Street art, all hearts

Street art, all hearts (monoprint 7), with and without custom name (of my granddaughter Corin) but you can choose the name i use in this style. Shorter names or nicknames work best.   The file with the name, is the top image, and the basic file I will edit with your name is below.

street artwork, custom names all hearts digital prints street artwork, custom names all hearts digital prints

Street art, all hearts

Just for the love of “love” and “peace” in this troubled world, and also for submission to a competition for “printed” art  (though this version has been edited digitally).

The purpose is to save our planet. All items, paper, stamps, inks, sponges, eraser alphabets, eraser heart stamps, carving tools, bubble wrap, carpet padding as a curb side rescue, house paint, salvaged paint from the nearby school dumpster. NOTHING NEW, NOTHING.  all reused, recycled, rescued ingredients.  A fun project indeed, and one day with my daughter and two of my grandaughters was fun and they produced great stuff.  This particular monoprint is simple, but kind of says “love” even being made from “trash”.

street artwork, custom names all hearts digital prints

3 more small mosaic flower pots

3 more small mosaic flower pots, nothing new used on these,  left over thinset, left over grout, all tiles and glass from thrift stores or building value store in cincinnat. Fun, and since i have lots and lots of spider plant sprouts, and lots and lots of mother-in-law’s tongue. These particular plants do pretty well in smaller pots.

3 Small mosaic flower pots

3 Small mosaic flower pots, mostly recycled pots (a couple new) and all reclaimed and recycled tesserae, and on the edge thinset mortar, and left over grout from floors.  I dont spend much time on these, but used them to just “smooth out” the roughness of daily life, putting pieces together in a very “quick and impulsive” way.

They are not museum pieces, i know well, but they are gratifying, and i like the visual effect of color and design.

The last image in this column is my favorite, as the vertical lines, smooth glossy texture of the tiles is kind of “comforting”.  They come from a partial sheet of left over tiles purchased for very little $, from Building Value, in Cincinnati.  My go-to for scrap tile used to be Mees Bro, but they stopped putting their scraps out for mosaic artists…. dont know why?