Do you need to add a stuffed, explosive combat ordinance plush to your collection? Well, now you can with Clay the Claymore plush.

Fine art, painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture
Do you need to add a stuffed, explosive combat ordinance plush to your collection? Well, now you can with Clay the Claymore plush.

Roland Garros has been creating posters for the French open since 1981. It’s interesting to see the aesthetics and styles change over 40+ years.
Crochet folks are a tight knit group, and over the last couple years, a chicken pattern exploded in popularity. So popular to the point that the knit results have turned into emotional support stuffed animals.
There’s a very good chance you learned how to draw the diamond S in your younger days. Someone turned it into a clock.

From Scott McCloud, Five Card Nancy consist of thinking five random panels from the Nancy comic strip and making a three panel comic. It’s like Cards Against Humanity, but more surreal.
The Legacy of Hokusai’s Great Wave
Of course, the Great Wave was made to be reproduced. It has never had a definitive form. Hokusai’s original brush drawing would have been destroyed when the printers cut the woodblocks in 1831, and though no one knows exactly how many impressions from the original blocks still exist, it’s thought to be about 100. No two prints could ever have been the same. Variation was built into its creation – yet somehow, despite or perhaps because of all the variations, the design itself retains, whatever its context, a sort of universal meaningfulness.
XOXO Festival is a one of a kind art, media, and technology conference in Portland. Its speakers are well known in various online and offline circles, and the talks inspire a liveliness and curiosity.
One talk, by Cabel Sasser, from the 2024 XOXO iteration tells about a painting in a McDonalds that leads to a discovery of a prolific, unknown talent.