Category: clean

• Evolution of Self 2008-2018

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  08/17/2018

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flowers, Found Objects, garden Photography, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Oil, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, repurposed, sexual assault

         Quite a Journey, this “Being Me”…These images only show a tiny portion of my different self images, and perhaps one day I will caption them. Right nowI’m just too, too tired…

  

• Another Facet

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  07/30/2018

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, faith, Flashbacks, Flowers, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, garden Photography, gift, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, out of the gutter, Photography, promises, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, recycled, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized

   

  

• The Lemon Tree Box

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  02/02/2018

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, faith, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, hospice, Injustice, Joy, love, mental illness, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Photography, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, recycled, shih-tzus, sobriety, Therapy, treasures, Vigil

  POINTILLISM, YAY! One of my favorite methods of mark making! So satisfying to see the images take shape, to know I did it with nary a line, just marvelous dots! ah, but the little box is not finished,not in pictures one and 2…   and not in the little video…so where is the little Lemon…

  

• “Open Sea” and Exquisite Aloneness

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  01/24/2018

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  acrylic, art, Bipolar Disorder, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, faith, Flashbacks, full moon, photograph, pictures, digital photo art, custom art, learning , new ways to create, layout, publish, expand , giving, talent,into the new, outofthegutterart.com, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Serenity, sobriety, Therapy, treasures

  This was a big endeavor for me, and I believe I have painted at least three different paintings in the course of 2 years on this one canvas…That can be one of the downfalls of being ocd and bipolar, when I can’t let a thing be good enough or ever done. So, here is the…

  

• RILEY the Elegant Elephant

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  12/23/2017

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, disability, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, Mixed Media, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, Retirement,, Saving Money, Serenity, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, shih-tzus, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Top, Uncategorized

  An update on our dear friend Riley!