Featured Art: Dual Complexity
Woohoo! You get to see this first! This week I created a video explaining what inspired the creation of my painting Dual Complexity. I’m sharing this with you first (well, technically YouTube first, but that’s only because I need to put it on YouTube so that I can share it here).
I finally found the courage to talk about this painting for the strangest reason. A few weeks ago I was in a workshop with other psychic mediums where we took a few minutes every day of the workshop to practice with the other students. One person who was reading my aura told me about this “duality” in my personality, and how I often feel that most of the people in my life only know one half of me.
I created this painting in 2018, so at the time that I created this video in 2021, nearly three years have passed. Wow! No one else had ever recognized this about me before, and when I created this painting and gave it its name, no one truly understood it. Possibly I didn’t even fully understand it yet. This is why I love being part of the psychic mediumship community. We know each other even when we have never met before.
©August 2018, Francesca Bandino, Dual Complexity. Acrylic on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 40x30x.8 inches.
People's Choice Winner
Wow! I am so honored to have been selected as the top six out of over 175 artists at the Rockland Arts Virtual Festival. I am humbled because I didn’t really believe it was a possibility for me. I couldn’t have done it without the help of all those wonderful souls who have been supporting me throughout my artist journey.
Our reward for winning is that the Rockland Arts Festival will market us each throughout their various platforms. The promotional video that they created for me is below.
The pictures and paintings included in this video are as follows:
The picture of me is by Clara Wang Photography.
Delicate Beauty, ©2018, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches
Fig Leaves, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 24x20x.8 inches
Dual Complexity, ©2018, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches
The Matriarch, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 40x30x.8 inches
Evergreen, ©2020, Acrylic on canvas, 24x20x1.5 inches
Paradise, ©2019, Acrylic on canvas, 40x40x1.5 inches
The rest of the pictures were selected by Rockland Arts Festival
Thanks for watching and thanks for voting! I appreciate you.
Featured Art: Evergreen
My painting Evergreen was accepted into the Rockland Virtual Arts Festival from April 1 - 30, 2021. As part of my participation, I created a video that lasted less than two minutes describing my painting. Here I talked more about the process than the feelings involved. You can watch the video below. It is on the Rockland Arts Festival Youtube channel.
What got cut out of the video is the meaning behind the painting. I use a lot of my representational work as metaphors for my feelings, experiences, and opinions. Evergreen is about our inner strength. It’s about our ability to go through the harshest of times, all the while discovering the inner strength that helps us to make it through.
©February 2020, Francesca Bandino, Evergreen. Acrylic on Canvas, 24x20x1.5 inches.
In situ image by Francesca Bandino
When the Angels guide my hands
A fellow Medium friend of mine once told me that the Angels showed her how they guide my hands when I paint. I completely trust her intuitive gifts, however, I'm a see-it-to-believe-it kind of person. It wasn't till I noticed something outside of myself moving my hands while working in the studio that I understood the message that she had delivered to me.
A fellow Medium friend of mine once told me that the Angels showed her how they guide my hands when I paint. I completely trust her intuitive gifts, however, I'm a see-it-to-believe-it kind of person. It wasn't till I noticed something outside of myself moving my hands while working in the studio that I understood the message that she had delivered to me.
Work in progress Number 1 for White Light.
I started working on this abstract painting in December 2020 when I attended the Gathering of the Creatives virtually. My experience at this full weekend workshop was an absolutely spiritual artistic adventure for me. It felt like my soul had reached another level in both the creative and the spiritual parts of my life, and that these two parts had finally united. However, I was really confused about the approach to this painting. When I work on abstracts, there is raw emotion behind the process, but there was none of that here initially. So I continued to make marks and add layers, wondering where I was going with this.
Work in progress Number 2 for White Light.
Work in progress Number 3 for White Light.
Work in progress Number 4 for White Light.
Eventually, I did what many painters have to do at some point in their careers. I made some big brush strokes across the canvas to intentionally ruin the piece. I knew that I couldn’t make the painting worse, so I would only move up from there. I was still confused about the painting, but it helped me to express the movement that I felt onto the canvas. I added a message to myself and then worked to cover it up. Ultimately I was very happy with the colors I chose and the way the squares overlapped each other, I was happy with the movement and the feeling of joy, but there was still something missing. I did what I normally do when I'm not sure of where I'm going - I left it alone.
Work in progress Number 5 for White Light.
Work in progress Number 6 for White Light.
One morning in March while I was in meditation, I asked God, the Angels, and Spirit one of my usual questions: What would you have me do today? I immediately saw an image of how I was going to complete this painting. They showed me how I would make a big creamy scribble with pigment sticks. It wasn't my studio day, but I went into the studio for something else and that's when I saw this canvas again. I had a sudden urge to pick it up and do as I had been guided to do. I took my pigment stick out and I started to scribble the top line.
Work in progress Number 7 for White Light.
Work in progress Number 8 for White Light.
I began to smudge the pigment with my fingertips (it's a very creamy consistency) and it was at this point that I realized that I hadn’t even been looking at what I was doing. I had no control. My hands were being guided. Then I decided to make a second scribble below and again I began to smudge the pigment. This time my hands didn't need to be guided because I knew exactly what needed to be done. When I brought the canvas into the natural light, I realized that what I had created looked to me like God's White Light. It truly was a magical experience.
©2021, Francesca Bandino, White Light. Acrylic, oil, and wax on Gallery Wrapped Canvas, 24x18x1.5 inches.
Featured Art: Soothingness
This week I shared a video explaining what inspired the creation of my painting Soothingness. This time the formatting is just right because I needed to fit both myself and the painting in the screen.
Thanks for watching! Did I help you understand the inspiration behind this painting? Let me know in the comments section!
Also, click on the image below to shop this painting.
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