For every survivor of ever sort there is a time to heal, my time is now.
If you look closely at the fire in the greeting card you’ll notice it goes into the shape of a heart. The heart of fire symbolizes zeal and dedication to healing.
The My Time To Heal Greeting Card is on Redbubble for $4.56 with a black or white background. “Greeting Cards are printed on our Durst Theta, bonded to high quality 200 gsm card for the best internal writing surface, creased and packed with an envelope ready to write on, give away or just admire.”
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I usually paint digitally but my first love paint on canvas. I have very few paintings anymore on canvas but I have hundreds of sketches. Here are just a few.
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One of the things I’ve noticed about my artwork is that I lean to one side of the paper or canvas. I’m drawn to certain colours, usually the darker colours and I like to layer and add illusion as well as hidden images. Many of my abstract sketches are up and down, filled with arrows, cross hatching and small asterix type designs.
For as long as I can remember I’ve added arrows to my work. Why? I finally came up with the reason. I believe in life we are told which way to go, which direction is right and which is wrong. We’re told which side of the street to walk on, which street should not be entered, which way is south, north, the straight path or a detour. Arrows and directions are part of our everyday life. It is easy to become overwhelmed by constantly being guided. Many times the instruction arrows are to lead us down the right path and keep us safe. It’s wise to follow arrows and directional signs but I still find the constant bombardment of “this is how you should do things” overwhelming. I take the everyday “go this way” and add it to my art. Adding arrows and placing them where I want them helps me feel more in control of my destiny.
I have at least 5 full sketch books of nothing but arrows and lines, crosshatches and geometric shapes. In them you’ll see that theme but you’ll also see me break composition and artistic logic by adding a bright, bold colour where it doesn’t belong. It’s intended as a strong statement against order and forced compliance.
Do you analyze your own artwork? Are certain patterns and techniques intended to express deeper thoughts and go beyond what is accepted as good compositions and presentation?
F. Magdalene
Here’s one thing that will never be said about me as an artist: “That girl is afraid of colour.”This painting started out with one stroke on Picture It Publish It by Microsoft and lead to what you see here. It’s another “up all night” painting…one of those things I do when I really should be sleeping but other matters prevent it.
Detail of the face and body can be seen by right clicking the image.
Detail of texture
Another paintings along the lines of Eye Sore is called Face It. Face It is not as bright but it shares the same dramatic strokes and figure as Eye Soar.
Available in print on Redbubble as well as via PayPal
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F. Magdalene
The original version was hand drawn back in 2000. It’s even signed with my married name, how gross. I had to edit that out and put my correct name in there. The new version is digitally enhanced but I kept the same shapes including the lop sided border. Click the images to make them larger.
Puzzled Anxiety - Original sketch
The new digitally enhanced Puzzled.
Art by: F. Magdalene
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With a tad bit of pulling and stretching and one easy “dark foil” filter you get a totally different look than the original and the straight colour version.
The original drawing is pen and black ink on basic sketch paper then digitally enhanced. The same pencil on canvas filter used to enhance the drawing was also used to create the border and frame. A touch of gold is added to the first frame layer. The border is solid black with pencil on canvas texture.
This detailed view shows a painting with weathered edges against black matting. 
detailed view 2 shows a chaotic crown above the figures head
and detail three shows the puddle she stands in as well as a closer view of the border.
Face It in colour doesn’t have the same feel as the black and white but I still like it.
Title: Face It
Art by: F. Magdalene
Pen and Ink as well as the digital versions were created November 5th, 2007
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