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Sweet Gardenia Folk Art

Published on February 6, 2012 in Art, Art by black women, ART GALLERY, Art Sale, Black Children, Children, Faces, Originals, Paintings, POETRY and Sunflowers. 0 Comments

Sweet, sweet Gardenia why won’t you smile?
The earth offers the power of blossoms as the
Heavens exhale in color
Sweet, sweet Gardenia, why won’t you open your eyes?
Crumbling soul, child of despair
Please I say, open your eyes.

Poem and painting are Copyright @ Sundrip.com All rights reserved

Painting details: 4 x 6 mixed media painting, wood crackle medium, black folk art child, eyes closed, purple and red dress. Signed, dated, mounted on black mat. A handwritten copy of the poem is included with the painting.

Sweet Gardenia is available in my Etsy shop or via PayPal. Please see sidebar for contact details and links.

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F. Magdalene Austin

Diary of an Uninspired Artist

Published on October 19, 2009 in Art, Art by black women, ART GALLERY, Originals, POETRY and Sketchbook diary. 2 Comments

Goodbye flowers, hello cold.  It seems during the cold I’ve lost artistic inspiration so I filled my sketch diary with paintings inspired by lack of inspiration.

Goodbye sunny flowers. It’s oh so cold these days.

Goodbye flowers

The sun rays have left, they took with them my ability to create.

Cold Outside

At the table in my under pants I sit and wait.

Inspiration

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Crystal’s Tree

Published on March 22, 2009 in Art, Art by black women, Digital Art, POETRY and Women. 3 Comments

Crystal's Tree

She’s not yet learned to bend with grace or extend her arms in confidence.
She has yet to learn how to withstand heavy winds
Or hold herself under weight never meant for her.
Wobbly and uncertain she sways in the grass growing lovely.
Tall and slender she blends perfectly with tender blooms.
Around her together every form of life hangs on her soft whisper,
He will come.
He will lift my burden.
Every sparrow, every cloud above knows He will.

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“Crystal’s Tree”  has been on my mind for weeks. I saw a quote on the net about children who live with adult responsibility and fight with everything they have to manage it with their inadequate resources. It was a touching quote.

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Katherine In A Daisy Lined Dress

Published on October 12, 2008 in Art, Art by black women, Art Sale, Butterflies, Children, Digital Art, Faces, Fantasy, Flowers and POETRY. 1 Comment

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With flaming red hair she withstands the winds
Butterflies flutter and ladybugs bless
The little Katherine child in the daisy lined dress.

Title: Katherine
Art by: F. Magdalene
There is an 11 x 14 print available of Katherine in my Etsy shop. Please see the sidebar for the link.

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Weary Art Companions

Published on June 26, 2008 in Art and POETRY. 0 Comments

Give me your tired and weary art companions
Give to me your empty canvas crying out for media
Pens which have never seen paper
Brushes thirsting for colour and chalk long abandoned for charcoal.
Give to me the tired potters wheel and paintings that never came to be.
Left to dry like leaves in the sun so to is the oil of an old painter’s pallet.
Give them to me,
Frail and frazzled brushes, sponges bruised with Indian ink,
Cloth scrunched in cupboards, dishes cracked, left and forgotten beneath the sink of your shops.
Give to me your crooked, rusted knives longing to be caressed one more time, just one more time.
Needing, requiring like breath, like shelter, like life itself to be drawn across a world of acrylics once more, just once more.
Give them to me.

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