<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dd325af0-7965-410b-9141-d7f7a69489dd/CAA260D2-53A2-4140-97AC-0DC4BD382D68/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://greenupgrader.com/2458/schimmel-art-upcycled-bits-are-greater-than-their-sum/" href="http://greenupgrader.com/2458/schimmel-art-upcycled-bits-are-greater-than-their-sum/" style="font-size: 11px;">greenupgrader.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenupgrader.com/2458/schimmel-art-upcycled-bits-are-greater-than-their-sum/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/greenupgrader.com/img/D731EF51-BF59-49F8-AD70-1861697328E5" alt="Schimmel Art" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenupgrader.com/2458/schimmel-art-upcycled-bits-are-greater-than-their-sum/"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://www.schimmelart.com/index.htm">S A Schimmel Gold</A> is an eco-conscientious artist that strives to create something from nothing. <EM>“Look closely for menu items, junk mail postcards, business cards, old greeting cards, cruise itineraries, gallery openings… stand back to view the sum of the parts - a textural representation of beauty</EM><STRONG>.” </STRONG>Living by the old eco adage “creating not wasting” Schimmel has perfected the fine art of portraiture using upcycled “bits” to create colorful mosaics. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://greenupgrader.com/2458/schimmel-art-upcycled-bits-are-greater-than-their-sum/">Schimmel saw the explosion of color in mundane articles such as junk mail and advertisements and saw an easy and free source of color to work with.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CAA260D2-53A2-4140-97AC-0DC4BD382D68/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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