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Libby’s HeARTwork

@libbysheartworks

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Painting with my H💗ART because my eyes are broken
👩🏻‍🎨Self-Taught+Vis👁️ually Impaired
#cornealectasia
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I used to dream I was Wendy & Peter Pan would come whisk me away to Never Never land so I could just be a kid & laugh & play forever....

Now I just wanna sleep & paint most of the time... 🙃 🧚🏼‍♀️ 🎨

UPDATE: WOOOWOWOWIWE!!!🥹😭🥰😘😘😘 You guys are fuking amazing!!!💕
I never dreamed this silly little reel my husband helped me do would blow up like it has!! I've been floored EVERY DAY for 2 months now to see more & more likes, shares & saves on this!!🥹🥹🥹
And for the middle aged mom with severe corneal issues that has a really hard time seeing and has always had this crazy dream of being a famous artist, if this is the closest I get to that, I'll be a happy girl the rest of my life.

As a thank you, I'd love to offer prints of this painting I've named, "Off To Never Never Land" to everyone for $15+ shipping.
Please Dm me if you're interested as I'm about to open my online shop back up & share many more pieces with you all that I've kept hidden for years now...
#dreamsdocometrue✨
#nevergiveup💪
#offtoneverland

#momartist #iwannabeafamousartist #peterpan #neverneverland #wendybird taken in Never-Never Land by @libbysheartworks

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Sometimes I still find myself very sad that the dreams I had for myself are not the dreams God had planned for me.
At least it seems not now.
I started this painting over two years ago soon after I got my first pair of scleral contact lenses. It began as something completely different & ended up as this. This little glimpse of peaceful beach and garden scene overlooking the ocean. My little piece of heaven, my happy place…..
This is still the largest painting I’ve ever made. When I found the impasto painting style back then I fell even more in love with painting. It was perfect for me. See these eyes of mine don’t work like yours, they never have. So I’ve always had to use my sense of touch, my intuition. Because I can’t trust with my eyes, however I can always trust what I feel.
And this feels like the ending of a book I never even got to finish writing.

-Libby
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Bob Moses -Enough

Wondering where to begin
Loneliness rises again
All I knew isn't right for me now
Oh, I've nowhere to turn

Heaven isn't holding my hand
Hoping I can make it to the end
I wasn't looking for a phantom or a friend
Tryna find an answer in the wind
I keep feeling like I'm rushing to the end
Looking for a good place to begin
But will I ever know I'll never know

All I want is enough to believe
But they said there was no guarantee
All I knew is you're here for me now
I look up at the stars taken in Surf City, U.S.A. by @libbysheartworks

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On September 15, 2020 at 40 years old I got to see what our world really looks like for the first time. I got to see the vibrancy of #color ! I got to see the clarity of structures, shadows of flowers, the contrast between light & dark. I got to see the absolute splendor of detail in our world. Little ants crawling along the ground, the details of vines in leaves is something I hope my minds eye will never forget. I remember seeing our sunset in my beautiful Pacific Ocean. I remember the white foam gathering up on the shore in such intricate patterns.My 3 children’s faces were never so gorgeous.The look on my husband’s face as he watched me raise my head to look for him from the chair for the first time. When I first saw the tiniest details in his eyes looking back at me.
The pure joy, the bliss, the extreme #gratefulness I’m overcome with that I felt that day is with me every time I put my #sclerallenses in. I’m still amazed at the difference of my #eyesight with these lenses vs glasses. You may wonder if you’re reading this far what happened to her eyes? It’s a very long story.It begins with a little 6 yr old girl who had to wear #glasses to see to a new mother who was told at 6 weeks postpartum PRK eye surgery was the only way to save her severely myopic #astigmatism ridden eyes...so she did it, trusting her dr...it ends with this woman learning she’s been lied to for over 20 years by multiple eye drs. The true diagnosis? It may just be #fuchsdystrophy ,a genetic mutation that leads to blindness.The only solution being corneal transplants. For now these lenses allow me to see. Not just see, but have the most phenomenal vision I’ve ever been graced with.

So although I may not have the best working eyes to do #artwork, I have a deep passion for #creating what I see in my mind & feel in my heart. That’s what I paint with.

I hope you stay to watch what I create with these new eyes.

☺️🙏🏼🌟🎨💖 taken in Grateful Heart by @libbysheartworks

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Hi everyone, I’m Libby. 👋
This is how I found me.
I found me in the depths of my own fashioned misery.
I found myself in my pain, in the heart wrenching moments when I felt abandoned by life itself.
I found myself in rainy days spent cuddling on the couch with my kids when they were still small enough I could hold them in my arms.
When I wiped away my own tears because no one else was there for me.
I found me when everyone left, when I pushed them all away, when no one was left but me & Jesus.
I found me when I died. When I wa sent back with such a strong passionate mission.
I found me in that forest away from my ocean. I found myself in the laughter & giddiness of singing my soul out to God.
I found myself in paintings, in cooking & baking & cleaning. In the mundane every day workings of life.
I’ve struggled too much. I’ve survived too much. I’ve gained too much knowledge. I’ve shared parts of me with people who didn’t deserve me. I’ve lived in a body cursed by EDS. I’ve lived in a body blessed by EDS. I’ve wasted my eyesight looking at useless things.
I’ve just feels like I’ve lived so long it feels like I’ve lived several lives all at once.
I’m glad I traded scrolling through news channels for lifting weights.
I traded vaping for sunflower seeds.
I traded my past for my future.

In 12 days I’ll celebrate my 4 year anniversary of the night I died. The night I truly was reborn. The night that brought me almost full circle back to my ocean, back to my beach, back to where it all began - before I knew me.

When you pray for a new life - don’t be surprised when God gives it to you. Be blessed you lived to tell everyone you got a 2nd chance for the 9th time.

I am falling in love with myself.
Finally.

#edswarrior #neardeathexperience #jesuschristislord #newlifeinchrist taken in Huntington Beach- Surf City USA by @libbysheartworks

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Life is like a sea turtle sometimes you just don’t know how you’re gonna make it through so BUY MY ART okay thanks bye

@libbysheartworks

#seaturtles #oceanlove #oilpaintingoncanvas #buyartfromlivingartists #seaturtlelove taken in SCV by @libbysheartworks

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Humans suck - the ocean doesn’t🐢🌊

Since life has really kicked my 🍑 lately, I decided I needed to leave the whole human life thing for a while & go underwater, so here we are.

First underwater ocean scene ever.
Next up mermaids 🧜‍♀️, coral 🪸 reefs, schools of fish 🐠 & sea shells 🐚

Who wants which one???
DM ME

I missed painting 👩🏻‍🎨

@libbysheartworks

#spoonieartist #creatingfromyouressence #visuallyimpairedartist #buyartfromlivingartists #momartist taken in SCV by @libbysheartworks

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From my HeART to yours. ♥️ 🌊 🏖️
Because broken eyes don’t make art, my ♥️ does.

All artwork is available for purchase.
Oil paint on canvas & canvas panel. These are all original paintings with a few prints thrown in.
DM me for serious inquiries only please.

@libbysheartworks

#oilpaintingsoncanvas #oilartist #christmasgiftidea #homedécor #wallartlovers #beachartist #cornealectasia #dryeye #postlasikectasia #spoonieartist
#buyartfromlivingartists #mitralvalveprolapse #edswarrior taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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If you’re in the SCV area today come by & see me!

@libbysheartworks

#visuallyimpaired #spoonieartist #visuallyimpairedartist #creatingfromyouressence #buyartfromlivingartists #oilpainting #momartist #cornealectasia #momartist taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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My eyes may be broken, but my heart sees.

Work in progress.
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#sunsetpainting #beachpainting #socalartist #momartist #spoonieartist #cornealecstatia #visuallyimpairedartist #socalartist #laartist #fingerpainting taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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My heArt on display today. 👩🏻‍🎨💕

Dm me to stop by.
@libbysheartworks

#artworkfrommyheart #oilartist #landscapeartist #seascapeart #spoonieartist #spooniemom #edswarrior #cornealectasia #visuallyimpairedartist #buyartfromlivingartists #mitralvalveprolapse taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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She’s done! 🌊
What should I name her??

Commissioned piece.

@libbysheartworks

#oilartist #oilpainter #artistmom #scvartist #laart #scvsmallbusiness #supportlocalartists #buyartfromlivingartists #visuallyimpairedartist #spooniemom #spoonieartist taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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Work in progress👇🏼
Next we add the 🦈, 🐢 & some seagulls (no emoji 🥲)

What should I name this commissioned piece?

How does it make you feel?

#visuallyimpairedartist #spoonieartist #momartist #laartist #creatingfromyouressence #buyartfromartists #artistsupportpledge #creatingfromyouressence #ecstaiapostlasik #cornealectasia taken in Los Angeles, California by @libbysheartworks

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