From artist, Erin Stevens: “The base of the pendant is the bottom of a beer can. I haven’t figured out a way to incorporate the entire can, but at least it is a start.”
I love the simplicity not to mention the creativity! When you wear this lovely…. only YOU will know its thorns. Created by a member of the Etsy Recycler’s Guild
$18.00 at Erins Apparel’s Etsy Shop
Crafted entirely by hand from different colors of concrete and crushed glass. The glass/concrete mixture fills formed stainless steel and brass. Some of the pieces created by this artist contain 75% post consumer recycled glass collected from local beaches. Check out the variety of shapes and sizes …clouds, lightning bolts, flowers, teardrops, hearts, and clovers!
$28.00 – $85.00 at DrCraze’s Etsy Shop
From “Artesa”, created from recycled magazine pages using a “rolling” process that artist, Flavia, learned as a child while playing with movie tickets and store receipts. These days, she rolls up scrap magazine pages, while carefully choosing the perfect color of the coils and slowly shapes her bowls and baskets. The results take weeks to create!
Artesa Etsy Shop
Since everyone loved Cheeming Boey, here’s another artist working on coffee cups….Paul Westcombe (b. 1981).
His work can be found in London’s Trinity Contemporary and The Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea.
Cheeming Boey, an artist from Newport Beach, CA, creates his art using a Sharpie and recycled Styrofoam cups. Ever since 2006, Boey started drawing on foam cups as a hobby and has now turned the project into a serious business. Each cup takes a few hours to several months to create. His work was recently on view at the Brea Art Gallery from June 6 to July 9 as part of the show called: “Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle”. Check out his flickr page for more sytrofoamy wonderfulness…. Here is a link to a good interview about his life and influences. His website, at http://iamboey.com/ features his journal in a comic series …very cute!
His cups are available for purchase from his etsy shop and range in price from $140.00 to $250.00 at http://www.etsy.com/shop/boyobsolete. I suspect they are a good investment!
