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Contest winner in Trashed Art contest

The original photo by John LeMasney that served as a basis for a winning piece.

LAWRENCE BRANCH LIBRARY RECYCLED ART CONTEST WINNERS

Lawrenceville –The Lawrence Branch of the Mercer County Library System sponsored the Trashed Art Contest to encourage our community to look at trash in a different way and create an awareness of the usefulness of garbage. Winners of the contest were: Sue Kaminski, East Windsor, Sue’s entry “Cap Fish” was made from bottle caps; Gene Dombroski, Ewing, entered “Winter Tree” made of copper wire; and John LeMasney also from Ewing, entered “Dawn, Ocean City” which was a painting on a canvas mosaic of recycled paper squares.

The contest judges were Pete Abrams, a local metal artist, Lori Anselm, a designer at TerraCycle, Ellen Brown, library director, Mercer County Library System (MCLS), Richard Cavallo, chief fiscal officer, MCLS, James Damron, branch manager, Marygrace Billek, director, Mercer County Department of Human Services, and Bill Jones, maintenance engineer, Lawrence Branch of the MCLS. Prizes were donated by the Friends of the Lawrence Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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142 of 365 is a set of sixteen boxes #Inkscape #design

16 boxes
16 boxes

Playing again today with the 3d box tool, just trying to get a feel for it and what it can do. In this case I left the converging axis point on to get classical perspective. Enjoy!

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141 of 365 is a climbing wall in #Inkscape #design

Climbing wall
Climbing wall

So today, I continued using the 3d box tool if only to become more familiar with it. I started playing with the parallel toggles and found that you can choose to have classical perspective or isometric perspective according to the toggles. So I decided to make a pattern, a continuous wall of blocks like Q-Bert battled on top of. Then, I envisioned someone trying to climb up them, and thought “what an incredible task!” So I found some images of people climbing as source material, and using the calligraphy tool, sketched out a climber. I gave her a shadow, and called it done. It is a great personal metaphor for the struggle and potential accomplishment of some recent and upcoming projects. Hope you like it.

  • How to Rock Climb — 5 Ways to Hold on to Rock Climbing Handholds (rockclimbing.suite101.com)
  • Awesome wall-climbing robots, including a “snail” (makezine.com)
  • So You’re Ready to Rock Climb (mountain-rock-climbing.suite101.com)
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140 of 365 is an apartment in #Inkscape #design

Apartment
Apartment

Today’s sketch is an urban dwelling, a comfy corner home, a stacked abode. I was inspired to use the 3d box tool, which I must admit is not used very often by me. In the next few sketches, I’m going to try to focus a bit on this tool in order to see what it has to offer me and how it can extend my style.

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139 of 365 is a mother’s day card in #Inkscape #design

Today’s sketch is a note to all mothers on their day, and to my own Mom too, but very specifically for my wife Dawn. Without the incredible work that you do to help shape Jack and David, I have no doubt that they would not have the very special light that they have, the one that people talk about to us and congratulate us on. Our family relies on you day in and day out to continue to build the networks of learning, morality, and appreciation that you have in order to make our sons as ready as they are for the world and their life ahead of them. We love you so very much for all that you do, and deeply appreciate that you do it. With all of our hearts, we wish you a very happy mother’s day.
Love,
Jack, David, and John.

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138 of 365 is an elephant in #Inkscape #design #tedxnjlibs

Elephant
Elephant

I decided to make this today’s sketch in honor of yesterday’s TEDxNJLibraries event in Princeton which, like an elephant, I will never forget. Cheers to all who were there!