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Little Catholic Heart by =joeyv7:iconjoeyv7:

Categories Digital Art > Paintings & Airbrushing > Surreal

©2009 =joeyv7
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I was raised Catholic in my early years before we left my birth father. One of the most lasting memories is a little book we studied, a book for children about good and evil. When a child would make a wrong decision and sin, his or her heart acquired a little black spot. It's one of the most enduring images I took from my childhood, and I can't do a heart without including a dark spot on it.
Likely for Scraps, Jim Dine I'm not :hmm:

This is part of WIP with :iconninaste: He created the lineart for the heart, the little binding ropes haven't been worked on yet.

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*Arzhez Jun 17, 2009, 3:53:59 AM
This really question me :jawdrop: It is a complicate painting, looks like an electric bulb on an hand, and on the other hand it is a heart nested between the lungs, and there is mysterious lines across, , and why catholic? is it your heart?
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~artemis62 Jun 17, 2009, 4:42:18 AM
I was raised Catholic as well, and I believe I remember (very dimly!) what you're referring to! What a wonderful picture -- it's very touching to me ...
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=Stardust-Splendor Jun 17, 2009, 4:55:48 AM
So simple and yet so beautiful. :aww: :heart:

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Mood: Love =lilyhbp Jun 17, 2009, 4:59:35 AM
It`s very lovely, sad and sweet... that spot would dissapear with all the good things I`ve seen you do in DA!!! Because, the good erases the bad you know ....

You know I am catholic and I undestand this image more than you would know... :+favlove:
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Mood: Love *pixelwitch Jun 17, 2009, 5:15:30 AM
This is lovely and I hope you don't move it to scraps!
I love your little black-spotted heart! :heart:

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*mybreathingselfagain Jun 17, 2009, 6:22:36 AM
"There's a little black spot on the sun :sun: today", sang Sting, when he was still in the Police, and I, for some reason, always made "There's a little black spot on my heart :heart: today", in my mind.
I was raised catholic, too, and I learned I could never be pure enough for that spot or the Sin I had inherited from Eve to be erased.
Well, a heart with spots to me is always more beautiful than one that has never seen any pain or evil. It is maybe only by knowing dark that the light (or all the interesting scales of gray) can become a choice :).
I love the colours of this!

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`DiegoTripodi Jun 17, 2009, 6:43:57 AM
It's a very striking image, I think. I grew up among Catholic people as well, and I came to the conclusion, as I got older, that Catholicism is built around guilt-- they just want to make people feel bad everything, for the love of god! =P
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*MrsGraves Jun 17, 2009, 7:01:19 AM
Lovely piece!!!

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~Nikya2t Jun 17, 2009, 8:00:00 AM
Pretty :D! They say in results of an research that Catholic people are more creative than Protestants people . That's really cool tho isn't it ? :D xD
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