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I guess the title says it all. I’m just bored out of my mind with my own art. I went to my brother’s house the other day and he had some of my art on his wall and it made me sleepy. Not only that, I felt like it was amateur and contrived. I wanted to rip it off his walls and bring it home to “fix” it (or rather, slather a bunch of white or black paint on it and start again.)

Today was a rainy, nasty, “hole yourself in” sort of day… so I painted FOR HOURS. But it wasn’t that sort of natural, free flowing, crazily inspired sort of painting. It was labored and tortured. I just feel sick of myself and I can’t get over this feeling that I’m lacking some sort of artistic gene that will allow me to overcome the hump of mundaneness. Did you know “mundaneness” isn’t a real word? I’m going to use it anyway.

So here is what I’ve worked on today. Above is my return to “Faces.” I’ve always been drawn to the abstract and cubism, as well as my inner 5 year old attraction to primary colors. I’m not close to finished yet (as a matter of fact, since I took the pic I’ve taken out the lower left hand face… it just didn’t belong.) But I’m excited to work on it more so at least it isn’t putting me into an art coma.

And this is donkey. This is a self portrait, in a way. I feel like a donkey 90% of the time. Hubby “playfully” calls me Donkey. So I started painting this donkey and after 10 variations of color and content, I still can’t get it right. Above is one of the variations which I hadn’t planned on keeping and was just messing around, and below is what it is as of this moment. Who knows what it will be tomorrow?

Okay! Off to bed to hopefully recharge my battery and rid of this crappy obsessive mood!

Renee

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Random Ramblings…The TN Ragnar Relay AND New Art

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It’s amazing what you can accomplish with layer styles. It’s a feature of Photoshop that is fun to play and experiment with. The short tutorial below is the result of some of my experimentation spending a few minutes with layer styles.

First up, you’ll need this texture pattern to follow along with the tutorial. Download it here. Double+click the .pat file to install it.
Here’s a look at what we’ll be creating.

Step 1 – Creating the Background
Create a new document. Mine is 558×600 72 dpi. On a new layer, fill with any color you choose. Then double+click the layer to open the layer styles window. Apply the following settings.

For the pattern, choose …

Source: http://wegraphics.net/blog/tutorials/creating-an-embedded-concrete-effect-using-layer-styles/

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By Dan Shapley

A new study by the Silent Spring Institute and published in Environmental Health Perspectives finds that many consumer products have at least one chemical linked to hormone changes (endocrine disruption) or asthma. Few of these chemicals show up on product labels, making it hard for consumers to avoid them if they are concerned about health impacts that haven’t prompted U.S. regulators to restrict their use. And even products marketed as alternatives to conventional products, in many cases, contained suspect chemicals, too.

The institute calls its study the largest investigation of its kind.

Some products that contained high concentrations of chemicals of concern include vinyl products like shower curtains and pillow protectors; products with fragrance, like dryer sheets; and sunscreens, including some marketed for children and babies. (See these baby and kid sunscreens that are both affordable and rated highly by the Environmental Working Group.)

For consumers who want to limit their exposure to suspect chemicals in the study, the institute recommended that they use fewer products, especially:

• vinyl products,
• products with fragrance,
• anti-bacterial products (use soap and water instead), and
• products that are applied directly to the skin or used indoors where they can accumulate in dust and air.

The institute also called on lawmakers and regulators to do a better job testing and removing from commerce chemicals that show potential health effects. U.S. chemical laws have been criticized for years by advocates who say harmful chemicals are too common.

Source: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/endocrine-disrupting-chemicals-1203?src=rss

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Hello, Friends! We?ve had such a fun adventurous week in Rome. My inspiration wells are full and I?m excited to get back home today. Next week, my kids have a 2nd week off school for spring break ? I?m glad we won?t have to jump back into our school routine right away! Instead, we actually have a camera crew coming to our home to help us with a new project. I can?t wait to share it with you! Watch for more news next month? How about you? Any fun plans for the weekend?

While I pack us up for the trip home, here are a few things I?ve been wanting to share with you:
- Wind map! I find it mesmerizing.
- Have a tissue nearby when you read this one. Thanks, Pam.
- Beautiful, inexpensive wine box garden.
- So impressed with these students.
- Hah. Pinners be crazy. Thanks, Karey.
- For Facebook Readers, win $150 to Zutano!
- Rainbow roses.

I also write for Babble. Here are this week?s posts:
- Skirts with pockets! My favorite for Spring and Summer.
- Tinkerbell makeup for grownups? Thumbs up or down?
- Because white socks are boring.
- I?m addicted to these grippy hangers. (They?re great-looking too!)
- Warm weather is here! Stay hydrated.

P.S. ? It?s Friday the 13th and we?re flying home. Are you superstitious? Have you ever had crazy things happen to you on this date?

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Source: http://www.designmom.com/2012/04/a-few-things-108/

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by David R. Darrow
8″ x 6″ (20.3cm x 15.2cm)
Oil on Stretched, Washed Denim

SOLD
Collection of David Hansen
Milwaukee, WI ? USA

About This Painting

Not just a couple of peppers. These are peppers from my own vegetable garden in San Jose, CA. And not just a still life on ordinary canvas ? this painting is done on my old blue jeans… unstitched, washed and archivally stretched and glued onto a birch plywood panel, then gessoed with archival-quality, clear gesso.

Peppers on pants: Hot pants!  ?

Source: http://everydaypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-pants.html

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A group of former NASA employees, including astronauts, has called on the agency to stop making “unproven and unsubstantiated remarks” regarding global climate change ? specifically that human activities are driving global warming.

“We believe the claims by NASA and (Goddard Institute for Space Studies), that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated,” write the 49 signatories in a letter to NASA administrator Charles Bolden. [Read the Full Letter]

This is the most recent objection by skeptics who challenge the reality of human-caused global warming. For decades, climate scientists have warned that humans are changing the composition of our atmosphere, warming the planet and, as a result, face rising sea levels, more extreme weather and other consequences. The concept is now well established in scientific literature and attempts to address it are the subject of ongoing international talks.

The letter originates from members of the Johnson Space Center Chapter of the NASA Alumni League, according to Walter Cunningham, a former astronaut who flew the Apollo 7 in 1968 and one of the letter’s signatories.

In its four paragraphs, the letter deliberately avoids delving into its signatories’ reasons for doubting climate-change science, Cunningham told LiveScience. “It’s really trying to get NASA to back off from taking political positions on science.” [10 Climate Change Myths Busted]

Human-caused global warming is “a very open issue right now,” he said.

However, that is not how the scientific establishment sees it. NASA Chief Scientist Waleed Abdalati responded to the letter to say that if the work of NASA scientists ? who may use the agency’s space-based observation tools to study climate change ? withstands the scrutiny of other scientists through peer review, then it encourages them to share their results with the public.

“If the authors of this letter disagree with specific scientific conclusions made public by NASA scientists, we encourage them to join the debate in the scientific literature or public forums rather than restrict any discourse,” Abdalati said in the statement.

For his part, Cunningham said the peer-review process ? in which scientists in relevant fields scurtinize research ? Abdalati mentions is rigged against those who challenge the standard view of global warming.

In spite of its wide acceptance among climate scientists and the scientific community, global-warming skeptics include some scientists. For instance, William Happer, a physicist from Princeton University who is not involved in the NASA letter, recently penned an editorial to the Wall Street Journal stating that the world has not warmed as the concept of carbon dioxide-driven global warming predicts it would.

Like Happer, Cunningham has a background in physics, he is not a climate scientist. According to his NASA astronaut profile, Cunningham has a master’s in physics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and completed doctoral work as well. Of the 46 signatories who listed their positions, eight are astronauts and others identify themselves as having worked in a variety of positions, including within NASA’s science or engineering directorates.

The letter calls out the leadership of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, which is headed by James Hansen, a high-profile climate scientist, who has been an important force propelling the prospect of catastrophic, human-caused climate change into the public eye. Recently, Hansen has increasingly turned to activism, and was arrested at a protest in August. Hansen could not be reached for comment by deadline.

Gavin Schmidt, also a climate scientist at GISS, takes issue with statements by global warming skeptics, such as, “It is clear that the science is NOT settled,” as the letter reads.

“Dealing with the future always involves dealing with uncertainty ? and this is as true with climate as it is with the economy,” Schmidt writes in a post at RealClimate.org. “Science has led to a great deal of well-supported concern that increasing emissions of CO2 (in particular) are posing a substantial risk to human society.”

Among those who study climate, issues such as the existence of the greenhouse effect, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over the past century, their human origin, and warming over the 20th century are no longer subject to fundamental debate, he writes.

The claims in the letter are too vague to be clear, Schmidt told LiveScience in an email, but “If any of signatories are ever in New York, I would be happy to discuss with them the science that gets done at GISS.”

You can follow LiveScience senior writer Wynne Parry on Twitter @Wynne_Parry. Follow LiveScience for the latest in science news and discoveries on Twitter @livescience and on Facebook.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-astronauts-employees-nasa-stay-away-global-warming-171203899.html

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by David R. Darrow
8″ x 6″ (20.3cm x 15.2cm)
Oil on Stretched, Washed Denim

SOLD
Collection of David Hansen
Milwaukee, WI ? USA

About This Painting

Not just a couple of peppers. These are peppers from my own vegetable garden in San Jose, CA. And not just a still life on ordinary canvas ? this painting is done on my old blue jeans… unstitched, washed and archivally stretched and glued onto a birch plywood panel, then gessoed with archival-quality, clear gesso.

Peppers on pants: Hot pants!  ?

Source: http://everydaypaintings.blogspot.com/2011/08/hot-pants.html

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