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Butterfly by RoseWithHearts

I just found it absolutely amazing that this painting was done entirely with “Sharpie” pens.

This is a technique I have never seen before, it is called “trash poetry”.
Sacha Heemels, a Dutch artist, creates these beautiful works of art from old paintings she finds in flea markets or second hand shops.
Carefully, she revives these old oils on canvas into new pieces of art by using a laser technique to erase [...]

Karen Hatzigeorgiou – The Art of Happiness

Excerpt from The Art of Happiness:
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“the art of happiness
keeps its balance
small comforts
are not the same as
converting the mysterious
while the wind is calling.
The real reward of any life
is to lick the platter clean.”

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Karen Hatzigeorgiou is an artist of many media and I found her altered book “The Art of Happiness” inspiring in many ways. It [...]

Vian Sora

The works of Vian Sora have inspired me for a few years now and her passion for art is most evident in all her paintings. There is something quite spiritual that flows through them and some are almost haunting.
I love how she is able to create colors that look almost translucent, and embed ancient designs [...]

Aleta Pippin

Over the years I find myself being drawn to pieces of abstract art like those of Aleta Pippin.
Color is usually the first thing to draw my attention, and once I am captured by the feast of color I look for the way they dance across the canvas.
The above dance seems to have a Gypsy flare [...]

ajna

I love surfing the net finding treasures like these. This beauty was created by Betool Fekaiki who is an Iraqi artist now living in the UK.
If I were to give it a name, I would call her “Ajna” representing the brow charka, the chakra of time, light and awareness. There is [...]

poetry on canvas

I came across this site called “Olivebranch Network” which is a blogging group consisting of mostly Iraqi bloggers. The posts are a way for them to reach out to the world in hopes of a better understanding of who they are and how they long for a simple life which includes what all humans deserve, [...]

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