Category: Confidence!

• A CLEAN SLATE

  3–4 minutes

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  03/04/2023

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  Addiction, Confidence!, Creativity and my Bipolar Brain, disability, dreams, Emerging Artist, Florida Artist, God, Hope, love, mental illness, Mixed media, sanity, self worth

  oh so WHITE AND SHINY… Waiting for my pen, for my brush. I just cant stand the barrenness of it, stretching of into the infinite distance, saying nothing. I cant sit in silence either, in a social setting. I would be awful in an interrogation, babbling mindlessly- wait… not mindlessly. I do get chatty, but…

  

• Round One: Let the Game Begin!

  2–4 minutes

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  03/21/2022

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, bipolar artist, Confidence!, Creativity, dreams, Emerging Artist, Excellence, Fine art, Florida Artist, Gallery Art, garden art, Garden art,, gratitude, Hope, Illustration, Impressionist, Joy, learning, Management, Mania, Marketing Stategy, Master, Metal art, Mixed Media, Mixed media, Murals, oceans, out of the gutter, outsider art, painting, recycled art, Sculpture, Success, Surrealism, Top, Transformation, whimsical art

  “…walking into the sunlight of my artistic future!”

  

• An Artist’s Realization:

  1–2 minutes

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  02/06/2022

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, bipolar artist, Confidence!, Creativity and my Bipolar Brain, dreams, Emerging Artist, Excellence, Fine art, Gallery Art, Marketing Stategy, Metal art, Mixed media, Sculpture

  “My dreams are NOT dead!…”

  

• Painting My Heart Out

  2–3 minutes

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  02/25/2021

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Birds, Birds,, career, Childhood sexual abuse, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, disability, dreams, Excellence, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, grief, identity, Impressionist, Injustice, Investing in Art, Joy, learning, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, outsider art, pain, painting, Prostitution, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Ransom sacrifice, Recovery, Healing, repentance, repurposed, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Surrealism, Therapy, Transformation

  Woo Hoo ! I am an artist WHIRLWIND again! Hang on, cause art is flowing out of me in a torrent, and I need more hands. I am happy to be out of “funk town” for a while! I entered six shows in the past month and now have 5 paintings accepted into these shows…

  

• The Hurrier I Go…

  2–3 minutes

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  02/11/2021

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, dreams, Flashbacks, garden art, Garden art,, gift, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Impressionist, Injustice, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed media, Mood Swings, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, repentance, self worth, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, whimsical art

  THE BEHINDER I GET How true, how true that Pennsylvania Dutch saying is. I squander my art endeavors, rushing from this deadline to that, frazzled, befuddled and unsatisfied. That may be what drove Van Gogh insane, the constant turmoil to do better. I am making the presumption that perhaps the rapid cycling Bipolar Disorder that…

  

• The Big Show

  2–3 minutes

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  02/04/2021

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, dreams, Employment, Excellence, Finances, gift, gratitude, Hope, Management, Marketing Stategy, Mixed media

  One just can’t help getting one’s hopes up when entering shows. You read the call, you think “Wow! Piece of Cake! That’s exactly the kind of art I do anyway!” If , on the other hand I said, “Wow! That is one tough call. I WILL REALLY HAVE TO DIG DEEP AND PUSH MY LIMITS…”…

  

• IN the Mirror

  1–2 minutes

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  01/16/2021

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  acrylic, Addiction, Anorexia/Bulemia, art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, disability, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, gratitude, identity, Impressionist, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, Self harm, self worth, Sex abuse, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Surrealism, Therapy, Transformation, Vigil, voyages

  recognizing my BIPOLAR self image I’m in “Wonderland” right now. Been here for a week or so. Time seems to be inching by, my head too heavy to lift off the pillow. Not sick physically, I’m just…just…what can I tell you? I have had some unknown trigger going me headlong into a timewarp. Into a…

  

• It’s Just Me…

  2–3 minutes

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  11/19/2020

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  art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, Confidence!, Creativity, Denial, gift, God, gratitude, identity, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, mothers, moving day, moving on, out of the gutter, pain, promises, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, repentance, repurposed, Serenity, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized, voyages

  “He bandaged my broken hands that had beaten down my own hopes…”