Behold the amazing whimsical Wing’s Castle! Wing began constructing his castle more than 45 years ago, and is still working on it. He never received any kind of architectural schooling. The castle’s interior is 3400 square feet, and some of the towers reach up four stories. It is constructed of more than 500,000 stones. He also made his own stone circle. But the really impressive thing about Wing’s Castle is the fact that it is constructed from more than 85% recycled materials!
4% – only 4% and Bernie lost by .2%. Every vote mattered, some precincts were decided by coin toss! Your vote matters. If you want change you need to vote! The youth of Iowa made a huge difference! A year ago no one would have thought a it would be close race, but we need to win by a landslide!
Imagine what would have happened if more of the youth turned out? Some couldn’t (the Caucus isn’t that accessible) and some didn’t but even with just a small amount of votes we made an impact. Imagine what we can do if more of us turn out!
Get registered! Vote Sanders!
Nevada you saw what happened in Iowa, don’t let it happen again.
In Iowa there was a reason for low turn out (the Caucus was on a weeknight, in an inconvenient location, and you had to be registered democrat ahead of time).
In Nevada you can register democrat THE SAME DAY to vote Sanders and the Caucus is on a Saturday (this Saturday – check out your time and place).
While some of us may have work this Saturday, those who don’t should try to make it out. Nevada has historically had a. youth turn out rate much lower than Iowa and right now Hillary and Bernie are TIED in the polls.
Do you cry whenever you sharpen your lead because you know how expensive that lead was? Then dump that dust out and use it!
You now have free powdered graphite! (If you don’t use a lead pointer, you can buy a solid graphite stick and take a hammer to it – yes, I’ve done this – or you can just go ahead and buy powdered graphite.) You can use a dry brush to paint it on your pencil drawings for a soft, light blended effect. Or…
Add a drop or two of water and mix until it dissolves. Remember that softer lead will produce darker effects, so add more or less water depending on how dark or light you want to go.
You now have powdered graphite AND erasable paint!
Paint whatever the crap.
Lift that crap out with an eraser. Darker graphite won’t come out completely, but you can soften, blend, and lighten it. You can also smudge it with a finger or brush.
Then you can go in and detail it with the same pencil you cannibalized to make the graphite powder, and it’ll all blend together because it’s the same crap.
But painting with graphite is nice because you can block in large areas and detail on top of it. And sometimes you just want to have a “brush” effect, which isn’t so quick and easy with a pointy pencil, or maybe you want to be free and loose the way only a brush can let you be.
There you go! Graphite paintings from repurposed waste materials!
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