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Emily Eldridge: Found object sculptures

Most of the time, your best work may be the stuff that you do for fun. You know, things that you create while you were just fooling around, experimenting with no pressure and with no specific outcome in mind. I really love these experimental found object characters by Emily Eldridge – I’m beginning to look at my cleaning tools in a whole new light now.

What kind of experiments have you done lately that you felt was a personal breakthrough? I’d love to see some show of hands – feel free to share (and link to it) in the comments!

Donna Wilson’s studio

donna wilson from uppercasemag on Vimeo.

I adore Donna Wilson’s work, so I was even more thrilled to learn that Janine from Uppercase did a feature on Donna and her studio.

Here’s great advice from Donna:

[quote] I enjoy doing but making it work as a business as well. Thats important because you can design anything, draw and paint and everything, but if you can’t sell it, you not going to last very long. It’s important to get that balance right. [/quote]

Painting the invisible

Ana Ventura coordinated a workshop at the Museu da Marioneta, in Portugal with a very creative, imaginative idea.
The participants had the opportunity to give life to the walls of the museum. Based on her collection “(in)visíveis” (invisibles), she proposed to everyone to look at the spots on that space and transform it into something new. Many different animals and characters are living now at the cloister of the puppets museum and became an ephemeral, beautiful and delicate exhibition. I’m so inspired by this idea that I feel like doing the same everywhere I go!

I have a friend who participated on the workshop, Andrea Ebert, and she was the one who told me about it. Obrigada Andrea! : )
You can see more pictures of the workshop here.

[box icon=”heart”] ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Deborah is known in Brazil as Tartaruga Feliz (Happy Turtle). She’s a self-taught illustrator and animator who is born in Brazil. She travels the world while working, and attributes it to the best experience she has had in her life so far. You can see more of her work on her website, and she just launched a new website, Garatujas Fantásticas with 3 of her friends that has exclusive content for kids in Brazil! [/box]