About Me

My Mission: To honor God with every gift that He has given me, create art that is an offering of worship to the Lord, value and cherish my friends and family and try hard to succeed and do well without the allowing the fear of failure to hamper my efforts. Soli Gloria Deo.

• Name: Marisa Rountree
• Age: 22
• Gender: Female
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Student, Painter, Photographer
• Location: Orange : California : United States

Interests:

Art
Painting
Photographing
Reading good books
Watching Good Movies…
Spending time with family, and friends.
Watching old movies (and new movies…)
Going to new places.

Favorite Music:

Jethro Tull, The Beatles, Coldplay, Belle & Sebastian, Johnny Cash, U2, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Steely Dan, Procol Harum, Sufjan Stevens, Guster, The Kinks, Andrew Bird, The Who, The Frames, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Radiohead, John Mayer, Jars of Clay, Iron and Wine, George Gershwin, Queen, Bob Dylan, Chicago, Lifehouse, Aqualung, Death Cab for Cutie, Stevie Wonder, The Soundtracks to all my favorite movies (James Newton Howard scores especially…)….

Favorite TV Shows:

The Office, Columbo, The Prisoner, Friday Night Lights, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, NCIS, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Whose Line is It Anyways? Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes….

Favorite Movies:

(in no particular order…)The Star Wars Trilogy, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Pride and Prejudice, Signs, The Village, All Marx Brothers Movies, Finding Neverland, Murder By Death, Dr. Strangelove, F is for Fake, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Everything is Illuminated, Clue, Across the Universe, Into the Wild, POTC: Epic Jack Knows Will’s Secret Innuendo…

Favorite Books:

Lots of Shakespeare,
Lord of the Rings, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Place of the Lion, War in Heaven, Seeds of Contemplation, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art, Flannery O’Connor Short Stories, Most Agatha Christie Mysteries, Most Dorothy Sayers Mysteries, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Mere Christianity, Weight of Glory

Favorite Quotations:

“Well, art is art isn’t it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh…now you tell me what you know.” -Groucho Marx