Ooh la la Art

Morning!

I've been pinning a lot over on Pinterest lately, particularly art, and let me tell you that I could go on pinning for DAYS! It's a sickness! My boyfriend makes fun of me and says I look hypnotized every time I'm on it! Welllll, it's like a rabbit hole of awesomeness that I get sucked into! Guilty as charged, and who can blame me? I'm not the only one that loves looking at stuff and then digitally hoarding it, or else there wouldn't be a Pinterest! He has lovingly called me that too by the way, a digital photo hoarder... hehehehehe! Not like the show on hoarders though, although from time to time he has poked fun at me about potentially growing old and filling the house with vases, suzanis, trinkets, succulents and pretty much everything else! As for that, all I'm going to say is... no comment! Just kidding!

So anyway, I realize now that I've mentioned Pinterest quite a few times and have yet to really explain what it is for those of you who may not know, sorry about that! Pinterest is a free image sharing site where you can "pin" a.k.a. save images to one or more online boards/photo albums. However its most unique and innovative feature is the "Pin It" tool, which you simply drag to your bookmark menu/bar (from here) where it becomes a button. From then on, whenever you're on a site and you see an image you love and want to ~~hoard~~ save for later inspiration and ideas, you simply click that little "Pin It" button and suddenly the page you're on turns into a little picture shopping platform of sorts, wherein you can select any images from the site that you would like to pin/save to any of your "boards" a.k.a photo albums. There's also a handy HTML embedding feature, which you may have noticed I've been using in my posts lately. I'll admit, sometimes I feel guilty about pumping out so many images and not sourcing/linking each one individually, but now that Pinterest has come to save the day I think I can manage, most of the time. Oh, and since Pinterest eliminates the need to save images to your computer (except those really special can't-take-your-eyes-off-them images of course), it's saving my hard drive (and many others, I'm sure) from a potential picture crash! Ok ok, so I suffer from severe picture mania, but I'm at peace with it - I simply plan to purchase one of those terra byte stand-alone external storage towers, or whatever it is those sexy black beauties are called! On that note, can you believe how far the whole external flash drives/other external USB storage devices have rapidly evolved in storage capacity and decreased in price? I remember when a 128MB USB flash drive stick was super expensive, HA! :)

Okay enough! On to the topic of this post... art! I love art, then again who doesn't... is there someone who doesn't? Art is the expression of passion and creativity and it is a visible evolution of creativity and innovation throughout time! There's a lot art out in the world and I'm really having fun discovering a lot it, particularly newer/recent artwork! Bottom line folks - I've "pinned" and saved an insane amount of art and I'm gonna bring it 'atcha over the course of several posts, and I'm calling it the Ooh la la Art series! Ha... enjoy!

PS - I'm particularly taken with the wild rainbow hair watercolor ladies (the one above and the one towards the end of this post) and wish I knew the artist's name.... I did some quick Google searching but didn't turn up anything, I can't trace it back to anything that appears to be an original source on Pinterest either. Does anyone out there know? They are striking and have inspired me to try out the look, in watercolor painting that is, not dying my hair rainbow colors! Boy am I chatty today, especially considering it's 6:00am and I haven't gone to sleep yet! What can I say, I was watching all the new premieres of my favorite shows on XFinity and Hulu and after battling the dry sleepy drooping eyes bit I've come upon a second wind! I assure you, this "PS" could go on forever and, so, I bid you farewell and adios amigos! Have a wonderful day!

If you're interested in joining or finding out more about Pinterest or even checking out all my "pins" and "boards" then check out the links below: