Category: ART GALLERY

Sweet Gardenia Folk Art

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Sweet, sweet Gardenia why won’t you smile?
The earth offers the power of blossoms as the
Heavens exhale in color
Sweet, sweet Gardenia, why won’t you open your eyes?
Crumbling soul, child of despair
Please I say, open your eyes.

Poem and painting are Copyright @ Sundrip.com All rights reserved

Painting details: 4 x 6 mixed media painting, wood crackle medium, black folk art child, eyes closed, purple and red dress. Signed, dated, mounted on black mat. A handwritten copy of the poem is included with the painting.

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F. Magdalene Austin

Moonlight Walker

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Early in the day I began sculpting a doll out of polymer clay. After baking her then going through the next step I had an idea for a painting pop in my head. I put the doll aside, got out my oil paints and a simple board and began throwing paint around. This is how Moonlight Walker began, an idea right in the middle of a different project.

Painting details: Asian style original oil  painting, expressionism, single poppy flower, figure walking away in the moonlight. Signed, dated, sealed, and mounted on black card stock.

Primary colors: blue, green, yellow hues, a few touches of red.

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Moonlight Walker- Sunday, October 02, 2011 – 5:38pm EST

Sisters in the Sun

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Wow, talk about letting your imagination fly and colors flow. Sisters in the Sun is a combination of geometic shapes, African animals then throws them together with cubism, surrealism and figurative styles. Some may see it as all over the styles while others will understand it to ’embrace’ the styles and celebrate them all.

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Painting stats: 12×12 textured card stock paper, mounted on black foam-core, cubism, surreal, African, sunflowers, black faces, figurative art in oil, acrylic and ink. Some details have been embossed.

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Five Sisters

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Five Sisters shows young African dressed woman standing in a burst of white light a top a flowing turquoise and deep blue hill. This is a high texture painting with some features embossed. Some areas of the painting were treated so that the paint would crackle. Movement, energy, womanhood and togetherness all come together in this painting called Five Sisters.

Painting Details: Faceless figures in African style dress, turquoise brush strokes, gold, red, royal purple, orange, ivory white light, high texture.
8×12 textured paper, acrylic, ink, wood crackling medium, sealed, signed, mounted.

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On the Rocks: A Fish Tale

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Friday evening I began to worry about my big fish Jocelyn because she was hovering above the rocks at the bottom of the tank. I went over in my head what could possibly be wrong with her. Old age isn’t the problem. Able to live up to 25 years she’s just a youngster at age six. She’s not been over fed, she’s not bloated, her bladder is healthy, what’s wrong? Usually the big fish is graceful and playful as she swims wit her two tank makes, but something has changed, something is off.

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Rochelle’s Dream – A Tin Foil Painting

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A little Caribbean girl’s dream is played out on 4×3 inch tin foil.
The foil was allowed to keep its “wrinkled” shape which adds texture and character to the piece.

Painting Details: Gold leaf dress, brightly colored headdress, small black ponytail, tall white flowers, blue and purple sky, big yellow sun and a small little happy girl skipping through rainbow colors at her feet.

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Yasmine, African-American Plastic Bag Holder Doll

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Earth Friendly Description: Micro-fiber hand made dress from sage colored recycled sofa throw. Hand formed clay pendant on hand strung beaded necklace. Handmade earnings, yarn hair from up cycled winter scarf. Hand drawn, hand painted facial features.

Specific  Stats: 22 inches long, dark green and brown eyes, sage colored micro fiber dress with cream colored trim, love knots made of yarn, beaded necklace with matching pendant.
Removable dress, hand-washable with mild soap.

************ NOTE ********* The last photographs show flowers in her hair and on the bottom of her skirt as an example of how the doll can be expanded to fit your decor. Flowers are not included but everything else is.

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Yasmin
African American Bag Doll
floral example

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Sculpted Child in Clay

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I love having a ton of projects all at once. Sometimes it feels like too much but other times it motivates me, keeps my spirit flowing. Recently I’ve been able to finish up several projects that sat on the back burner while I dealt with life. Life happens fast sometimes then it clams just enough to let you catch your breath and recharge. During my period of rest I finished 4 large projects. I have to say I’m kinda proud of myself.

There are yet 3 unfinished projects in the Sundrip Studio aka my living room. One such project is shown here. She’s a 10 inch doll hand sculpted out of cold clay.*Cold clay is clay you don’t fire.

Here’s what needs to be done to complete this doll and cross her off my artist’s to-do list. I need to work on her face more, add hands and decide on clothing. When I work on her face more I’m going to raise the eyebrows so she’s not frowning so much but, don’t expect a smile. To give her a smile would take away from what I’m trying to express.

Doll stats: hand sculpted, yarn hair, cold clay, 10 inches tall, a first for me. 🙂

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Faith-Magdalene Austin