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Several creative Angelinos who transform landfill-bound billboards into stunning metro art shared their artistic ethos with G Word recently. They’re a part of a growing community of ‘green’ artists who use nature-based or recycled media to depict our relationship with planet earth. Get an eco art primer at greenmuseum.org, an online-only museum. And don’t miss Treehugger’s two cents.
Whether eco art makes you think about your role on the planet or simply makes you smile, there’s a deep well of green art just waiting to be explored. And when you invest in eco art, you not only help put some “green” in greenbacks, you support art, plain and simple. And that’s always good for the globe.
- Coffee, Unfiltered: Husband and wife creative team Andrew Saur and Angel Sarkela-Saur blend every hue of coffee to create unforgettable watercolors with themes ranging from wildife to high-concept.
- Scrap, Redefined Tennessee-based Tim Pace welds found metal pieces like discarded tools, cutlery, auto parts and discarded farm equipment into whimsical, affordable art.
- Mama Mosaic: ArtistS A Schimmel Gold uses recycled paper–think garbage-bound junk mail–to create textural mosaics resulting in a unique brand of green pop art.
- The Artist Within: Tap into your inner eco artist with all-natural Real Milk Paint, which dates back to when the commercially prepared kind wasn’t yet invented. The modern day version includes powdered purified casein (a milk protein), lime and pigments, not far from the original recipe-old curdled milk or cottage cheese, lime and color from earth pigments.
Do you have anything in your at-home green gallery? Let us know!
This post is inspired by G Word: Episode 11.
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