Take life and making it your own!

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. –Pablo Picasso, a man with many skills.

Life is an attitude, nothing more, nothing less... as is art. We choose how to live and what to create and these choices come from our attitude. Art roots from the passion to create and to create is to live.

Live strong passionate ART.

Art is everything you do!
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Beeeeeeeeee... yourself

MainBee on Etsy created this ornament... great detail! She also gives a lot of information on the process and beeswax like such "How is honey made?

Bees prepare honey from nectar which they collect from flowers and blossom of trees. They use it, as well as pollen, as food for their young. Honey is a mix of natural sugars (80%), water (18%) and minerals, vitamins, pollen, protein and amino acids (2%). Around 70% of honey's natural sugar content is made up of fructose and glucose

Varieties of Honey

Liquid or set?

Around 70% of honey's natural sugar content is made up of fructose and glucose. Clear and set honeys can be compared to ice and water - two different forms of the same thing. The more glucose a honey contains, the more likely it is to crystallize and therefore become a set honey. All honey starts off as liquid but will set eventually. The speed at which this will happen depends on the sugars they contain and the temperature at which they are kept. Both types are equally pure and contain no additives and there is no difference in the taste or nutritional value of these two states.

Is it true that honey is heated? " PLUS more... though there is a lot to read it is very informational and interesting... maybe no the best for etsy but certainly "cool!"

There are candles and even honey on her shop... check it out!!
MainBee

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Mind Googles

I have seen this on etsy about every few weeks... making designs people are able to "stick" on their walls as a design. I really want to try this out. I have mucho ideas but don't have a printer or someone to print them for me where I can still make a profit.

There are minor details for everyone. A minor detail that could change a rooms energy on the regular! A detail can tell about a person and or share a secrete in an unknown way... oh lala!

PRINTER... are you out there?!?! Well till I find my spot for prints... here are a few great Artist just going their thang... well!

Design Your Style
Vinyl Wall Art

Love. Peace. Happiness!!!

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Spectacular!

Olympia: Oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet in the Realism style. Painted in 1863, it measures 130.5 by 190 centimeters. Inspired by Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus, Titian’s Venus of Urbino.

Olympia is a painting of a high class prostitute. The orchid in her hair, her bracelet, pearl earrings and the oriental shawl on which she lies, symbols of wealth and sensuality. The black ribbon around her neck, her cast-off slipper and the black cat at the bottom of the bed, symbols prostitution. Olympia is an independent woman and very aware of her sexual dominance over men. Manet symbolizes this in the way the wall leads to her sex which she is firmly protecting with her hand. As if she is saying, here I am, here it is and I decide if you can have it. In the background a black servant presents Olympia with a gift, probably from a client, which she ignores.

At the first exhibit in Paris this painting created a uproar. It was tagged immoral and vulgar my many. If this was immoral and vulgar I wonder what they would call Mtv today. Though Olympia was requested to be destroyed it managed to survive and is now in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, for all to view.

To me Olympia is a feminist. If she is real or not the idea of being so vulnerable is. Vulnerable as in broadcasting to the world that she is a prostitute and beautiful. She portrays a very strong independence that one could admire. Most of us view prostitutes as being “bad” but when you look at someone in this raw vulnerable light they are just like anyone else. The detail Manet puts in this painting is magnificent. From the detail of the subjects to the detail in the subjects is breathtaking!

This painting is beautiful and speaks of the time, which it’s self is beautiful. How we have evolved together, the good and bad, is art to my eyes.