SOUL portraits
Let’s make these paintings all about you
Each one is so unique it matches you from the inside out, soul and spirit, now and then
If you’re into mysteries, like the one you are, these commissioned works of art are you, the center piece of the wall.
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The story of the Soul Portrait was born from a very infuriating moment. I was to meet friends for the night and they all dissed me. We were doing a crazy “speak with a psychic night”. Since I was already there and drove the hour, I decided to make a night of it.
I signed up with the first psychic that had an open space. He was an odd-looking older fellow, and as I sat down in the chair opposite of him, I noticed he moved his hands from the table to the sanitizer bottle and pumped it 2 times. After rubbing it in he dropped his hands palm ups on the table, looked me in the eye and said, “well, take my hands.” I was so put off, mind you this was 2010, long before hand sanitizer was the norm of the pandemic culture. I instantly felt like I was tainted.
He began speaking, rambling, speculating and I sat there listening. Then he says, “Your art is just too colorful and happy. It’s awful art.” It took my breath away. I respect people being honest with their feelings that come up around me and my talents, but that…them thar fightin’ words. “OH!” I respond, “then what?” He said that I need to “paint darker, black. Not so happy, just not that horrible bright color stuff.”
I was so happy when the 20-minute timer went off. Hearing the ding, pulled my hands back with respite and a torte “thank you”. I left murmuring “I’ll show you. You want black, I can paint black”.
I’m always up to proving someone hasn’t a clue about what I can and can’t do. And with a great welling-up of emotions from anger to bliss, to sadness and resolve, I took a blank canvas panel and painted it completely black and waited. What I experience were connections to art, to soul and the universe.
Yes, sounds unorthodox, yet, in life we are more, more than defined by others, and what I and the persons who have purchased a Soul Portrait, whether to do inner work, or have a cool piece of art work that’s a great conversation ‘all about you’ center piece; it’s a visual story of known and unknown.
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$396 + tax and shipping/handling
Receive:
Original Soul Portrait on a 16x20 acrylic painted canvas panel. Panels are painted edge to edge.
A flash drive with a color and black and white JPEG of the work of art as well as any insights including songs, out-of-the-norm sounds heard while painting, concepts, ideas and thoughts that popped in with being painted.
Your Soul Portrait will look nothing like the ones painted that are shown here as how unique and profoundly different each one is. These are just to honor your senses as to the idea of your Soul Portrait.
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Ready to commission your very own soul portrait? Contact me! Pricing is $396 + tax and shipping/handling.
