Last week was pretty crazy...in a good way though! Well, sort of. The good part was that I got to relax a lot and do some of the things I love to do - namely painting and reading. The bad part was that I was sick. Last Monday night I had a fever of 102.5 Fahrenheit! That wasn't fun. Then I had all kinds of sicknesses around it... I got the flu (which I'm still getting rid of) along with a sore throat, and even a swollen eye over the weekend!

But the good part, as I said, was that I got a lot of painting and reading and relaxing done. I'm ready to get back to the business of school and things in youth group and stuff.

Here's something that I've been working on for a while. It depicts the dwarf lord Balin retaking the Mines of Moria from the Goblins. Enjoy!


More pictures of recent projects to come soon! I did lots of painting over the weekend, it's been great! ;)

Phew...well we survived the men's conference! it was really great, the speaker had some great things to say.

The first night of worship was really hard for me, and I put so much energy and emotions into it that I was totally drained after. It was really strange...but after a good night's sleep God restored my strength!

We're going to celebrate Caleb's 15th birthday tonight with the Ellenwoods...it should be fun! We're going out to this cool restaurant. Then tomorrow is Caleb's actual birthday so be sure to write him and wish him a happy birthday!

This weekend we have a men's conference up at Malenovice. Boza (our youth pastor and worship leader) was supposed to have worship at it today and tomorrow, but he and our drummer got sick yesterday...so that leaves me.

There are gonna be 140 people there, so please pray for me that God will work through the worship and really touch everyone's hearts. Also pray for me for strength...140 is a lot. Caleb will play bass with me and there's a guy from Prague who's coming and he'll hopefully play guitar along with me.

So yeah...it's gonna be crazy. I'm a little nervous...but I trust in Him.

A couple of days ago Caleb, mom and I got new phones! They're really nice, and our old ones were really falling apart so I'm very happy. Here's what mine looks like! I've been spending my free time figuring out how to put music, pictures and videos on from my computer. I think I've got it all figured out, now to just sit back and enjoy!
School's been pretty crazy lately...we're having to wrap up our grades for this semester so that means lots of tests! Aaaah...without my new phone I'd go crazy =)

I've been in a pretty creative mood again. I'm taking a break from painting LOTR figures for a little while, painting Legolas took a lot of energy and time! So I've been trying watercolors, which are really tricky. I've also started writing a story. I just kinda started and decided to just go where my mind led me. At school I have a creative writing class so I'll try to keep writing a chapter a week for that. Two are down already! Unfortunately it's very rough and not fit for public viewing yet ;)

Jon Foreman's new Winter EP just came out yesterday!!! I'm so excited about it. I strongly recommend both his Fall and Winter EP's, and can't wait for Spring and Summer!!!

Drum roll please.................................................................... Prepare for the unveiling of Tyler Patty's most stunning work yet!


This small diorama depicts two friends, an elf and a dwarf, fighting at the battle of Helm's Deep. I'm talking of course about Legolas (up on the wall) and Gimli (smoking a pipe on a dead Uruk-Hai).

I hope the ebullient Nathan Pitcher is proud of my second take on Legolas, as he was so fond of the original (which I was not so fond of, hence the new paint job). I'd like to thank the sagacious Becca McMartin for the wonderful Gimli, which I am glad I am done painting (it was quite frustrating actually!).

Even though these two figures were painted only days apart from each other, I am especially proud of Legolas. Both were very time-consuming to paint, because I tried to pay a lot of attention to detail. There are some things I would have done differently now looking back...but we learn from our mistakes so I guess I'll just have to live with it!


Overall though I think I did pretty well. The good part is that I still have lots more places to go, I can still keep on experimenting and learning! You can be expecting more diorama thingamajigs in the future, I already have a couple more ideas.

Oh, and just in case you were wondering how I did the brickwork, while we were in the states I got some brick molds. I then pour plaster in them, let it dry and pop them out! Then I can glue them together and paint over it all. It's awesome, and you'll see some more of them in the future as well!

Gotta go eat dinner! Thanks in advance for all your comments! =)

I was inspired by Nathan's latest post on his blog and decided to acquire a peculiar aristocratic title myself!

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Grand Duke Tyler Joseph the Blue of Fiddlers Green Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

I started painting my Legolas figure yesterday, and it's coming along quite nicely! I should have it done by the end of the week, so I'll post pictures of all that I've painted lately then!

One thing I got for Christmas from Claire was a great movie called Once. It's a movie about how a Dublin busker meets a Czech girl pianist, and the two decide to record an album together. That's the short version, I highly recommend you see it for yourself! It's very different from anything you've ever seen before, I can guarantee that.

The only down-side to it is the R-rating for language but it doesn't bug me too much and I really enjoyed the musical parts of it. I downloaded the soundtrack off of iTunes last night and have been listening to it all day!


Ever since we got back from the States I've been in an artsy mood, so I got some pretty cool stuff done. I'll put up pictures soon, I'm sure you'll all be proud of me!! =)