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Love Letters in New Orleans
This is a near perfect post in fitting the criteria that Art is Everywhere. Photographer Ted Jackson found ways to say his ABC’s with alphabetical art. His photographic Love Letters of everyday things in New Orleans are pretty clever, as is even the title. Take the test to see how many you can guess correctly for what each letter represents. Submit with a comment to post your answers. To see if you’re right, you can click this link to find the answers. Gallery of Love Letter Photos. Of course “X” rings home but I think the café au lait (“B”) and the “V” may be my favorites, and it’s approaching…
Art in Bloom
I’m always inspired by artists who brave the crowds to create their artwork. It’s something that I do not like to do, but this “plein air,” landscape artist, Michela Mansuino, featured last week in the Washington Post, has managed to not only control her experience with multitudes of onlookers but capture the magic of the cherry blossoms in her paintings. She’s been painting at the same spot for four years. The cherry blossoms are nearly gone now, but the moment they existed is immortalized in this painting. Here’s a photo, besides the last post, that I took recently of the blossoms on my neighbor’s cherry laurel tree — just as…
Peeps
Every year The Washington Post holds a contest around Easter for the most interesting diorama using peeps. When I saw this notice regarding an exhibition of peep art by artists in Spartanburg, who have created a mock digital demonstration of peeps during an Easter jelly bean hunt, I thought of this contest. This year’s contest was stellar with lots of creative ingenuity, wit and famous art referenced pieces. All photos by Bill O’Leary for The Washington Post. There are so many more peep entries than these to see, “Eep” Peep was in fact my favorite, as I have posted on the animated movie Up. Just had to show this because…
