Queen Arts
The summer seems to have come and gone in a mad dash this year. Something I plan on finding a remedy for in my life. As most of you who pay attention could tell my aim to avoid Facebook and online activity was an epic fail. Though I avoided numerous and annoying daily status updates I discovered the saddening fact that FB has become a necessary evil. I have numerous contacts that otherwise I cannot reach in that online society. Though I do plan to continue my limited time on FB and if possibly completely avoid the site with the exception of updates and contact messages. Life is turbulent and we make it more complicated than it needs to be. Bruce Lee is quoted as stating “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” I possibly more than most realize the precious nature of time in relation to life. My crash in 2004 left me with a great realization of how I had wasted so much of my life. I would love to state I learnt my lesson and moved on but reality as I see it is I still have much to learn. I feel so much of these past seven years have been wasted on fruitless and wasteful endeavors and activities. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” ~ Bruce Lee Ah yes Mr. Lee was a plethora of knowledge and wisdom. I am in the process at hacking away at the unessential as we speak. We here in the U.S. have a life of excess. I am reminded of Mike Shinoda’s artwork of “Glorious Excess” if you haven’t checked out the work do so at http://mikeshinoda.com/category/glorious-excess-dies-artwork/ very captivating and amazing artwork and message there. I am a survivor so it is only natural I hack away at the excess until I only have what is needed for immediate survival. It will no doubt be a journey but alas I love a good journey. Speaking of journeys this summer has been filled with my share of journeys. I have danced along the tranquil sunset strip of St. Simon’s Georgia sweated with the masses as Disney in Orlando and found my zen at the beaches of St. Augustine FLA. Photos will come in time as I need to add some finesse to my photography.

Now on to the juicy bits. You may have notice the name is now Queen Arts. I had to adapt the name of my studio to include several aspects of my creative life. I wanted to create a simplified umbrella name to cover all of the creative aspects of my life, family and art. The end result of this process was Queen Arts. A name which will house a great many and different topics. One of which is my wife Christy. My wife and I now play and sing together as a group and often for our worship team at Sanctuary of Grace. We have included our music into the Altar Art performances on several occasions. Our music is a mixed bag of tunes varying from celtic worship tunes to modern christian songs. The music is pretty simplified and personal as I have no actual ability to play a musical instrument. I leave the music to my lovely wife and her amazing keyboard. My wife is also a blossoming writer. I am working on breaking her out of her protective shell and getting her works of word into the spotlight or at least her own blog. Her writings are usually parable wisdom for the current day. I often enjoy her insight into ordinary activities and how they relate to our great maker. Look for her blog coming soon to my new and updated website.

Another aspect is Altar Art. It never seemed to quite fit under my previous studios name of RogueWolf. For those of you who follow my performance series “Altar Art” I have been on a two month reprieve and have done some soul searching in the process. Before the reprieve I was at a point where I was questioning the existence of Altar Art. Basically I wanted to see if its time had come to an end. I have enjoyed my time performing for churches, concerts and youth groups but I wanted to be sure this was still the arena where my God needed me to be. I gave it time and gave it to Him. I pretty much figured if it was not meant to continue that I would receive no more inquiries into the performances. I received my answer early July with people interested in Altar Art performances after my time away. I am now booked with Altar Art through October. If you do not follow my performances please visit https://www.facebook.com/pages/L-Jason-Queen/24118716051 to see where my performance series will be. For those of you interested in booking me for an event please feel free to contact me via FB or jason@roguewolfstudios.com For those of you who have no idea what I am blathering on about see the following. Altar Art is a Christ centered worship series involving music art and spoken word. A painting (usually 4’x4’) is painted in front of the crowd to music that fits the mood of the performance. I often share with you my testimony about the accident of 2004 and getting “real” with my maker. If you bring me in wether it be a concert, youth group or you just want something fresh in your worship service the painting completed is yours to keep. Altar Art is very adaptable to your service I can play to your worship band, my own CD and now am pleased to announce my wife plays and sings with me on many of these performances. Just let me know what would best fit your needs. I DO NOT CHARGE ANYTHING FOR THESE PERFORMANCES that is not what this is about. It is about a true and honest worship experience with the Creator of All. I do however accept donations or love offerings in order to keep the paint flowing but it is not a necessity in order for me to show up. I leave that aspect up to those who book me for a show. If you want me to travel out of the immediate area, I am soooooo up for a journey but please give me plenty of time so that I can set aside expenses for the trip to wherever you are. I have paint and will travel is my motto. God is the artist I am simply one of His many brushes!

RogueWolf studios will not disappear completely. It is after all a given and earned name… My native name. RogueWolf will continue to be the personal aspect to my art and creations. My deviant account and most of my personal galleries will continue to fall under RogueWolf. In this aspect of my creative side you will find my paintings illustrations, blogs, poems and personal works of art. This past summer I have had the honor of working with some very cool people through RogueWolf studios. I created a book cover for the West Virginia Book Company to a book titled “Death Visits Canaan Valley by EDWIN DARYL MICHAEL”

http://roguewolfstudios.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d41ebhv
Death Visits Canaan Valley by ~RogueWolfStudios on deviantARTwhich will be on shelves soon. I have also completed numerous logos for various companies and groups. I completed a personal work titled “Duality of Force” http://roguewolfstudios.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3irnhf
Duality of Force by ~RogueWolfStudios on deviantART for my Sci Fi Star Wars friends you should appreciate it. I am also in the process of joining the ranks of the Star Wars 501st legion. Some very cool costumes and props will be created in order to troop with this charitable group of people. A group that supports local and national causes to make a difference in the lives of people through the fun of Star Wars costuming. http://s1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa331/roguewolfstudios/

Now for some interesting RogueWolf news. I plan on continuing down the illustrative path that has been lain before me but will for the most part be working on a personal project. A personal project that returns me to my creative comic days. I am in the process of writing and illustrating a graphic novel. I am keeping tight wraps around most of the details surrounding this project but for the next year I will writing and illustrating a book concerning an original character and story line. I will leak sketches and pieces of work from time to time to further peak interest in this project. So stay tuned throughout the next year to see where this adventure leads. In addition to these fun facts I will be creating prints of past works for purchase to those interested in owning an original piece of my work. Looks for prints coming soon as well as galleries from my children Morgan and Maria!

On the personal front not relating to artwork my son and I earned the red sash from our Kung Fu school - Magic Fist where we have studied bled and sweated for the past 5-6 years. My journey to weight loss is doing great! To date I have lost almost 20 pounds since April (starting at 204 now at 185). A process I need to continue and achieve in order to undergo more surgeries on my knee. I am planning on receiving another robo-knee sometime in the next year. I would like to be in the best possible shape to endure this series of surgeries to increase my mobility and decrease the daily pain I live with. In order to do this my son and I have begun kettle bell workouts and weekly workout routines. It is a joy to work out with my son by my side! My spiritual life will be another blog as it goes deep and deserves its own space. Look for it soon! until then ….Peace and prayers my friends! ~ Jason