It is common for me to blast color on paper, edge to edge with twisting and twirling images. Sometimes though, I paint art for children. The showcase piece today is called “Becoming Me”. Two other pieces are included in this entry as children’s art.
Category: Innocence Gallery
The compliment
What is the best compliment you’ve ever gotten about your work? I purchased your art for an unborn child. It’s her first art piece. It gave me shivers and touched me deeply enough to make tears fall. Someone thought well enough of my art to make it a present for a…
The Wanderer – On Fallen Trees
The Wanderer is a nature scene of a young black boy sitting on a tree stump. His shirt is the same color as the roots of the trees that continued to grow the day I wandered into the woods through a host of fallen trees. I couldn’t believe the color….
Iesha – She who lives
In a village or town somewhat far from here lives a mother and father who work hard and feed their family with food sufficient for each day. They go about sweeping, sewing, mending and patching, etching out life. They scurry here and there, rushing this one, readjusting that one, forgetting…
Sunflowers Bless My Home
Sunflowers Bless My Home was super fun. She’s bright and beautiful, dreamy and just fun! A young girl stands with her arm out stretched with a large sunflower winding around her arm until it comes to an arch over the house of music. Green leaves touch the deep blue and…
It’s a Good Day
This painting was even more simple before it’s final brush strokes. The young woman at first stood at the top of a hill and with courage looked down at what could be if only she had the courage to take the first few steps. This version, the final, shows her…
Present
Present and accounted for. I am here. Painting details: She is coming of age and realizing her value. She is made of every fine gem and precious metal hue. Her hair stands tall like that of a sunflower, her eyes look straight ahead into the now and the future. Dripping…
Sweet Anna Bell – Ugly Girl
She’s been a long time coming. I don’t know why it took so long to finish her but, here she is. I present to you, ‘Sweet Anna Bell – Ugly Girl.’ Scribbled on the back of the paper she’s painted on dated June 10, 2013, I wrote: She’s tall, skinny…
That Young Girl
Title: That Young Girl Art by: F. Magdalene Austin 6×8 canvas board, acrylic and ink painting, original SOLD She’s washed in color, draped in it. Her sad eyes look out at the viewer not for assistance but to offer it, to offer and explanation. This painting is in expression of life…
Petunia
There’s a little egg shaped child, with big brown eyes, dressed in purple, standing by sunflowers. She calls herself Petunia.