This started out as an ink drawing in the back of a cab.
In addition to my fascination with red I’m also a big fan of green. In my paintings green usually signifies youth, innocence and an organic, earthly freshness. You can see this meaning in the lush foliage of paintings such Rough Terrain, Dragonfly, Sundrip (the painting) and Dreamscape.
Quiet Reflection shows a young woman with her head slightly tilted to the side, lost in peaceful thoughts. Her soft brown eyes reflect kindness. Her blue hair is to tell the world she’s creative and ready to express herself.
Please look for Quiet Reflection in the Women of Strength Gallery.
Thanks for dropping by,
F. Magdalene
Sophomore eyes and lips close up.
A young girl presses womanhood and plays the part without the full understanding of what it means to truly be a woman. She’s a Sophomore.
soph·o·mor·ic -
1 : conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature <a sophomoric argument>
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a sophomore <sophomoric humor>
Sophomore was inspired by an acrylic painting (metallic acrylics, pen and ink) on craft paper painting called She Hangs The Moon. The finished version of She Hangs The Moon is not available for publishing. Please visit Sophomore at my Redubble gallery. 
Thank you for visiting Sundrip - Art for Life
I’m still trying new subjects to paint and new styles. The newest is called “Father and Child”. It’s an ethnic painting of a tender moment between father and child. They nap together amongst strong earth tones, foliage greens and vivid blue on a golden turquoise shell bed.
Version Two has a different sky. Version One is offered in the Sundrip galleries only whereas Version two is both on Sundrip and on Redbubble. Click each thumbnail for a detailed view. Version one does not come with a black border. It is only for the purpose of showing contrast.
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art by F. Magdalene
I’ve heard art like this is called “outsider art.” I believe I have achieved going outside my norm. To appreciate the texture and brush strokes please click each thumbnail.
This painting is offered on Redbubble. Please see my sidebar for the square link to the bubble.
I believe I may actually be finished with this piece. The first started off as a nude where you couldn’t really tell if the figure was male or female. I left it up to the view to decide. The second was clearly female with a pink dress and lighter shades of blue. I think it’s obvious the figure in this is female. Anyway, at this point I can give a sigh of relief and put this piece to rest.
Since I save unfinished works all I had to do was look up the right disk and start where I left off. I get kind of obsessive with filing. I have a system. When saving this file I started off with one large folder. Each time I saved the image I did so with numbers and letters. Any copy of a saved file has an X at the end so I know when cleaning out that folder I can toss anything with an X at the end. I don’t have to save that or put it on disk. When I get to about 25 files in one folder I start on a second folder with a second set of numbers. For instance, the file folder for this would be Waiting V3. Each file in that folder starts with WV3 and is followed by a series of numbers to indicate which step the painting was in when saved. Because Picture It Publish It is horribly written I have to save often so I end up with stuff like WV# 1-1, 1-2, 1-2x etc. When cleaning the folder out and getting it ready to save I’ll delete several steps and save others. My little system makes it easy to clean the folders and put them on disk and find the right file later.
I’m sure everyone was soooooo interested in my filing system so I figured I’d go ahead and tell ya how it’s done. You’re happy now right, but something is still missing isn’t it? Your life isn’t quite complete. Oh, I know why, you know my filing system but you don’t have the print. Check out RedBubble for prints.
Thanks for visiting,
F. Magdalene
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