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Mar 3, 2013 - Jim Doran is an artist, diorama maker, animator and musician living in Baltimore, Maryland.

A lot of artists create their art, and then look for a something to enclose and display it. Not this one, he finds ready made, recycled containers and then produces his art inside it. American Artist Jim Doran, uses all sort of (recycled) containers and upcycles them by creating miniature dioramas inside them. The following is a list of a few of the materials he uses to showcase his art: spoons, sardine tins and different types of small metal boxes. The following is how Doran lists the…

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This month at Alpha Stamps, it's all about Alice. My favorite characters from Alice in Wonderland happen to be the Tweedles, both Dum and Dee. Guess who got star billing on the two works I did this month? First, I made an altered tin. I removed the lid before covering the outside with polka dotted paper, and the inside with a beautiful background image from a collage sheet. The outside mushrooms are a chipboard insert. I used colored pencils and Copic markers to paint the mushrooms to match…

Magically, my internet works again (for now...) so I'm just going to take advantage of it and blog before it craps out again randomly! I made this altered altoids tin shrine for my pal Audio for her belated birthday! I first sanded the whole thing down to remove the Altoids labeling and colors, and also so the paint would stick to it. I used regular artist acrylics, and they're a little bit transparent, so the shiny metal showed through a bit... I liked the effect :) For the inside, I took a…

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