Just when you thought you’d seen it all, Italian artist Cristina Guggeri comes along and blows it out of the water with her latest series called Il Dovere Quotidiano, or “The Daily Duty”. In this series, Guggeri sets out to ‘humanize’ the world’s leaders by imaging what they might look like on the toilet. And she’s […]
I have been wanting to do a configurations box for quite a while now, but they are not easy to get here in Austria and shipping costs (even from Germany) are rather expensive due to the size. As we will get a brand new kitchen at the end of May, we have been browsing through our kitchen cupboards to get rid of everything too much (which was quite a lot to be honest). On this occasion I found a wooden box that once held three knives. I thought it to be the perfect size for a wall hanging configuration tray (or whatever one should call it). I made the compartments using glue, thick corrugated card and Tim Holtz tissue tape. Then I filled the compartments with Tim Holtz papers cut exactly to size and covering all five sides of each single "box". The outside was covered using a dictionary style washi tape. At that stage it looked way too clean and neat (even though I chose the TH papers for a rather grungy look) - so I gave the whole tray a rough treatment with Mr. Huey's color mists opaque white and dark calico and a lot of dapping and whiping, adding colour here, taking some off there. (I admit I really was afraid of spoiling hours of work with that step - but it worked out - even better than expected! The tray looked pretty grungy and timeworn by then. I created a wire hanging for the tray trying not to be too exact with bending and curling. There - my wall hanging tray was ready. At that stage I still did not know what to fill it with. Maybe a lot of TH goodness? Or do some heavy embellishing with tickets collected on our various holiday trips? Hm. I started to browse through my beach findings again and then the idea just hit my mind: I have been collecting fossils, stones, shells and nature finds in general since I can think and my son does the same now. In his room he has two showcases filled with self gathered "nature treasures" and "loaned" finds and more treasures from me and my husband. I decided to use some of them for my wall hanging. And voila! I very much enjoyed translating Ovid's "Metamorphosis" in school and have been loving the meaning of this word ever since (and use it quite often to be honest ;). So I enter SSSS's "quotable" challenge with this project. I also enter Country View Crafts' challenge "Pick and mix - anything goes" and also Simon Says Stamp challenge "anything goes". Most of the treasures were collected during our hiking trips, some of them were bought at the annual fossil show and some are very special "specials" :) For example the stone my son painted when he was maybe four or five years old, trying to make it look like an insect enclosed in amber: Or the beetle I collected in the lovely Wienerwald. Except the big trilobite all the fossils are "self-found"! We have a great spot near Vienna where one can find them quite easily. The shark tooth and the pearl are from a geological museum site a bit up the Danube, where a huge prehistoric mussel bed was discovered which proves that there once was ocean nearby our place! Kids can filter shark teeth and pearls in a huge sandpit there. The deserted cocoon in the upper right box is from a Death's Head Hawkmoth we found as a huge (really huge!) caterpillar when cutting our hedges. We took it home with us and prepared a container with some soil and leaves from the hedge and it dug itself in after two days of feeding. It spent the whole winter this way stored on our bedroom's window sill as this is the coldest room of our flat. We could see it at the very bottom of our container, twitching from time to time. One day in spring (when we had stopped to believe that it had survived) we had a really beautiful big hawkmoth sitting in the container. I learned that Death's Head Hawkmoths appear quite rarely at our regions and travel far distances from Africa to southern Europe. Just HAVE to show you the image! Isn't he beautiful (and big)? As we found the caterpillar in our garden on the very first day we entered it and this is such a wonderful thing to remember I hope it will be okay if I enter the Craft Room challenge "In Our Garden - Anything but a card" with this project. Back to the wall hanging: I stamped some words that came to my mind while watching the filled tray onto card that I had given an aged look in advance, cut them out and glued them to the frame. Done! Some more close-ups which I hope you will enjoy: I hope you will forgive me my picture- AND word-heavy post this time! Thank you very much for stopping by!!! Hugs, die amelie x
cclectic collections (or vignettes) tell a story about the owner of the collection. They are able to create a high-impact visual for boring corners in any room and it’s a go-to trick for any interior-designer to add some drama. The …
An ink color sample page from a Japanese sample catalog of matchbox cover designs, most likely from the 1960s. This very scarce catalog is currently available from the Boston Book Company. An early kimono color combination chart for layered clothing from Vintage Printables. Gem color chart which appears to be partially hand stenciled. From Vintage Printables. A personal color atlas from British artist William Gilpin (1724-1804). His sketchbook titled Hints to Form The Taste & Regulate Ye Judgement in Sketching Landscape is from 1790. From the Yale Center of British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Lichen color charts from the Svensk Lafvarnas Farghistoria by Johan Peter Westring. Printed in 1805-09. Via the Biodiversity Heritage Library archive. A comparative tomato gradient to incite tomato envy. From Present & Correct. A 1944 color chart from The Technique of Colour Printing by Lithography: A Concise Manual of Drawn Lithography by Thomas E. Griffits, Faber and Faber. From the Crossett Library Flickrstream. A 1942 Color Harmony Manual by Egbert Jacobson Color Laboratories Division, Container Corporation of America. From the Crossett Library Flickrstream. The toast gradient scale from Things Organized Neatly.
Il gabinetto del giovane naturalista /. Milano :Presso Omobono Manini,1825-1826.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41437573
Maissa Toulet is a French artist inspired by collage and assemblage. She describes herself as being a collector; from her collecting passion Toulet began to create art, using the objects she had f…
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Ayer , 19 de noviembre, fue el Día Internacional del Inodoro. Hoy en "Baños Estilos" te traemos una selección de los inodoros más raros y curiosos del mundo.
Paris-based artist Maissa Toulet's Curiosity Cabinets are quirky little worlds encased in glass, where animal and people parts mingle with plant life and
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Paris-based artist Maissa Toulet's Curiosity Cabinets are quirky little worlds encased in glass, where animal and people parts mingle with plant life and
biomedicalephemera: The Vertebrate Skeleton. Sidney R. Reynolds, 1897.
This set is loaded with 86 separate images with which to make a witch's apothecary. There are all kinds of labels, book spines and covers, and elements to decorate a cabinet. These are files with separate images, not a collage sheet. All of the images in the set can be re-sized for your project as they are high resolution (300dpi) PNG formatted images. I've included pictures of a sample project using these images. Hop over to my YouTube Channel for the series of tutorials on how to construct this sample apothecary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8q1unJtao&list=PLhB_iPcC8_U_xBRoIn8YDqqf0Tv9EEwH_ The images are in a .PNG format that has a transparent background so are easy to layer over other digital images. You can open .PNG files using most image management programs like Photoshop Elements. Digital collage sheets and digital images can be saved to your computer and printed as many times as you wish. You will receive the images in three zipped files. The watermark does not appear on the final version. Once checkout is complete and payment is confirmed, you will have instant access to the digital image set. NOTE: This listing is just for the image set and not the sample project On my blog Artfully Musing, you'll find lots of samples and tutorials and video tutorials to go along with all of my collage sheets and digital image sets. TERMS OF USE YOU MAY: *Incorporate the images in any type of product (except those listed below). *Sell the items you create in any venue, including Etsy. *Post pictures of the items you create online. YOU MAY NOT: *Share the images with others or on websites, forums, peer-to-peer networks or anywhere else. *Use the images to create collage sheets or digital image sets. *Resell the images individually or in another digital or printed collection. *Sell the images as stickers or prints. *Use the images on sites like Zazzle or Cafe Press. *Use the images in manufactured or mass-produced goods *Post the images online unless they are part of a new creation. *Use the images on shop banners, business cards and, business branding. INSTANT DOWNLOAD: *If you have an Etsy account, after your purchase you’ll see a View your files link which goes to the Downloads page. Here, you can download all the files associated with your order. *Downloads are available once your payment is confirmed. If you paid with PayPal or a credit card on Etsy, confirmation might take a few minutes. *Etsy will also send you a download notification email separate from any transaction notification emails you receive from Etsy and/or PayPal. *If you're unsure if you've purchased a Digital Item, you can always go back to the listing page. If it is a digital download, you should see an "Instant Download" message on the images for the item. *Please note that you can't download a digital purchase through the Etsy app at this time. To download a digital file, please sign in to Etsy on your mobile browser or a non-mobile computer. *If you checked out as a guest, you'll find a link to download your purchase in the receipt email that was sent to you after purchase. *If you are having problems downloading your purchase, please contact me and I will assist you.
Paris-based artist Maissa Toulet's Curiosity Cabinets are quirky little worlds encased in glass, where animal and people parts mingle with plant life and
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