THE GIFTED GIRL by db Waterman

Giftedness in a child is a skill that is significantly higher than in other children of the same age. Initially the focus was on intellectual giftedness, but has been expanded with a multitude of capacities.
Gifted children often develop asynchronously - their minds are often ahead of their physical growth, and specific cognitive and emotional functions are often at different stages of development. Giftedness is also often unevenly distributed across the different intellectual spheres. Thus, a person may qualify as gifted with exceptional math skills, yet be below average in spelling or verbal skills.

This expressionist artwork is made up of a drawing of a girl's face, overlaid with layers of previously made acrylic paintings. The layers are pieces of my collages and paintings that I have overlaid with Photoshop.

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I remembered that as a young girl I so much liked to cut images from magazines to paste them into school agendas, scrapbooks and even on my bedroom door. Add to this the fascination I always had for walls filled with old posters, flaking paint, scrappy billboards and weathered paint, it opened an unexpected door for completely new opportunities. Completely unintended I found a new way of working, I felt pleasurably and comfortably at home in. What started out as copying old walls with worn out posters has grown into many series of new visual storytelling. Not simply just eclecticism, but bringing together many seemingly incoherent story lines into one completely new story, my own personal story. Initially it lacked the one thing that is important to me, the transparency that normally only is possible with the use of watercolor. The unforgiving layering of transparent watercolors is a challenge I would not want to miss and after a lot of trial and error I finally succeeded in getting the collages as transparent as a watercolor. Every layer of paper, oil, acrylic, pencil, crayon, ballpoint, watercolor, ink, charcoal and whatever else I use, remains visible in the artwork. You can imagine it made me feel the queen of the ball !

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