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Believe In You

8/20/2021

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Believe in You

"Believe in You" - mixed media on cradled wood panel, 8 x 16 x 1.5.  Ready to hang.  Available Sept 5-6 at Artistic Souls Gallery.

“Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us.”
Claudia Bakker.


​Recently, I've felt like a unicorn.

No, not the fuzzy beauty with the luxurious mane and the rainbow poop.  My version has tangled hair, droopy eyes, a clumsy gait and an occasional belch.  Not a pretty unicorn.  Pretty gangly and inelegant.  The queen of awkward.

We all have these moments of inelegant humanness (or unicornness, in this case), and it's ok.  It's what you do with it - that's who you are (quoting Abner from the local play "OK Abner").  Those moments are when the inner critic wants to elbow her way in and make you doubt everything about yourself, even the brilliant stuff.

Upon reading the above quote, I wondered if I might want to develop an inner unicorn as well - one who believes in me and thinks I am the most magical of rare beings?  Maybe the critic and the unicorn could battle it out while I enjoy a peaceful cup of coffee. :)
About the art:  beginning with a colored-pencil sketch on gesso'd wood, adding layers upon layers and watching her personality emerge.  A little sprinkling of gold leaf on the horn, and a tidying layer of paint.
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Carl Stoveland link
8/20/2021 02:24:05 pm

Boy do I need an inner unicorn. Another artist I know today called my work cute…. Uggghhh I wanted to take my marbles and go home. Then I took a deep breathe and realized it was not about me or my work just the other artists need to feel bigger than. So I let it go and went back to painting.

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lola (jen)
8/20/2021 02:45:35 pm

Carl! My art has been called cute (and some of it is) but also creepy, weird, peculiar, etc. One artist even called it "not art". My goal is now to collect all the words ! ha!

Your art is spectacular. My inner unicorn says so.

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Dotty Seiter link
8/20/2021 02:39:44 pm

Oh! the depth of inelegant humanness (or unicornness, in this case) in that face, in those eyes, in that set of chin, line of lips, tilt of head. oh. oh. oh.

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lola (jen)
8/20/2021 02:46:15 pm

Dotty! Thank you my lovely friend. The depth of inelegant humanness. Oy.

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Carol Edan link
8/21/2021 12:59:08 am

"one who believes in me and thinks I am the most magical of rare beings?" YOU ARE! And don't let an unicorn or other tell you otherwise. So there!

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Carol Edan link
8/21/2021 01:01:48 am

Wow, got posted with no test of chimneys or fire hydrants!

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lola (jen)
8/21/2021 02:13:37 pm

Carol! omg lady, you made me smile SO BIG! Thank you friend! And here's to no more fire hydrant tests! ha ha!

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Sylvia Larkin link
8/21/2021 10:04:43 am

I love your version of the unicorn~I am very partial to burl wood and bones.Love how you combined it all.Even a painting! Woa!

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lola (jen)
8/21/2021 02:14:11 pm

Sylvia! Thanks, lady! Now that I have a special bone glue...anything can happen!

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