The Joy's and Pain's of having a Creative Mind.

Greetings Comrades,


Well, I know been sometime since my last post.   Life has been crazy to say the least,  been trying find a job.   Just finished up with design school,   so out there trying find something bring in money.  It hard,  I  don't care what the  guy's in D.C. tell you.    I haven't seen  much change in the job market, but then again I also been having that feeling that God telling there a different path.   

Which I think is building my own business's,  so the goal is to build these business's  to be like a garden.  Each to be a supply of food,  i.e. money to build my life on.      Now  I have 2 things that  I working on,  one Serenity Design which is my Interior Design business,   Then there Leonardo's Workshop and that more my artwork and pet design projects.    Then there Bonnie Blue Inc.,  this more about living and thinking as a individual and living independent.  Then there the random bubbles that pop up in my head in a day.   Which is cool,  being that  I have a creative mind.  But here the down side,  sometimes my mind falls in love with a random bubble and then down the yellow brick road we go.

The next thing I know off track,  I become and then all I set out to do that day is lost.  So been trying to focus and  build on centering myself.   If anyone has ideas to help,  please feel free to share.  After all it would make me feel like,  I'm not just being Howard Hughes and running around the house with tissue boxes on my feet.   LOL, see photo to get my point.   So that where the magic bus is at today in the cross roads of life,  still  looking for the Divine in all things.

God Bless and  may you walk with joy in your heart.

Lenny

"Winter birds "oil pastel drawing I did back in 1994 spending at my mothers and fathers for years that I've highly got a hold of after my mother's death just finally decided to take a photo of it and post it.

CHILD

Having a hard time sleeping tonight, it likes 3:15am. I just can't sleep thanks to my sister-in law. Basically she kicking Sarah and I out into the street come Feb. 15th. Sometimes it just hard to understand, why so much rain has fallen into Sarah’s and my life this past 2 years. Not sure what we're going to do. But I have learned this, it just hard to forgive people.

I so can see why someone could walk into a building and start shoot up people; because if it wasn't for Sarah teaching me to forgive and being that center stone of faith in my life, I would be something so dark and evil that no would be safe from. Maybe the one thing we all should remember is this is to stop being so self-centered, maybe take some time and care about other people for once in life. Just maybe, with that little bit of charity, we can change the heart and soul of a person and maybe ready to step into the darkest parts of their soul.

After all the line between good and evil, isn't out in the world some place, that we can see to not step over that line. No, that line runs down middle of man's hearts. Can you live knowing your actions may be the one thing that push's a person over that line. I know God forgives, but he will pass judgment

It funny, I been exploring" The Soul of Man" idea for the next group of paintings. Like this issue I talked about here, how basically someone’s one little action can start a chain of events that can push another person over the line into doing an evil act. But today at Mass, I just focused in on asking the Divine to forgive those that have hurt me, to help heal my soul of it’s hate. I have come to understand this, what others have done to me may have been a nail or even a spear into Christ’s hand or side, but you must forgive that and give love, for if you don't, then you will start on a dark path.

But still this doesn’t change what was done. One should not for get those things. But learn from them, make sure to think things through before acting and what the reactions will be. That is part of what the Divine was talking about when we need to put away the ways of a child. A child only thinks of themselves and not of others. They need to learn how to give, how to love others outside of themselves.

This is the sin of pride. Those that cannot see it, for what it is, will be doomed to live that sin out over and over again.  They will see their life, fall apart over and over again.

“Greed”

Here one the first lines of  thoughts for my look into "The Soul of Man" series.

“Greed”

Greed is the first part of this visit into the human heart. A little greed is good, but too much of a good thing can be deadly for us.  Much like a silly black bird that has discovered a loose string in a tree. It tries to take all the string for it nest, but becomes wrapped up in the very item it desires and, then slowly hangs itself to death.   What good is it for a man to gain the world, but to lose his soul?

The Soul of Man

Just making a few notes to myself about these ideas, for a new collection of paintings. It still not fully flushed out, that always takes time.  To that, I look for the divine hand to make those changes.  This collection has a loose working title called “The Soul of Man”.

Now the, “The Soul of Man” is a deeper travel into the inner self for me.   Some the paintings, coming out of this may not be as light hearted as before and some may be dark.  That I don’t know as of yet, this collection is about the inner workings and talks between me and the Divine.

This collection is about the inner story from day to day.  Knowing how to build trust in the Divine, It’s about letting go of things. It going into your dark woods of your soul and facing the wolfs.  It so many things, but most of all it the real story of just being alive.

What seems to be the key touchstone for the idea behind “The Soul of Man”?  Is a line I hear the other day, “ The line between good and evil runs down the middle of a mans heart.”

So it to these ends, I must be true.  Follow down the rabbit hole into the self and discover, what hidden wisdom the Divine has there for me.  So as I learn more, I will build one this loose frame of idea for all to see.

Green Wall Benefits - Indoor Air Quality

Green Wall Benefits - Indoor Air Quality

As a Designer, I found this green walls to be a fun idea  for design.  Also a different way to bring plants into a living space.  

First artist statement

 Artist Statement

 “To seek the divine in all things!”  My work is what I like to call spiritlie expresses, it a mix of symbolism with officserives writings from the everyday world that St. Francis called “THE HIDDEN WISDOMS”.  Which are the lessons placed with in all things by the divine, to help us understand who we are and build our personal relationship with the divine.  But then add the ideas of the German express’s about man in humanly to their fellow man.   All these things from the core of my work, but most of all, It my personal relationship with the divine and being is instrument of his divine love to those around me. 

Artist Bio

Lenny was born in 1970 in the small town of Haldane, located 30 miles south of Freeport, Illinois. Lenny is part of a large family. Lenny and his six brothers were raised as General Baptists.  At the age of twenty-five, Lenny married his wife Sarah and decided to convert to Catholicism.

Lenny’s artistic background is composed of art classes from Highland Community College and a Residential Planning Diploma from the Illinois Art Institute in Schaumburg and Pursuing Associate of Science in Interior Design.

Many things influence Lenny’s art. His strong religious ties and St. Francis are some of his influences in the use of animals in his paintings and the use of reflection phases. “I use animals and nature in my pieces because I believe that they have hidden wisdoms placed with in them by the Divine, for us to discover.”  Other influences include painters like Franz Marc, Kandiskey, and Edvard Munch. In addition, the Glasgow cave paintings and carvings found in the Middle Ages also play an important part of Lenny’s art.   So to sum up Lenny French work it about his life along reasonship through art with the Divine and  Helping others to Discover  their