I knew I wasn’t finished with this piece when I posted version one. I started pasting bits and pieces of old paintings together, textures and colours that otherwise wouldn’t go together. It was an experiment that I can’t say I’m disappointed in. The whole idea behind Shape Shifter is that the feline woman alters her appearance not with high fashion clothes and jewels but with any and everything made available to her. The Shape Shifter forms an outward identity with torn scraps, metal, bronze and gold. She covers herself in paper, wood, sticks, leaves and every discarded material. The Shape Shifter puts them together and presents herself to you finding no shame in it such coverings. After all, these are just pretty things to look at, things that rust and fly away when the wind blows just right. Outwardly she changes but her real identity remains rock solid. Without unshakable inner strength she has no purpose, ambition or vision. The outside changes, the inner self does not- Shape Shifter.
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I used Picture It Publish It and combined the watercolor and mural filter to the finished image. This is not an altered photograph.
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Shape shifter is an exceptionally earthy digital painting full of detail, texture and movement. If you look closely you can see what could be wood grain, a finger print or the veins of weathered paper running through the background image. This texture sits behind steel blue and sea green stained glass which also doubles as hair then swirls around in dark crimson as a necklace to the shape shifter.
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Title: Shape Shifter
Primary Colors: Yellow gold, pumpkin orange, auburn, raw umber,
Accents: Deep chocolate skin tone, dark crimson, steel blue, Jade and sea green,
Primary subject: African, cat, woman, eyes, shape shifter, werecat,
Secondary subject: Earthy, texture, masks, gold,
Art by: F. Magdalene
Magdalene’s Masked Collection
No Longer A Stray
One day she’ll be more than just a stray,
She’ll hang the moon,
Swing from the rainbow
And play marbles with the stars and planets.
One day she’ll pounce and leap,
With a belly full of sweetness she’ll slumber and sleep
No boxes or concrete beneath her but in a bed of her own in a place she calls home.
Poem Title: No Longer A Stray (for the kitten on my doorstep)
Art Title: A Kitten’s Rainbow Ascent
Art by: F. Magdalene
Wednesday, July 25, 2007-5:01AM EST
I never understood a person obsessed with cats until I got one myself. Now, artwork with a feline theme is common for me. Three of my girlfriends have a tortoiseshell, all female, all quite large cats as cats go. The same day I shot Rough Terrain I shot pictures of Tortimeister (seen above) with anticipation of handing over a nice photo to a friend. I was disappointed with the turn out of the photo itself but Picture It Publish It came to the rescue again. So here we have pretty bad shot turned into pretty decent artwork. Gotta love it.
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Tortoiseshell In Sepia: A Gift
Art by F. Magdalene
