Art for life
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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The fall colours in this image are rich and full bodied and would do fine in the foyer of a restaurant, private office or home. The Sitting can be seen on Redbubble for purchase as a matted print, on canvas as well as matted and framed. Purchases via PayPal from Sundrip.com arrive as an un-matted 8×11 print. Check the sidebar for Redbubble and other purchase methods as well as contact information.
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
Until I find a better title for this painting I’ll have to call her “She’s Green.” I painted A Boy’s Mask and was kinda happy with it but I wanted to fool around and do something a little X-Men with it. The truth is, I watched the DVD X-Men and fell in love with the girl that kept morphing into whatever shape she wanted. When she was finished with the shape she went back to her scaly, fish-like self. I thought she was pretty cool. She and Wolverine are the main reasons I watch that movie all the time. There’s also a hint of the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. There’s a part in the movie where the ladies paint their faces white but there’s a distinct mark where there is no paint yet. When I watch that movie I’m captivated by that. It’s a great movie, the visuals, the dancing, the story itself is a great o
ne. I don’t mean to minimize any of that. It’s just I like that diamond shape on the back. So, here’s my piece that started off as a boy wearing a mask and ended being touched by Hollywood to become a green girl.
Title1 : She’s Green V2
Title2 : She’s Green V1
Art by: F. Magdalene
