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In our church, we have beautiful buildings called Temples where we grow closer to our God. As well as other things, in places like these, married couples are sealed for time and all eternity. This is the temple where my parents got married and sealed and where I might get married to my future husband.

I drew this at the beginning of my 9th grade school year, I was, for some reason, into drawing dragons. I drew a ton, especially at school, but this is the only one I could find, and the only one that I remember being drawn on non line paper.

As I was in church one Sunday, I felt inspired to draw this picture. Happy with the result, I wanted to do more with it. So I copied onto a stronger paper and painted it using my watercolors. The watercolor add a light and airy tone to this piece, which I believe helped with my purpose for it a lot.

Around the time I did this piece, I had recently found out one of my best friends was moving. It was a very sad time for me, so to illustrate my feelings, I painted this empty-eyed dragon with a lonesome tear trickling down it's scaly face.

The idea of yin and yang is kind-of an interesting concept to me. I like the idea that everything has an opposite, where one cannot exist without the other and they even each other out. Light and Dark, Male and Female, Good and Evil, Love and Hate, etc. It makes sense and defiantly is something interesting to think about. I painted this on the front of my 9th grade sketchbook. As well as the Yin and Yang symbol in the center of the composition, I surrounded it with flowers and wrote Sahlo Folina at the bottom. Sahlo Folina is a line I got it from the song Bandito by one of my favorite bands Twenty One Pilots.