Blue Floral

INSPIRATION: This "Blue Floral" Oil Painting also is made up of reuse materials though you might not have guessed it! To me that is the best of recycling when it's not apparent that it's made of recycled materials and then there's the surprise when it's told. I found brand new thick corrugated cardboard used between brand new plastic-wrapped office furniture and I grabbed it because I immediately saw possibilities. Sure saving the landfill is a big issue, but I had an impetus for this method before the landfill became an issue to the general public, so that is kind of like the icing on the cake for me. But I have been recycling from way back as my grandmother and mother, alive during the Great Depression also did. Raised in scarcity as well initially reuse became a practical thing because their was a dearth of materials so there was endless innovation as a practice when I grew up. We never termed it Upcycling, Reuse, Recycling, Reclaiming or Reconditioning back then, but there is somet