The post Jane Constable is Exploring Nature’s Endless Beauty Through Printmaking appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The founder of Inky Dog Studio describes herself as an artist who likes to explore ideas using printmaking and mixed media techniques. The process of printmaking involves transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, usually paper, but Constable enjoys experimenting with a variety of alternative techniques, such as cyanotype, anthotype, and lumen printing.
The natural beauty of Essex is Constable’s main source of inspiration, and she enjoys harnessing the beauty of the great outdoors through her body of work.
“Jane’s inspiration and ideas tend to come mainly from the trees, plants, and living creatures that populate the green spaces around her home. Spurred on by the global climate crisis, Jane feels increasingly motivated to make art that will help raise awareness and reconnect people to the nature that we all share the planet with,” she writes on her official website.
In addition to sharing her work on social media, Constable also published a book titled Nature Imprinted, in the hope she can help other aspiring printmakers master the basics of this art form and create their own nature-themed designs.
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]]>The post Christine Rogers Will Make You See Beachcombing in a New Light appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Rogers is an artist based on Canada’s East Coast, who found her true calling when she founded the Saltyjunk Studio. She discovered countless maritime treasures while exploring the rugged shores of Newfoundland and the beaches of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, and decided to transform them into works of art.
The coast has always been an integral part of Rogers’ life, and she spent countless hours on her dad’s lobster fishing boat as a child. She felt at home while surrounded by the sound of waves and seagulls and the smell of salty air, and her love for the Canadian shores only grew as the years went by.
She became a “chronic collector” of the fragments of the sea, including seashells, snails, sea urchins, crab claws, and so much more. Even when she’s looking for something specific, she tries to keep an open mind and collect anything that catches her eye. After gathering the tiny treasures, she enjoys breathing a new life into her beachcombing finds by carefully arranging them into stunning works of art.
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]]>The post Katie Brooks is Transforming Dried Leaves Into Landscape Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Brooks always knew she was going to be an artist, but getting there was easier said than done. She spent her childhood collecting leaves and creating art in her family living room, but committing to it full-time seemed like an uncertain and unstable choice, so she took her career in a different direction.
After years of being surrounded by art without actually making it, Brooks decided she couldn’t ignore her true calling any longer. She started painting landscapes on dried leaves, and her signature “100 Painted Leaves Collection” eventually helped her summon the courage to become an artist full-time after her tiny leaf paintings brought her joy that was missing from her life.
Most of her leaves hail from the woods near her home in North Carolina, and she always looks for sturdy, intact leaves with a good shape. She then presses the leaves in an old history book and lets them dry for about a month before prepping them with acrylic gesso and getting ready to paint on them.
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]]>The post Flora Forager is Arranging Flowers Into Intricate Works of Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Collins describes herself as a petal painter, light seeker, and flower nymph, who’s making magic happen from her home near Seattle. She enjoys exploring the wildflower woodlands around her home and finding tiny treasures she can later use in her art.
“I forage flowers from my creations from foliage and flowers plucked from our sidewalks, meadows, and woods in our neighborhood. I also have plenty of “paints” from my small garden in the city, and my mother’s big rambling secret garden filled with old English roses in the sea town of Edmonds,” she wrote on her official website.
Collins found viral fame with her signature “petal paintings” that see her arranging flowers, petals, and other botanical materials to craft elaborate scenes. It can take her anywhere between 30 minutes and a few hours to finish them up, but the process of imagining each piece is much longer because she has to come up with an idea before she can go out in nature and collect flowers.
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]]>The post Kelsey Schroeder’s Pottery is a Love Letter to Mother Nature appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Schroeder discovered pottery during her high school years, when he attended beginner-friendly wheel classes at her local YMCA. She picked a photography major during her time in college but struggled spending time in the darkroom after working with clay for hours. She decided to switch her focus to ceramics, and this was where she found her true calling, later displaying her work in galleries all around Cedar Rapids.
After years of experimenting with different subjects, Schroeder is best known for her wildlife series, which celebrates many unique creatures and the beauty of their environments.
“My work has always been inspired by the natural world, particularly the immense biodiversity our planet supports and the unique and beautiful qualities each species adds to their habitat and to our world as a whole,” she writes on her official website.
Schroeder finds inspiration everywhere from coral reefs and ocean tides to desert landscapes and the heart of the forest. She wants her work to make a difference in the world and help protect our planet’s future, so she’s donating a portion of each sale to the World Wildlife Fund.
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]]>The post Bria Singer Transforms Everyday Objects Into Stunning Terrariums appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Singer is based in Columbus, Ohio, and she embarked on quite a journey after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2019. She explored many different art forms, but finally felt like something clicked when she started making terrariums in 2021 and discovered the meditative power of working with plants.
“Creating these little worlds gives me such a sense of control. It’s an art form that truly sends me into a flow, or as my high school art teacher used to call it, “right-brain space”… When you stop feeling the time pass, escape the thought loops that plague your mind, and you’re fully experiencing the present,” she wrote on Instagram.
Singer is a huge believer that terrariums can thrive in any environment and the list of vessels she used to build these tiny worlds is pretty impressive. They’re built from everything from wine glasses and butter dishes to teapots and cookie jars, and she often looks for unique vessels at local thrift stores to give her terrariums a retro feel.
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]]>The post Raffaele Di Lallo is Helping People Keep Their Plants Alive appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Raffaele Di Lallo runs a popular Instagram page Ohio Tropics, and his extensive plant knowledge helped him attract over 260,000 followers to his page. He’s on a mission to provide real, practical advice for growing plants, and he has all the credentials to get the job done since he’s been taking care of them for years.
Di Lallo grew up surrounded by plants and was exposed to gardening by his family at a pretty young age. He mostly took care of outdoor plants until middle school, when he turned his attention to indoor plants in an attempt to purify the air in his house because his father was smoking a lot.
Di Lallo gathered so much knowledge about plant care over the years that one of his friends encouraged him to start his own blog. Ohio Tropics was born and blossomed into such a huge success that Di Lallo eventually decided to quit his job as a chemical engineer and work as a content creator full-time, eventually publishing several books, including Houseplant Warrior.
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]]>The post Inga Ilze Peterson’s Paper Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Peterson fell in love with art as a child, and she was drawn to many different types of creative expression, from working on her pencil drawings to making doll clothes. She pursued her passion for art by studying fine art and industrial and graphic design.
Peterson has also enjoyed nature for as long as she can remember, and she spent a lot of time in her youth exploring the fields and forests near her family home in Michigan. Her love for nature inspired her to start experimenting with floral still life – and the rest is history.
“I realized that I needed a way to create long-lasting still life subjects that wouldn’t wilt before I finished a painting. I started experimenting with paper flowers and quickly discovered that I wanted to spend all of my studio time creating and designing three-dimensional botanical art,” she explains on her official website.
In addition to making the most realistic paper flowers you’ll ever see, Peterson is on a quest to help other people do the same. She offers tutorials on her Patreon page, in addition to hosting virtual workshops on Zoom.
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]]>The post Paper Lene’s Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Birkmann is a talented paper artist from Germany who loves nature in all its glory. She’s an animal lover and avid reader who enjoys long walks in nature, watching movies and TV shows, and getting creative with paper. She was studying German and history when she started her account, and paper art became her favorite creative outlet during her studies.
Birkmann’s paper flowers are handmade from high-quality Italian crepe paper, and she sees them as a great long-lasting decoration. In addition to making paper replicas of her favorite flavors, she also accepts commissions on her Etsy page, where she sold almost 200 paper flowers.
No flower is off limits for this talented artist, and we’ve seen her study many different species in an attempt to make their life-like paper replicas. From tulips and dahlias to roses and sunflowers, she created hundreds of paper flowers in the past few years, and the more time passes, the harder it is to tell that they’re not actually real.
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]]>The post Krystal Duran Wants to Help You Become a Crazy Plant Lady appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Taking care of plants didn’t come naturally for Duran, and she’s proof that anyone can do it if they truly put their mind to it. Before becoming a plant-fluencer with almost 700,000 Instagram followers under her belt, she actually killed every plant she ever owned.
Everything changed when she moved from California to Indiana and started looking for a low-energy hobby that could help her cope with the stress of being a social worker. Taking care of plants seemed like a good fit because she always loved nature, and a tiny cactus Walter reignited her passion for plant care.
She learned everything she knows today through many years of trial and error, and she eventually decided to share her expertise with the world. She’s using her platform to post fun and educational videos about plant care, in an attempt to make it understandable and less intimidating for people who are at the very start of their journey.
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]]>The post Jane Constable is Exploring Nature’s Endless Beauty Through Printmaking appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The founder of Inky Dog Studio describes herself as an artist who likes to explore ideas using printmaking and mixed media techniques. The process of printmaking involves transferring images from a matrix onto another surface, usually paper, but Constable enjoys experimenting with a variety of alternative techniques, such as cyanotype, anthotype, and lumen printing.
The natural beauty of Essex is Constable’s main source of inspiration, and she enjoys harnessing the beauty of the great outdoors through her body of work.
“Jane’s inspiration and ideas tend to come mainly from the trees, plants, and living creatures that populate the green spaces around her home. Spurred on by the global climate crisis, Jane feels increasingly motivated to make art that will help raise awareness and reconnect people to the nature that we all share the planet with,” she writes on her official website.
In addition to sharing her work on social media, Constable also published a book titled Nature Imprinted, in the hope she can help other aspiring printmakers master the basics of this art form and create their own nature-themed designs.
The post Jane Constable is Exploring Nature’s Endless Beauty Through Printmaking appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Christine Rogers Will Make You See Beachcombing in a New Light appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Rogers is an artist based on Canada’s East Coast, who found her true calling when she founded the Saltyjunk Studio. She discovered countless maritime treasures while exploring the rugged shores of Newfoundland and the beaches of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, and decided to transform them into works of art.
The coast has always been an integral part of Rogers’ life, and she spent countless hours on her dad’s lobster fishing boat as a child. She felt at home while surrounded by the sound of waves and seagulls and the smell of salty air, and her love for the Canadian shores only grew as the years went by.
She became a “chronic collector” of the fragments of the sea, including seashells, snails, sea urchins, crab claws, and so much more. Even when she’s looking for something specific, she tries to keep an open mind and collect anything that catches her eye. After gathering the tiny treasures, she enjoys breathing a new life into her beachcombing finds by carefully arranging them into stunning works of art.
The post Christine Rogers Will Make You See Beachcombing in a New Light appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Katie Brooks is Transforming Dried Leaves Into Landscape Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Brooks always knew she was going to be an artist, but getting there was easier said than done. She spent her childhood collecting leaves and creating art in her family living room, but committing to it full-time seemed like an uncertain and unstable choice, so she took her career in a different direction.
After years of being surrounded by art without actually making it, Brooks decided she couldn’t ignore her true calling any longer. She started painting landscapes on dried leaves, and her signature “100 Painted Leaves Collection” eventually helped her summon the courage to become an artist full-time after her tiny leaf paintings brought her joy that was missing from her life.
Most of her leaves hail from the woods near her home in North Carolina, and she always looks for sturdy, intact leaves with a good shape. She then presses the leaves in an old history book and lets them dry for about a month before prepping them with acrylic gesso and getting ready to paint on them.
The post Katie Brooks is Transforming Dried Leaves Into Landscape Paintings appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Flora Forager is Arranging Flowers Into Intricate Works of Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Collins describes herself as a petal painter, light seeker, and flower nymph, who’s making magic happen from her home near Seattle. She enjoys exploring the wildflower woodlands around her home and finding tiny treasures she can later use in her art.
“I forage flowers from my creations from foliage and flowers plucked from our sidewalks, meadows, and woods in our neighborhood. I also have plenty of “paints” from my small garden in the city, and my mother’s big rambling secret garden filled with old English roses in the sea town of Edmonds,” she wrote on her official website.
Collins found viral fame with her signature “petal paintings” that see her arranging flowers, petals, and other botanical materials to craft elaborate scenes. It can take her anywhere between 30 minutes and a few hours to finish them up, but the process of imagining each piece is much longer because she has to come up with an idea before she can go out in nature and collect flowers.
The post Flora Forager is Arranging Flowers Into Intricate Works of Art appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Kelsey Schroeder’s Pottery is a Love Letter to Mother Nature appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Schroeder discovered pottery during her high school years, when he attended beginner-friendly wheel classes at her local YMCA. She picked a photography major during her time in college but struggled spending time in the darkroom after working with clay for hours. She decided to switch her focus to ceramics, and this was where she found her true calling, later displaying her work in galleries all around Cedar Rapids.
After years of experimenting with different subjects, Schroeder is best known for her wildlife series, which celebrates many unique creatures and the beauty of their environments.
“My work has always been inspired by the natural world, particularly the immense biodiversity our planet supports and the unique and beautiful qualities each species adds to their habitat and to our world as a whole,” she writes on her official website.
Schroeder finds inspiration everywhere from coral reefs and ocean tides to desert landscapes and the heart of the forest. She wants her work to make a difference in the world and help protect our planet’s future, so she’s donating a portion of each sale to the World Wildlife Fund.
The post Kelsey Schroeder’s Pottery is a Love Letter to Mother Nature appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Bria Singer Transforms Everyday Objects Into Stunning Terrariums appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Singer is based in Columbus, Ohio, and she embarked on quite a journey after graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2019. She explored many different art forms, but finally felt like something clicked when she started making terrariums in 2021 and discovered the meditative power of working with plants.
“Creating these little worlds gives me such a sense of control. It’s an art form that truly sends me into a flow, or as my high school art teacher used to call it, “right-brain space”… When you stop feeling the time pass, escape the thought loops that plague your mind, and you’re fully experiencing the present,” she wrote on Instagram.
Singer is a huge believer that terrariums can thrive in any environment and the list of vessels she used to build these tiny worlds is pretty impressive. They’re built from everything from wine glasses and butter dishes to teapots and cookie jars, and she often looks for unique vessels at local thrift stores to give her terrariums a retro feel.
The post Bria Singer Transforms Everyday Objects Into Stunning Terrariums appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Raffaele Di Lallo is Helping People Keep Their Plants Alive appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Raffaele Di Lallo runs a popular Instagram page Ohio Tropics, and his extensive plant knowledge helped him attract over 260,000 followers to his page. He’s on a mission to provide real, practical advice for growing plants, and he has all the credentials to get the job done since he’s been taking care of them for years.
Di Lallo grew up surrounded by plants and was exposed to gardening by his family at a pretty young age. He mostly took care of outdoor plants until middle school, when he turned his attention to indoor plants in an attempt to purify the air in his house because his father was smoking a lot.
Di Lallo gathered so much knowledge about plant care over the years that one of his friends encouraged him to start his own blog. Ohio Tropics was born and blossomed into such a huge success that Di Lallo eventually decided to quit his job as a chemical engineer and work as a content creator full-time, eventually publishing several books, including Houseplant Warrior.
The post Raffaele Di Lallo is Helping People Keep Their Plants Alive appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Inga Ilze Peterson’s Paper Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Peterson fell in love with art as a child, and she was drawn to many different types of creative expression, from working on her pencil drawings to making doll clothes. She pursued her passion for art by studying fine art and industrial and graphic design.
Peterson has also enjoyed nature for as long as she can remember, and she spent a lot of time in her youth exploring the fields and forests near her family home in Michigan. Her love for nature inspired her to start experimenting with floral still life – and the rest is history.
“I realized that I needed a way to create long-lasting still life subjects that wouldn’t wilt before I finished a painting. I started experimenting with paper flowers and quickly discovered that I wanted to spend all of my studio time creating and designing three-dimensional botanical art,” she explains on her official website.
In addition to making the most realistic paper flowers you’ll ever see, Peterson is on a quest to help other people do the same. She offers tutorials on her Patreon page, in addition to hosting virtual workshops on Zoom.
The post Inga Ilze Peterson’s Paper Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Paper Lene’s Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Birkmann is a talented paper artist from Germany who loves nature in all its glory. She’s an animal lover and avid reader who enjoys long walks in nature, watching movies and TV shows, and getting creative with paper. She was studying German and history when she started her account, and paper art became her favorite creative outlet during her studies.
Birkmann’s paper flowers are handmade from high-quality Italian crepe paper, and she sees them as a great long-lasting decoration. In addition to making paper replicas of her favorite flavors, she also accepts commissions on her Etsy page, where she sold almost 200 paper flowers.
No flower is off limits for this talented artist, and we’ve seen her study many different species in an attempt to make their life-like paper replicas. From tulips and dahlias to roses and sunflowers, she created hundreds of paper flowers in the past few years, and the more time passes, the harder it is to tell that they’re not actually real.
The post Paper Lene’s Flowers Will Make You Do a Double Take appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>The post Krystal Duran Wants to Help You Become a Crazy Plant Lady appeared first on PlayJunkie.
]]>Taking care of plants didn’t come naturally for Duran, and she’s proof that anyone can do it if they truly put their mind to it. Before becoming a plant-fluencer with almost 700,000 Instagram followers under her belt, she actually killed every plant she ever owned.
Everything changed when she moved from California to Indiana and started looking for a low-energy hobby that could help her cope with the stress of being a social worker. Taking care of plants seemed like a good fit because she always loved nature, and a tiny cactus Walter reignited her passion for plant care.
She learned everything she knows today through many years of trial and error, and she eventually decided to share her expertise with the world. She’s using her platform to post fun and educational videos about plant care, in an attempt to make it understandable and less intimidating for people who are at the very start of their journey.
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