Just a few of my bakelite favorites:
Hello My name is Sandy and I am a....
button accumulator!
There, I said it, perhaps a step in the direction back to normal life. (Like that would happen...)
This is somebody else's collection, mine is bigger and arranged in bags by color. But if you want to see my mentor's collection go visit Teddy Pruett's site- now there's a woman with an obsession--- and I say that in the nicest way. (Damn, I should never send you away to see Teddy's stuff because you will NEVER come back you'll be laughing so hard!)
So, you see what Teddy does with them,
I basically catalog and stockpile them
Or glue them to stuff
or make necklaces
or photograph them.
But, out trolling today, and found some button portraits which got me started on a hunt for more. here are the best of the ones I found, some very polished, others, well, not quite so. And that's how I wasted my day. (watch out, I think this first one follows you around the room!)
Mona Lisa done in buttons, photographed by Joe Collver inside the Hankyu shopping center in Kobe.
Compare and contrast with this Mona who looks like she has some sort of primitive scarring going on:
and the Girl with a Pearl Earring here
These two by Jane Perkins in the UK
Large portraits of buttons by Eric Daigh
Three giant portraits I couldn't find out anything about except they are made of buttons and I think are race car drivers. Must have been done by a very BIG fan.
Artist Lisa Kokin makes fun artwork out of buttons and other miscellaneous objects
A little nudge to push you towards the 'in Stitches' magazine new issue, for any of the great articles written by the list below! In addition we are running a little blog hop so you can see what we are all up to. Today, go visit Nancy Cook and leave a comment for her. At the end of the day she will draw a name for a prize. And then Tracy does it on Friday, and so on until next Monday when it's my turn. Who doesn't want a PRIZE? I know you do...
Sandy Donabed
2 comments :
My granma was a button collector too. when she grew too old to care about things, she let me have several mason jars full -bone, wood, glass, brass...all tumbled together.
I hate to tell you that I sat in the back yard and launched all of them out over the pond with a slingshot, one perfect button after the next. What did a teenager know about buttons beyond interesting ammunition?
Thank you for this post! Great Collection of artists working with buttons. Handy for an art teacher
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