Category: pain

• 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…

  

• 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…

  

• Birds of Paradise

  3–4 minutes

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  01/05/2021

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  art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, Birds, Creativity, death, digital art, disability, dreams, faith, Flashbacks, garden art, gift, gratitude, grief, Hope, identity, Joy, love, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, pain, Photography, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, Transformation, whimsical art

  “…running to the window, still asleep, she fell thru the glass with a crash…”

  

• Eating Art

  2–4 minutes

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  12/20/2020

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  Addiction, art, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, career, Creativity, Denial, disability, dreams, Flashbacks, learning, Mania, mental illness, Mixed media, out of the gutter, outsider art, pain, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, sobriety, Success

  I eat a lot of my art. Great flow, free strokes, endless imagination…stuffed in my spare bedroom. “What spare bedroom?” You have a right to ask, especially when the door is always shut, the cat box takes center stage, there is no sign of any bed and the entire perimiter is taken up with painted…

  

• RESOLVING THE COMMISSION DILEMMA

  2–3 minutes

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  12/13/2020

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  acrylic, art, Art Collectors, Artistic Excellence, Assemblage, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, concrete art, Creativity, digital art, dreams, Excellence, Finances, Flowers, garden art, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Investing in Art, Job, Joy, learning, Making Money, Management, Mania, Marketing Stategy, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mood Swings, moving day, moving on, Murals, out of the gutter, pain, painting, promises, PTSD, recycled art, repurposed, Saving Money, sobriety, Success, Therapy, treasures

  Stuck in the Barnyard “OLD McDONALD HAD A COMMISSION…Oh no, Oh no, Oh no……” So, I had a “Patron”, and I am envisioning a relationship similar to Michaelangelo had with The Pope.. Endless coffers, freedom of expression in my own magnificent style, expensive dining and and more and more projects to work on. What 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…”

  

• AM I FAMOUS YET?

  2–4 minutes

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  11/12/2020

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  art, Best, Bipolar Art, Bipolar Disorder, caregiving, cats, Childhood sexual abuse, Chronic Depression, Creativity, disability, Employment, Finances, Flashbacks, gift, gratitude, Handicapped, Hope, identity, Injustice, insomnia, Joy, love, Mania, Master, mental illness, Mixed Media, Mixed media, out of the gutter, pain, painting, PTSD, Recovery, Healing, recycled art, Serenity, shih-tzus, sobriety, Teaching, Therapy

  “…I was a rebel…not knowing thousands of feet had gone down that same road days…months…centuries before…”