The challenge on the most recent episode of Bravo TV’s Work of Art was for each contestant to make art inspired by the creation of a child with whom he or she was paired. Lindsey asked those of us who are playing along to find a piece of art created by a child and to create our own art that is both inspired by and complements it.
On the web site Studio-Kids: A Place for Kids and Art, I found this painting:
This is a collaborative effort by first graders inspired by the work of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky. I loved this and other collaborative paintings I found on the site, and I was inspired to do another of my Friends and Bottle Caps paintings.
Materials: Acrylic paints and bottle caps on twelve 2×2-inch canvases on one 8×10-inch canvas.
Explanation: I think that we’re born innately creative. Children’s creativity is encouraged and rewarded, often until they reach a certain age, when they’re directed to more ‘practical’ pursuits. I think if creativity continued to be nurtured into adulthood, we’d be more fulfilled as individuals and as societies.
“The Kids Are All Right”
You can see the other entries on the Follow Work of Art blog. Thank you to Tim, Rob E, and Marika for some of the bottle caps used in this painting.
I think that this would have worked well for the pop art challenge as well BRAVA!
Thanks!
Nice work indeed! Reminds me of a sign I saw a couple of weeks ago.
The EARTH without ART would just be “EH”!
Thanks! And good sign! I told you you’d see those bottle caps again. =)
Did you know that IBC Root Beer was the last root beer to actually be “brewed” using yeast fermentation to create the carbonation? It was created in 1919 by Saint Louis’ other beer making family, the Griesedieck brothers. (Stag, Falstaff and GB)
That’s when prohibition forced them and their Independent Brewing Company to switch to making non-alchoholic beverages. It became part of the 7Up Company in Saint Louis and then Dr. Pepper when D.P. bought 7Up and moved the company to Texas.
Most soft drink companies of any age have lots of interesting stories behind them, don’t they?
soda pop to the tune of lollipop – chordetts 🙂
The only one I recognize though is IBC Root beer, though, I didn’t know crush made grape.
It’s interesting how people in different parts of the country have different soft drink memories.
In England, I discovered a carbonated lemonade, so much better than anything sprite or 7-up produced. Not that I don’t mind those brands, on occasion, but what I really liked was the first wave of clear pepsi.
LOVE IT.
Thank you!