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maryse's avatar

These are just beautifully nuts!

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Bobbie Jansen's avatar

Wow! Have not seen mixed media this different for a while. Gorgeous!

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Caroline Rudge's avatar

Brain cannot compute…🤯😍

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Judi Cumming's avatar

Michael Mapes work is very cool!

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Danielle Krysa's avatar

AGREED! (a chicken bone!?!?)

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Kiara's avatar

I absolutely love this!!!! I am so incredibly inspired by this work! I assemble my work in a similar way but I am in the baby stages of my artistic practice. This gives me that "I wish I had made that" feeling.

My subject matter & intent is different. Maybe this is a "Dear Arty" question... but... I'm curious if anyone here wants to talk about being inspired by different artists techniques, taking inspiration from different sources. Do you have questions you ask yourself to make sure that your work isn't too close to the inspiration? I think it's probably about being inspired by many different things and also putting your own "why" into it. Any thoughts?

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Danielle Krysa's avatar

oh that's a very good "dear arty" question... i'll put it in next thursday if it doesn't get read here :)

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Sirli's avatar

Wowza! Love it 🙌🙌🙌

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SFGirlByBay's avatar

just genius 🤍

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PhotoLori's avatar

Phenomenal work!!!

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B.A. Lampman's avatar

I love this

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CeCe Sullivan's avatar

This work is possibly the coolest I’ve seen in awhile. Stunning!

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E Daggar Art's avatar

Absolutely bonkers and beautiful!

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Leigh Griffin's avatar

Brilliant. My mind is dazzled

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

Very well - done. I enjoy seeing found objects being used so liberally. I tried this once & wasn't very good at it at all.

A chicken bone, indeed..... if it works or fits, WHY NOT ?

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