froze pluck nazarene #1614

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I’ll spend the first four sharpening the axe.—Abraham Lincoln

Got a shirt mended in the studio today, a three corner tear from the day TY's car stopped in the middle of the road and he caught it on something that sticks out.  I dunno what.  Also got the wool plaids mostly sewn up from a scarf into a top, French seams with double seams holding the sleeves on.  Won't take long to finish, but I think I'm going to actually hand sew the hems.  (Did I say that?)  I messed around for awhile pulling fabrics for the piece I dreamed the other night-  obviously there will be some changes that need to be made.  It just ain't workin' yet so there will be some concentration applied tomorrow.  Also I need to get all the piles of quilts out of my way to free up some space.  And clean up some more dead bugs.  I think these guys got in under the door from the leaf blower.  ugh.

But back to this-  I found some good things on Feedly again, gradually finding the best ways to use it and find things-  I never had the blogs I follow categorized before and it saves a lot of time.  I follow a whole bunch of cooking blogs, think I will pare those back, and on the other hand, I don't have many serious 'art' blogs, probably because I prefer sending around irony, but I will keep my eyes open for more art, less snark.

Promise, though you wouldn't know it from this...

Another pencil lead sculptor!  Cerkahegyzo, an Hungarian carver, has some amazing examples.  Wish I could see this well.

 Alien pencil looses face-off!


Moving from pencils to architectural sculpture, In his ongoing street art series “The Living Wall,” Russian artist Nikita Nomerz brings life to decrepit buildings in Russia by painting faces on them. Nomerz travels extensively around Russia and makes an effort to paint a character in each place he visits. He talks about his art in this interview with Global Street Art.

Nomerz' statement:  I paint in the street, in public spaces, but I do not position myself as an invader of the city or a destroyer. I position myself as a creator. With my street art work, I fill the urban emptiness. I am inspired by the process of painting, city, people, music, movies and art by other artists. All this is interesting: it pushes the creation of art works.


Going from architecture to trees, still faces...

Tree Spirits of St. Simons Island are eerie faces carved into oak trees by sculptor Keith Jennings. They are meant to represent sailors who drowned on ships made from St. Simons trees. People travel here just to see those things. They're all over the island.

Donny & Marie in Utah

Rangers and picnic bears at Yosemite

Tiny Town began as a humble, under-the-Christmas-tree display in the home of Frank Moshinskie in Hot Springs Arkansas. One year, Frank didn't take the display down. It grew and grew, and in 1963 it was moved -- with all of its rivers, mountains, hundreds of tiny lights, dozens of tiny streets, and countless tiny people -- to the building where it still stands as a tourist attraction.

Frank, who died in 1998, worked on Tiny Town for 68 years. His son Charles has run the place ever since, preserving it as a tribute to his dad's creativity.  Frank was proud of his thrift; he once told us that nothing in Tiny Town cost more than $4.00. All of the tiny people were hand-carved by Frank; the trees are made from cat food cans and wire, the street signs from nail heads, the grass from sawdust.

Silver Fox, an original design by Marianne Wille   

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