Brainstorm: February 2013

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Recycled material bracelets

Recycled jewelry! The list of ideas is endless! Making jewelry or any wearable things from recycled material is always fun and exciting, especially when people ask is that made from...? Love it! So many ideas.. here are a few bracelet ideas..

Bookspine cuffs

Rainwheel- cuffs made from painted old leather belts

Elke Munkert Tennis ball bangles

Metal ruler bangle from jacqvon on Etsy

Tape measure bangles

Tea cup bracelet- Lindsay Pemberton

Fabric covered water bottle cuffs

Vintage wooden button bracelet

Braided zipper bracelet

Denim and thread

Denim bracelet

Recycled Magazine Eco Friendly Bangle Bracelet - Urban Jungle

Comic book bracelet

Littlefly: Bracelet from paper

Liz Hall- 'Tribal Series Mosaic Bracelet'-

Brass cuff, polymer opal, faux wood, black and white cane slices, silver beads embedded in black grout.

Sweater bangles

Spoon handle

Smashed knitting needle bracelets

Smashed knitting needle bracelets- comes in other textures (dimples, arrows, wallpaper, spirals, leaves and dots)

Plastic bottle bracelets

Camera lens bracelet

Braided plastic bag bracelet

Zipper bracelets

Bracelets from plastic bottles:

Friday, February 22, 2013

Craig Alan- People as pixels portraits

At first glace these portraits look as though they are arial photographs of people placed carefully to create the image, however Craig Alan has painted each person into place to bring the image together. Amazing, looks very realistic and so clever! I love this kind of art. Using dots, pixels etc to create the image. Almost pointillism..

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Leonid Afremov

Leonid Afremov is a Russian impressionist artist who paints with palette knife and oil on canvas to create these stunning colour and light masterpieces! He uses a bright and beautiful signature colour palette and magically represents rainy Parisian nights, flowing dancers and streetlights among other subjects. I love the his style! And would love to see one on my wall! Here are a few of my absolute favourites. I love the night street scenes, umbrellas and rain and abstract dancers showing movement and just his colour choice!!

An artist I would be willing to pay money to buy his artwork! Check out his extensive work on his DeviantArt page!

I would love either of these in my house!

When Dreams Come True

Sailing with the sun

Midnight Blues

Hesitation of the Rain

Rhythm of Tango

Flamenco Dancer

Waltz

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Wizard of Oz Party

Wizard of Oz theme party would be awesome! Such a great theme for people to dress up for and great decor, games and food ideas! Even just an emerald city, green party would be cool..

White and black stripes, poppies, tin-man hearts, somewhere over the rainbow, twister, hot air balloons, "Bell Out of Order, Please Knock" sign, yellow brick road leading to door, "the great Oz has spoken", toffee apples, emerald city