Category: Oil

• Peeping Out

  2–3 minutes

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  04/17/2022

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Creativity and my Bipolar Brain, Fine art, Gallery Art, Impressionist, Mixed media, Oil, outsider art, Surrealism, whimsical art

  “Hold on for dear life my friend.”

  

• Are You Confused?

  2–3 minutes

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  10/27/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, Flowers, Garden art,, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, horses, Impressionist, Injustice, insomnia, learning, Making Money, Management, Mania, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed media, Oil, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, shih-tzus, voyages, whimsical art

  Who Was I Then? Am I Now? Who Will I Become? I know that we change, it is a natural thing. I’m not hung up on the aging process… the CREATIVE PROCESS is where my interest lies. My creative life ebbs and flows like the ocean, like my moods, like my illness… Must I always…

  

• A Freewheeling Frenzy!

  1–2 minutes

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  10/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, disability, dreams, Excellence, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, Impressionist, insomnia, Job, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mixed media, Oil, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Top, treasures, Uncategorized, voyages

  I have to get the mix just right: a smidgen of anxiety, a pinch of hunger, a good dose of caffeine and just about 48 hours without sleep and *BAM*! The NY creative lightning strikes! Tonight was the night, today was the day, cleaning off my museum pieces with fine brushes, repairing and sprucing up…

• Free My Mind for You/ Free Your Mind for Me

  1–2 minutes

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  10/07/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, dreams, Impressionist, Oil, outsider art, Surrealism

  …inside myself I am whole, where I am not broken…

• Yellow Belly.

  1–2 minutes

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  10/04/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, cats, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Eternal Life, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, HighFinance, Hope, hospice, identity, Impressionist, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, oceans, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, Success, Surrealism, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized, Vigil, voyages

  …Random Words, Targeted Pain….Red, Yellow, Green and Brown Pain…White Pain…My Pain…

  

• IN the DOGHOUSE

  2–3 minutes

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  09/23/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, career, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Employment, Excellence, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, horses, Impressionist, Investing in Art, Joy, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Murals, Oil, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, Photography, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, shih-tzus, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Uncategorized

  …there is a niggling worry, about the big C…CO I mean…VID…

  

• Bad Bad Leroy the Paint Pen

  1–2 minutes

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  08/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Oil

  The words all run together, the letters messy on the keyboard. Tired but sleepless, fighting with little paint markers I ordered on EBay… Demanded a refund for the leaking, streaking, project-ruining, AWFUL Paint Markerz. Awful. Yet I sat here and fought with them for hours while working on a little handmade trash can I found…

• What Does Artistic Success LOOK Like?

  4–6 minutes

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  09/15/2019

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, identity theft, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, Oil, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, treasures

  Wouldn’t we all like to know, right? Yes! We all want to be a great “success” in our chosen field, and many artists have a clear idea of what they need to be successful. Speaking for myself, I thought success would mean the end of financial struggle, to a point. As a person with mental…