Fulfilling feeling
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Collage and assemblage at http://vincentjunier.tumblr.com/
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“Self Reflection”
by Nina Klein
ninakleinart.tumblr.com
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Claudia Knoepfel
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Journals in many colors made from #upcycled leather.
by Brenda Braun: http://custm.co/tb/736
Get it?
I made these masks for a parade. There I am on the right.
Mount Rushmore photo sourced here.
KnownUnKnowns (by TheSoapFactory)
I was thinking about this cool show from back in November today. Realized I hadn’t ever watched the podcast they did on it, so I dug up this sweet video! I talk briefly about the 2 paintings that I had in the show at 12:00 in the video.
Watch the whole thing to learn about the lovely Soap Factory in Minneapolis, and the other artists!
Jason Collins’ announcement that he’s gay is making headlines across the internet.
As the first NBA player or major league male athlete to come, Collins’ announcement is amazing, exciting and truly courageous.
It’s also so bittersweet to read lines like “I’m a veteran, and I’ve earned the right to be heard.”
I want to say something about that here because it seems that tumblr is one of the many online hubs where gay youth congregate to read and create authentic accounts of each other’s desires, interests and social lives.
You don’t have to “earn” the right to be heard. You have that right right now and no one can take it away from you. Even if you don’t know or understand quite what you’re feeling or how you want to describe yourself yet - gay, bi, trans, queer, to name some labels - you are the only person who can tell your story, and that right belongs to you completely.
Sexual desires and romantic feelings are hard for all of us to put into words. It’s even harder as we negotiate the power that labels and terms hold for people with whom we may or may not identify.
If you don’t quite know how to speak yourself yet, that’s ok! You still have the right to be heard. You don’t need to change so that you’re easier to describe. And you don’t need to earn the right to be heard by being the “right” kind of gay, bi, trans or whatever kind of person.
You have the right to be heard, right now!
Love you, beauties!
Success! Two new prints in my Etsy shop, Painter Maker, where I sell my paintings and prints.
Both are 8” x 10” giclee prints of original paintings.
I’m so excited to be photographing and creating prints of many of my original paintings. In the next month or so, I’m getting a few of the big ones professionally photographed. Can’t wait!
1. Outdoor potting station 2. Pallet bed frame 3. Pallet table 4. Vertical pallet garden
I couldn’t wait to try my hand at a DIY pallet project when I first started to see these upcycling projects pop up all over the web.
The incentive to take on one of these DIY projects, for me, is the belief that I’m using something efficiently, beyond its original purpose. The whole point of a good upcycle is that it removes real, often environmentally-harmful waste from the system to create something useful and beautiful.
That’s why these projects are such a disappointment.
If you’ve ever actually handled a pallet, you know that this wood, though hardwood, is also the roughest, most splintery, and unevenly cut.
Yes, pallets get a bad rap for being one of those single-use, disposable cogs in the shipping and manufacturing waste machine. However, many are actually used over and over again in a closed loop system, and they are made from wood that isn’t used in other furniture making. Ultimately, they are also biodegradeable, unlike plastic or metal alternatives (see this interesting article about the pros and cons of wooden pallets).
Brick and Baubles Ashley Ramsey’s review of dangers of using upcycled pallets also brings up the point that pallets have been used to transport god-knows-what. They make a nice little habitat for bacteria, insects and vermin, too. (When you let your mouse hover over one of those pallet project links, just imagine that’s a real mouse. In your DIY pallet project.)
So maybe someday I will spends hours sanding and staining a pallet for one of these projects, although I doubt it.
And my advice to you? If someone ever tries to sell you a rough-ass $1,000 pallet bed, you tell them to go f* themselves (just kidding. Not.)
A month or so ago I rediscovered this old watercolor I had painted. This was before I ever started painting in oils. I really love how it turned out. Definitely adding prints of this to the Etsy shop soon!
Ahhh, nature.
This painting just wasn’t doing it for me, so I went back to the drawing board.
Yes, it’s pretty much completely different now. Sometimes it’s just for the best.
