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From today i'll post my artworks, inspiration objects and some process of it all. Before that i only posted inspirations.

Karen Appleton is a self-taught oil painter originally from the South, now living in Chicago, IL with her husband Clay, and Great Dane Henry.

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Jacob van Loon de Tondi Watercolor and graphite on wood 35x35″

Did you know, you can quit your job, you can leave university? You aren’t legally required to have a degree, it’s a social pressure and expectation, not the law, and no one is holding a gun to your head. You can sell your house, you can give up your apartment, you can even sell your vehicle, and your things that are mostly unnecessary. You can see the world on a minimum wage salary, despite the persisting myth, you do not need a high paying job. You can leave your friends (if they’re true friends they’ll forgive you, and you’ll still be friends) and make new ones on the road. You can leave your family. You can depart from your hometown, your country, your culture, and everything you know. You can sacrifice. You can give up your $5.00 a cup morning coffee, you can give up air conditioning, frequent consumption of new products. You can give up eating out at restaurants and prepare affordable meals at home, and eat the leftovers too, instead of throwing them away. You can give up cable TV, Internet even. This list is endless. You can sacrifice climbing up in the hierarchy of careers. You can buck tradition and others’ expectations of you. You can triumph over your fears, by conquering your mind. You can take risks. And most of all, you can travel. You just don’t want it enough. You want a degree or a well-paying job or to stay in your comfort zone more. This is fine, if it’s what your heart desires most, but please don’t envy me and tell me you can’t travel. You’re not in a famine, in a desert, in a third world country, with five malnourished children to feed. You probably live in a first world country. You have a roof over your head, and food on your plate. You probably own luxuries like a cellphone and a computer. You can afford the $3.00 a night guest houses of India, the $0.10 fresh baked breakfasts of Morocco, because if you can afford to live in a first world country, you can certainly afford to travel in third world countries, you can probably even afford to travel in a first world country. So please say to me, “I want to travel, but other things are more important to me and I’m putting them first”, not, “I’m dying to travel, but I can’t”, because I have yet to have someone say they can’t, who truly can’t. You can, however, only live once, and for me, the enrichment of the soul that comes from seeing the world is worth more than a degree that could bring me in a bigger paycheck, or material wealth, or pleasing society. Of course, you must choose for yourself, follow your heart’s truest desires, but know that you can travel, you’re only making excuses for why you can’t. And if it makes any difference, I have never met anyone who has quit their job, left school, given up their life at home, to see the world, and regretted it. None. Only people who have grown old and regretted never traveling, who have regretted focusing too much on money and superficial success, who have realized too late that there is so much more to living than this.

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Hole punch flip books by Scott Blake

Pixelshow 2010 – Fat Monkey  by Florentijn Hofman 

Creation of Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman  in collaboration with local students, a small wink for this excellent facility created during the conference Pixelshow 2010  Sao Paulo. Entitled “Fat Monkey” and composed of nearly 10,000 Brazilian flip flops.

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 Patrick Palmer

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“Patrick Palmer is a modern master of figurative art. His post-romantic nudes are not only exquisitely painted, but also dreamy, delicate   and suggestive. They only hint at sensuality and evoke fantasy in the subtle and elegant manner that distinguishes art from pornography.”

do not use people. emotionally, sexually, financially, socially, professionally, creatively or just suck up their energies when the time only works for you. too many people going through these things. if you are the use-r, just know you are at the bottom of the pyramid. dont pull others in how lost you are. live genuine.

“I used to transport coke between Miami and Cuba back in the 80’s. Those were the happiest days of my life. I used to get $6,000 a kilo. I went through millions. But I had to stop because my heart couldn’t take the stress. I was constantly watching my back, and all my friends ended up getting busted or killed. One time we were switching boats about 50 miles off the coast, and a helicopter flew by. I almost had a heart attack. Now I just do hair and makeup for girls at the strip club.”

Explosions Painting series by Ben Grasso

Artiste American painter based in Brooklyn, focus on the excellent achievements of Ben Grasso which offers a range of compositions featuring explosions of buildings, trains and other vessels in style with an aesthetic and unique dynamics of its kind.

  Incredibly Beautiful Glass Sculptures by  Jack Storms            

Incredibly talented and skilled beyond all reason, Jack Storms was destined to be someone really amazing.  Both a tremendous athlete and a motivated student growing up in New Hampshire, it wasn’t until later in life that Jack discovered his passions in contemporary art and graduated at age 30 from Plymouth State University with a BA in Art focusing primarily on studio production.  It was during his junior year there that he happened upon what would eventually become an entryway to his legacy, the studio of a glass artist that was close to his school where he was producing a phenomenally rare style of glass art work combining lead crystal and dichroic glass using a cold-glass process.  The process itself which required weeks and weeks to produce even one completed glass sculpture was incredibly intense and physically challenging, and the number of glass artisans working in this form of fine art could be counted on one hand.  Working side by side with the artisan for over a year, Jack learned every component and facet of this incredibly challenging and rare art form and eventually was a strong enough sculptor to branch out on his own in 2004 and open StormWorks Studio.

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Blurred Lines by Adam Lupton

Adam Lupton is a Canadian painter, whose work serves to examine the psychological and sociological struggles of modern society. In his own words, his painting to set the internal and external dialogue on the face of many reports. His recent work in the face of the election results, the same term in different levels of a single surface. It calls into question our free will and the way we think of space, time, destination and himself. Thinking of quantum and string theory as a reference, asks: “If every decision becomes a reality parallel to the life or another, we are as free as we think we are?

Rafael Araujo born in Venezuela in 1957, using only a pencil, ruler and protractor, creates beautiful renderings of the three dimensional space butterflies occupy and the mathematical spirals of sea shells.

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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home - run with us !

Mutant Fruits and Vegetables Who wants a perfect fruit or vegetable? Not Bruce Peterson, he likes his fruits and vegetables to be freakishly mutant in nature.

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Nobuhiro Nakanishi. 

In his series, The Good Badlands, photographer Guy Tal seeks to show us that though it is often hidden, and may only appear briefly, there is delicate and subtle beauty in abundance for any viewer with patience and desire.