@damianfreidwall.bsky.social
Because, clearly, the world needs yet another bald, bearded old man who thinks his taste in music, art, literature and sociopolitical ideas needs to be shared with people who don't know him, nor care to.
I decided to paint a still life picture. As someone who has had the black fog as an unwelcome companion, I pondered upon the effect of adding a question mark to the end of that prompt. That simple punctuation mark completely transformed its intent. Punctuation is powerful.
#art #mentalhealth
Susan Pevensie, now a grown woman, returns to Narnia on her own terms. She smokes, is fashionable and has seamed stockings and high heels. She hasn't "mended" her ways and the fauns of Narnia are thankful. The ornate carvings of the wardrobe, which she would not have seen as a child, show that she would never have been judged before. She was always welcome. She opens the doors and sees a faun waiting for her, with gifts and she enters Narnia to live out the rest of her days.
Lewis: "She is left alive in this world at the end, having by then turned into a rather silly, conceited young woman. But there's plenty of time for her to mend and perhaps she will get to Aslan's country in the end... in her own way".
"Mend"?!
Here, Susan returns, in her own way, unmended.
It has been 17 years since I had done any art. I lost my mojo, depression had become an unwelcome bedfellow and I decided that I was simply not good enough.
However, now I am jobless and homeless, I decided to get back to ot before it's too late.
#art #artist #fantasy #illustration
Fantasy art picture showing a man with his back to the viewer, sat outside an Inn, on the ground, looking despondent. His sword thrusted into the ground. His trusty dog is keeping an eye on some shifty looking men who are looking at the man. Some are inside the inn, others are waiting outside. All look to be up to no good.
Commissioned piece from 2008 which ended up being my last for 17yrs.
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Another oldie from 1998. It was intended to be the first of a series I was going to collectively call "Deflowered Fairies", a mischief upon the popular Flower Fairies which was still popular at that time, but I never got round to it. Might rectify that someday.
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A defiant Crusader proudly trots in a wild wood, a scroll of dogma clutched in his armored hand, completely unaware that the wild, feral faerie folk do not welcome him here. Phallic flora reach out to snare him. He will almost certainly not reach his destination...
With his finger firmly on the pulse of social media, this old man decides to make his first post here a picture he drew 27yrs ago. Probably some commentary on the irrelevance of dogma in the feral wilderness. But basically it's a rip-off of an Alan Lee pic, with added smut.
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