Art

We recently went to Whidbey Island for a trip to visit family. Jacob and I went with the intention of purchasing some of Raven Rocks Studio's glorious artwork. Raven Rocks is run by Jacob's mother Mary Jo and her lovely mate Windwalker! We decided that art can be a sustainable practice too, by taking the "manufacture" out of store purchased artwork we are helping to decrease the amount of resources put into getting that art work home. Let me explain, store purchased art has to be "constructed" somewhere, shipped to a warehouse facility, then purchased by say Wal-mart. Then the consumer has to go to the store, purchase it and bring it home. Surely there are many other steps involved in that process but simplified... there it is. Now purchasing from local artists is a sustainable practice, let me explain my logic. All supplies are shipped to one location, the studio. That large roll of canvas will be used for many paintings but still only shipped once. The same with paint. So we decided it's going to be local art or regional art for us! Plus supporting creativity and artists just feels good!

A great website that Mary Jo turned me onto is called Etsy, this little gem is for artists who make things handmade! It can be broken down into artists from your local city to topics of interest.

Also I took the Handmade pledge, what this means is for the Holiday season, to buy me only gifts hand made by you or others. A website with wonderful links to different hand made sites is Buy Handmade.

Blessings and creativity to artists, so that I may buy from you!