Art for life
This is a follow up to the painting called PTSD.
This one illustrates how it is possible to move beyond the worst of the past. It is possible to have the flames behind you and to look to the future with hope and certainty. Every scar may not pass but once we learn to heal what we can and manage what we can’t true growth and true freedom will begin.
Life can be beautiful. Life will be beautiful.
The dress of this young woman drapes across her and forms a river where a small sprout comes forth. On the sprout is a cardinal, on the limbs of her hair is another. I’m a lover of texture so there’s a lot of that to see as well. Greens and hues of blue are accented by bursts of orange and small dabs of yellow and red. Her face is half concealed, her arms folded around her holding her inner earth steady above the river.
On The Eve of Something Beautiful (V1 and V2) 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.
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She sits for her portrait challenging the painter to use his vision and capture just a fraction of her character, her colour, her light. The Sitting.
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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.
detail 1
detail 2 
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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