{"id":3052,"date":"2013-04-22T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T19:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"earth-day-abundance-recycled-art-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/earth-day-abundance-recycled-art-supplies","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day Abundance – Recycled Art Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leading up to Earth day I\u2019ve been signing petitions almost everyday. There\u2019s one or two in my email everyday. I care about all the things I sign petitions for: \u00a0like no oil tankers on my coast, no nasty pipeline through the forests, saving whales from navy maneuvers, the list goes on and on. So many nasty negative things. \u00a0But today is Earth Day and I want to talk about being a Positive force and Abundance!<\/p>\n

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I want to talk about up-cycling and recycling from an artist\u2019s point of view. I want to talk about looking for art supplies. And all I see is ABUNDANCE! For those of you who are artists and are already using ephemera and found objects to make artworks, you know what I\u2019m saying. There is just so much out there and it\u2019s cheap, almost free, just waiting to be reused, with imagination. It\u2019s more than a trend now, it\u2019s more than a movement, it\u2019s become a way of creating for many artists. And that makes me feel so much more optimistic, it\u2019s the balance to all the negatives that I\u2019m signing petitions against everyday.<\/p>\n

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My way of life, of finding and reusing everything is so rewarding I couldn\u2019t do anything else now. It\u2019s a way of seeing things. For instance a broken favourite egg cup or milk pitcher causes only a moment of regret and then,<\/p>\n

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well, it will join all the other shards collected in recycled salad containers ( made from recycled plastic) in my studio. \u00a0Another way to create studio storage.<\/p>\n

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And one day become a Pique Assiette Mosaic tray like this one with handles made from old silverware.<\/p>\n

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Although I do not subscribe to magazines, since I get them from the library, I do buy old ones sometimes at garage sales<\/p>\n

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and they become part of my stock of color supplies for collage birthday and anniversary cards.<\/p>\n

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Or for playing with, creating colorful collages.<\/p>\n

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And beads, there are so many beads out there, in thrift stores, and me, the eternal magpie always attracted to color and texture can\u2019t help but collect them in my little recycled boxes.<\/p>\n

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And the boxes stay under the coffee table and sometimes, when I\u2019m watching a movie I\u2019ll bring them out and string them together into a bracelet or two.<\/p>\n

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Even old frames are collected, most free or almost free. I also collect old board that we cut up to fit those frames and with a coat of gesso they are ready to paint on, whenever the urge strikes, and I never have to worry about the cost of framing.<\/p>\n

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So this is my little treatise to Earth Day. My little contribution to saving Her from all the baddies out there. It\u2019s small, but there are a whole lot of artists out there just like us and every bit of positive energy counts in the grand scheme of things, I\u2019m quite sure.<\/p>\n

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Leading up to Earth day I\u2019ve been signing petitions almost everyday. There\u2019s one or two in my email everyday. I care about all the things I sign petitions for: \u00a0like no oil tankers on my coast, no nasty pipeline through the forests, saving whales from navy maneuvers, the list goes on and on. So many Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022,7,91,1,3,13],"tags":[862,861,864,863,865,866],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collage","category-garage-sailing","category-inspiration","category-musings","category-mosaics","category-recycling","tag-abundant-art-supplies","tag-earth-day-abundance","tag-recycling-beads","tag-recycling-for-art-supplies","tag-recycling-picture-frames","tag-studio-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}