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This Artist Gets Her Hands Dirty By Creating Images Out Of… Well, Dirt

All those times we were told not to play with dirt as kids! What were we thinking!

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Paint is so passé these days, man. Why not make art out of trash? Or an upside-down urinal you found somewhere? Or how about dirt, even? Sarah Rosado sure likes that last one — she uses dirt to create illustrations as a part of a series she calls “Dirty Little Secrets.” To be honest, if she’d called it anything else, we’d be real disappointed.

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“I am always looking at other artists’ work online and was impressed by many works that include images created with food, flowers and other objects,” Rosado said in an e-mail. “This motivated me to come up with my own ideas and create images using dirt. I have not seen this before and felt it would be challenging for me to come up with an idea to shape dirt into everyday objects and accessorize it to create a 3-D effect.”

Dirt sounds like an incredibly strange tool to use for illustration, but as you can see, it works surprisingly well if you’re willing to give it a shot.

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And here’s one more picture of her in action.
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You can check out more of Rosado’s work on her website.

(via Sarah Rosado)

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