Colorado Institute of Art), my teacher encouraged us to start a product and then come up with a slogan, design, and marketing scheme.
I created, "Yo Fro, the all-purpose hair grease."
You can use it to clean your oven, remove unwanted carpet stains, lubricate your car, deodorize your refrigerator, and provide discipline to unmanageable Afro-Fros....because "If not Yo-Fro, then whose?" True story.

The Aristocrat

An unfamous quote from:

Semore Uptaious Winthrop III

Aristocrat, Safari hunter, lover of aged whiskey, beautiful women, and Kentucky Mint-julep Cigars

"I have great faith in fools; my friends call it self-confidence."

HA! Heh...humm.

Spydierman

Last year, I use to go down to my daughter's school and draw pictures for her class.
Well one day, a little boy from another class beseeched me to draw for him a picture of his favorite comic book character, Spiderman.
Without thinking, I said, "O.K., Elroy (I forgot his name)."
Now, because I no longer had a taste for comic book characters, I was at a dilemma.
I told this bright-eyed kid that I would draw him a picture of Spiderman, but I hate Spiderman...so...
I decided to take his debased imagination and lift it to the standard it deserved to rest in...I introduced little Elroy to "Dr. SPYDIERMAN, the friendly neighborhood Arachnologist."
After I gave little Elroy the picture, he stared at me for a very long time and committed to me that what I drew was neither funny nor accurate...Elroy never spoke to me again. True story.

Hunting down faces

Just some faces I observed while stalking quietly in the corner of a local book store...I was hunting for...the funny-lookers.

I spotted a flat-headed mustache man and the warrior-tailed round-faced shopper lady.

Doodlin'!

I gotta doodle!

Global Warming?

Uh, real talk.

Right now, its 50 degrees outside and within the next couple of hours, its gonna drop down to 18 degrees.

First of all, this is Texas...second of all, THIS IS TEXAS!!!!!

Al Gore promised everybody Global Warming, so either he lied or 18 degrees is the new temperature for hot.

Oh, Al...you got us, dude.

Mob-Love?

I never understood Mob-Love.

And for the sake of my protection, I'll leave it at that.