Artist Draws All 100,000 Objects in Grandpa’s Shed

MakeZine ^ | July 29, 2015 | Donald Bell

[MinuteGal]

Chip and Joanna Gaines of HGTV's "Fixer Upper" show will purchase one of those "tool" hangings, center it over a fireplace mantel and it'll be part of the accessories "staging" in one of their "country chic" flip houses.

(....and I must say I think it'll look pretty good...as well as being an interesting conversation piece).

Leni

[Ditter]

I do blame the instructors! In a painting class we were given a short story to read and then create a painting. The title was The Pot That Was Not A Pot.

It was stupid beyond belief and made no sense at all. A druggies dream.

My husband has a bit of a belly so I had him pose for me and I painted a ceramic pot with a belly button that looked like his belly. It was obviously a pot and a belly.

The instructor acted like he was confused when he looked at my painting and said he could not make sense of it. I think the story he had us read was actually written by him while he was high as a kite.

[ETL]

And it IS interesting to think that the grandson was so touched by his grandfather’s death that he wanted to preserve the things in the shed before they were given away or destroyed.

THAT I can understand and relate to. My grandfather was a big-time tinkerer himself. He would bring home stuff people threw away, fix it, and give it away to friends and neighbors. I wouldn't think of getting rid of his tools that he used and cared so much about when he was alive. But to painstakingly draw every scrap of stuff he owned would, frankly, be a bit weird, IMO. And I was an amateur landscape painter earlier in my life, so I do appreciate the art aspect.