Diane Stafford On Focus

Ethical Art in Landscape

Ethical Art in Landscape is the theme of Laura's A Level project.

This video shows the first stage of the process, which began earlier this year. Laura explains the environmental and ethical perspective she gave to her creative thoughts on this project.

Laura has also added her video to the Pledging for Change competition post over at Art Hobby Crafts as we are considering entering, depending on whether sufficient AHC members can demonstrate an ethical approach in their arts and crafts work.

The joy of recycling discarded materials for me is to see something that would normally be thrown away given a new lease of life, albeit in a different form.

One of my other favourite Art recycling projects, in addition to creating 'paperclay' is to transform old paintings, including frame, into brand new paintings. 

I received a large old print with gold frame yesterday, so that is on my art project schedule for recycling and transformation.  It will no doubt become an abstract painting. 

So, what are you into creatively recycling?  

Art in a Summer Rose Garden

You can always find Art in a Summer Rose Garden

We have enjoyed a beautiful spell of warm weather, with a little rain to keep the grass green and the flowers blooming, here in the UK over recent days.

The garden is brimming with all manner of:

.  'blooming' things

.  drying seed heads

.  birds, frogs and other wild life

I confess to thinking "garlic frogs legs" this afternoon when one of the little critters hopped out on the drive as we were hosing the porch roof.  I think he'd popped over for a cooling spray in the midday heat.

As one pair of frogs legs isn't enough to go round the dinner table, he was gently cooled off and allowed to hop off on his way.

I was going to photograph him, but he'd vanished into the flower beds before I had time to pop in for the camera.

I did however get some great photos the other day of summer flowers and dried seed heads in the rose garden.  This image, Summer Rose, caught my eye and, with a little digital art painting, was transformed into one for my online art gallery.

It captures some of those warm summer tones fading in the cooling late afternoon light.

Enjoy the mini heat wave :-)

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Art by Diane of Chester