Art for life
Pleasant and Pleasant Petals
This is a revised piece of a still life called June Pots. The second version is simply called Pleasant, the third pictured above is Pleasant Petals.
Click the thumbnails for a close up view. See Redbubble and the Sundrip galleries for prints.
F. Magdalene
Earthly is a sister painting to “Birth”.
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This painting started out as a black and white sketch but once colour was added it took a totally different turn.
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F. Magdalene
This painting has given me the blues. The original version of Purity was painted with very saturated earth tones such as burnt orange, amber, chocolate and tan. The flowers are pink and shades of yellow on version one. When viewing it I just wasn’t satisfied. It printed off quite well but it didn’t grab me so back to the drawing board I went.
Here I’ve added several new colours, brightened her skin up a bit, added auburn hair and changed the background from tan to shades of blue. We still have the nude figure with one arm to her side and one arm behind her back and we still have the Faceless Beauty concept. Although I like this version better than Version One this may not be the last we see of Purity. For now she is on Redbubble and can be printed as a greeting card, a poster, a framed print and several other affordable options. Please visit the bubble by clicking the red square on my sidebar.
This is the original version of Purity which can be found in the Faceless Beauty Gallery.
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F. Magdalene
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If you’re using Firefox right click the thumbnails to see “Birth” up close and personal.
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“Birth” can be seen on Redbubble and is available in the galleries on this site.
I crave the simple image
The minimalist’s view painted on my inner most eye.
A soft pallet stroking my grieved and sickly soul
With it’s never too little, never too much easy flow of grace
Inviting me to rest my head
And forget.
I crave you.
I crave flowing pastures that meet soft blue horizons.
Never worried they are of
Thunder, threats and lightening storms raining despair upon settled ground.
No rose petals falling from skinny hopeless stalks or
Once hearty trees giving in to driving rain.
No, I crave a bloom coming forth from freshly sprouted earth and
Sun rays that compliment her efforts.
I crave this, this elegance, this simplicity, this conflict free existence.
Today I ask you not to offer up hurried flashes and trampling thoughts one over the other.
Don’t take me down paths to the world that once held me captive.
Today I ask for orange to make peace with yellow and not war across the page
Spilling on red, assaulting blue and running head first into black.
Not today, today I crave simplicity.
I need something simple, something elegant
As my mind is weary, saddled with burden, near to fail and never phoenix.
So I beg for rest, for reprieve, for mercy.
Show me no images of the war I fought and lost
Remind me not of times I stood dressed as a soldier
In tiny patent leather shoes and a frilly little dress
Beside my commander, my chief, my enemy.
I ask you
I beg of you
Show me no more sorrow
Show me no more pain.
Today I need simplicity.
Today I must have peace.
Elegance and Peace by F. Magdalene
written Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 9:33 pm
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