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Su Casa
1 Su Casa: A Cheap and Chic Room Redo
before and after
2 Before and After: From Funky Frames to Cool Collage
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3 Artist of the Day: Hilary Williams
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4 Artist of the Day: Karen Ondracek
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5 Artist Francesca Gabbiani's Exquisite Collages
DIY
6 How to Create Major Wall Art With a Minor Budget
Yesterday, I shared with you the horse collage I made for my son's room. Today, I'll show you exactly how I went from a scattered collection of random frames to the finished product. Interested in how you can make something similar for your house? Learn the steps here! Read more
When I was pregnant with my baby, I knew that I wanted to create an unusual, fun, and eye-catching art installation for his room. I latched onto the idea of creating a collage out of some frames that I'd been collecting at thrift stores. I started with this mismatched jumble of frames, which I painted all black. Then I had pieces of 1/8-inch-thick birch plywood cut to fit each frame. With help Read more
While most of us experimented with the art of collage at some point in our lives, even if it was just layering magazine fashion spreads in our high school lockers, it's the rare person who masters this deceptively simple art technique. Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani has done just that, creating pieces from torn or cut paper that leap with energy. Whether she's collaging together a Read more
Artist Karen Ondracek makes deceptively simple images out of difficult-to-manipulate scraps of paper, photographs, and ephemera. Her fanciful, creature-filled collages often feature animals speaking nonsense out of comic-style dialogue balloons. And now, for full disclosure, I'll also say that Karen is a good friend of mine. I've known her since she was 12, and now she lives across the street Read more
San Francisco artist Hilary Williams works in a number of mediums creating screen prints, paintings, drawings, and dolls. To see a gallery of her work, just read more Read more
The phrase "cheap and chic" gets tossed around a lot, but in today's Su Casa, user I_Love_Fashion perfectly embodies the spirit of both adjectives with her sophisticated wall collages. (Want to share your photos? Here's how to post in the Su Casa group.) To give her bedroom a fresh new look, I_Love_Fashion simply tacked lots of magazine pages and thrift-store records to her lilac walls, Read more
Often I will be perusing your profiles on Team and something will catch my eye - you are all so interesting and creative! _nicci put together a gallery of cute that is pure eye candy. You have to check it out, but I picked a few of my favorite miniature pieces of art for you all to see. Very girlie, very ethereal, and oh so Sofia Coppola-esque, hopefully these will brighten your day. Thanks for Read more
Reuters is reporting that a recent Swedish study has found that the risk of stroke among women increases the less educated you are. The reason is not simply that education magically improves your health, but that by being educated, you make healthier decisions based on learned knowledge. This can mostly be attributed to the significant differences in health behaviors in well educated versus Read more
We had to do a double take when we first laid eyes on a room decorated with ixxi tiles. Though the somewhat pixelated accent creates a striking focal point in any room, we had to read on to fully understand what exactly we were looking at. Is it art? Is it a wall structure? Turns out, it's both. Leave it to the Dutch to design an easy system for creating customizable art. By connecting a series Read more
Winter may be a distant memory for us now, but remind yourself that it is, in fact, coming again with the geek-approved Direwolf Game of Thrones letterpress poster ($35). Inspired by the House of Stark's crest, this poster comes in a geometric collage of cool-toned hues with the signature line of "Winter is coming" printed in the mix of triangles and shapes. It's a beautiful piece, one that you Read more
