Category: digital art

• FAIL…SAFE?

  2–3 minutes

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  10/02/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Confidence!, Creativity, digital art, Excellence, Flashbacks, garden art, God, gratitude, Hope, Joy, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, outsider art, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repentance, Serenity, Success, Teaching, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “…a drive to put what is playing on my internal projector out into the real world, for others to see…”

  

• Starting Over, Over Again

  1–2 minutes

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  09/29/2020

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  art, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Chronic Depression, clean, Creativity, digital art, disability, dreams, Excellence, faith, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, Murals, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, sexual assault, Shame and Guilt, sobriety, Success, Therapy, Uncategorized

  “… can you see me going mad in here?…”

  

• 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…

  

• Over the Humpty-Dump

  1–2 minutes

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  09/17/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Best, Bipolar Art, digital art, Excellence, Hope, insomnia, learning, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, moving day, moving on, outsider art, pain, painting, paradise Earth, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled, recycled art, repurposed, shih-tzus, Surrealism, Therapy, treasures

  Oh, the fun of a downward spiral…After a week or two of just mind blowing energy and creativity, comes the inevitable crash. This time it was about a week of doldrums, pain, negativity and actual physical illness, all of which I attribute to this illness called Bipolar Disorder. The worst part of a depressive episode,…

  

• In My Room

  1–2 minutes

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  09/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, concrete art, Creativity, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Flowers, Found Objects, garden art, gift, God, gratitude, Hope, Impressionist, Joy, learning, Mania, mental illness, Mixed Media, moving day, moving on, Murals, out of the gutter, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, painting, poems, promises, PTSD, Real Life, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, repurposed, Resurrection, sobriety, Success, Surrealism

  your home is your place to dream, to find peace and rest. A cocoon, a safe haven, an island in the storm… a place to create, to define, to highlight who you really are-in your own space. Welcome to mine… I always lived with others, my family, my husband, friends… I expressed my own style…

  

• The Door is Wide Open

  1–2 minutes

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  08/26/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, concrete art, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, digital art, dreams, Flashbacks, Found Objects, garden art, Injustice, Joy, learning, love, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mood Swings

  There are ideas percolating just beneath the surface of my consciousness. They are not fully fleshed out but the juices are flowing and I feel “on the verge” of a breakout work. What is a ‘breakout work’ you ask? Well, I’m asking too, and I believe there is a new direction coming. I have been…

  

• The Journey, a Debut Art Video

  3–5 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Cancer, career, caregiving, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, disability, dreams, 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, garden Photography, gift, God, gratitude, grief, Handicapped, Hope, hospice, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Jehovah God, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, mothers, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, re-purposed, Recovery, Healing, repentance, Resurrection, Serenity, Sex abuse, sexual assault, sobriety, Success, Teaching, Therapy, treasures, Uncategorized, Vigil

    .  This project was a couple years in the making for me, and was born from the bottomless grief I was dealing with then. As caregiver to both of my parents after a 23 year-long active addiction, and after a devestating breakup of my marriage when my ex went to Federal Prison, I was…

  

• Keep Your Head…and Mine Too

  2–3 minutes

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  07/08/2020

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, clean, Confidence!, Covid19, Creativity, death, Denial, digital art, dreams, Employment, Excellence, faith, Finances, 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, grief, Handicapped, HighFinance, Hope, identity, identity theft, Injustice, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, love, Making Money, Mania, Master, mental illness, metamorphosis, artist, love, change, recovery, rebirth, Mixed Media, pain, painting, Photography, poems, promises, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  …crack a smile or frown a frown…about the wonderful gift of creativity!