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DanaArts Podcast

Dana Thorup

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Christmas Time

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/12/24

What a great time of year. I love getting together with family and enjoying this time of celebrating Christ’s birth. With all the gifts and the way Christmas is promoted it’s hard at times to teach our kids why we have this Holiday. My 5 year old wasn’t quite connecting this holiday with Christ. After we’ve been exlaining it she now knows, but still is excited about the rest of the holiday. I hope we can all enjoy this Christmas season and to remember the true meaning of Christmas

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Thanksgiving Time

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/11/24

I love this season. The fall colors. The leaves that start to fall off all the trees. Where I live I only get a glance of that depending on where a good tree with leaves is, lol, but I still enjoy it. The cool weather is perfect here in Arizona.Thanksgiving always reminds me of my childhood and mainly my Grandma and Grandpa's house. Cousins would come and we had a great time playing together. The smells of the turkey, mash potatoes, squash, etc. were so enjoyable while we played. All the adults in

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Get away!

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/10/20

No I don't mean get away from me or anything like that, I mean at times we need to get away from our daily routine and re freshen up. That is what I did this past week. Just my family and I went to enjoy Pinetop, AZ for a bit. Loved the cooler weather and the pine trees everywhere remind me of my home town, but smaller. We enjoyed bike riding, horseback riding at Snowy Mountain Stables, and hiking trails. I completely forgot about my normal life for a while. That is how it should be. Forget and

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Portraits

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/09/15

I love taking portraits. They are fun and can give a good story about a person along with some personal character. I was just having some fun with my daughter as she was posing for the camera. She always has a great smile and does great with pictures. That's the best way to be able to capture someone in their comfortable natural state. Whey posed too much it can be awkward or unnatural in some cases. I'm glad I was able to capture this moment in time. That's what photography is all about. Those

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Solar Eclipse 2017

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/08/22

Solar Eclipse 2017. I was not fortunate enough to be able to be in the spot of totality. I was at work and did not even have my good camera. So I used what I had, an iphone 6. This is what I got. It was still exciting, but I really need to make the effort to see it in totality on April 8, 2024. Either way these are a few shots I got. the lower one the camera didn't capture it, but the lens flare did. Kinda cool. Anyway, I hope anyone watching had a great time. I know I did. :) Nature is just

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Breathtaking!

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/08/03

Kinda raining with clouds around yet letting the sun shine through. I had to stop the car. I got out and took this panorama of a double rainbow on my way home from work yesterday. Magical and breathtaking. It's like the road leads right under it or to the pot of gold at one end. To me just seeing it was my pot of gold.

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Old to inspire

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/07/21

I've been going through all my old packed up belongings and I have come across some of my old pottery and gourd canteens. Sometimes I forget what I've done in the past and move one. Well sometimes, like this time, I can look back and get inspired by my own work. lol. It gives me new ideas and ways to make new things. I love it. It's like a whole cycle. Maybe forgetting sometimes is a good way to be inspired by the old. The old becomes new

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Artist shove down

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/06/19

I love being an artist. Coming up with new ideas and seeing how they turn out. Sometimes they are cool and other times they should be thrown away. Either way it's just fun developing ideas. Well a job can kinda ruin that. Maybe not all jobs, but some can. For example you actually can't design anything because the customer is the one designing it (or a sales person). In the end you have to make it they way they like it and it's still art, but for me sometimes that kills creativeness. Yes it can also

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Coil Pots

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/05/19

I miss working with clay. I've mainly only mixed my natural clay and built coil pots and fired them in an open fire. I really don't have access to natural clay anymore so I have tried buying some pre mixed clay that seamed to be similar to what I would mix. I have not had time to test fire it yet, but I miss mixing and working with clay. I think I have too many hobbies that I just can't get enough time for. I bounce around between them and never get to fully fulfill my intentions. I don't have time

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Father and Son's camping

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/05/08

I like to try and go camping with my son and daughter a few times a year. This year I have not been able to do anything till this past weekend. Mainly it's that I don't trust my jeep anymore now that it's getting old. I prefer going with someone just in case. So we (my son and I and Red our dog) went on a Father and Son's camp out. We really enjoyed our time together. We hiked down a creek bed that was not too easy and had lots of areas that we had to climb around to keep going. We would even pass

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Leatherworking

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/04/29

This is something I enjoy very much. I've never fully done or made all that I've wanted to or I haven't learned everything I want to learn about it. I've usually only made things out of soft leather, but would love to start learning how to work hard and thick leather along with tooling it. I might also try and mix leather with material. Maybe this year I can get back into leather work because I miss it. If you read this and don't see any postings of images with leather in them, then please reach

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Ideas

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/03/31

Ideas are always around, but sometimes it's hard to get inspired. I shot this in my backyard of a sunflower that has not yet bloomed. Well it has now, but not in this image. So Sometimes when I don't have any inspiration or ideas coming for designing something or for photography I have to just do something. By doing something and not standing still, eventually I'll get inspired to move in a certain direction. Then it grows and I start getting a little passionate or obsessive about it. Then I exhaust

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Sunshine

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/03/08

Sunshine is here. It's already going to be in the 80's here in Arizona. One good thing is that my garden is doing well. Here is one of the sunflowers starting to do it's magic. The little bee is helping too. So yes, it looks like it's all sunshine from here on out.I've been busy with projects for other people. Maybe soon I can work on some new designs. :)

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Sketching

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/02/22

It's so fun to sketch, but I'm not great at it. Sometimes things will turn out great and other times they don't. Sometimes I have to work hard at it and other times it just works out. I guess it all depends on the type of sketching taking place, but I'm talking in general. Either way I like it and it's fun. Here some old sketches I've done over the past year. Not sure what they are. lol. So yeah lately it's been patterns. They are what I like to do best. I'll have to try and post something other

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Progress

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/01/25

Progress is important in many ways. That is how we move forward. If we are not progressing then we are only going the opposite way. My progress is slow since I only can work on Dana Arts a few hours a night and not every night. Either way I do my best to progress and move towards my goals. This year I really hope to be active and share as much about what I do as I can. As new designs come out I'll be adding them to my site and non produced rings will be rendered in an obvious way to know it's not a

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Lunch time hikes

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/01/16

I love to hike and I have a job where I sit all day. I love winters here in Arizona because they are not that cold. So at lunch time I go for a 45 minute walk on a small trail that leads across the top ridge of the small mountain. It's a great view and at least gives me some movement in the day. Exercise is important to me so this is the way to do it. Take advantage of all the time available. Lets all start the new year with being strong and moving along and never

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Red is now 3 months old

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/01/09

So I took this picture of Red with the help of my daughter. It wasn't easy because red is very active. We at least got this one cute shot of him. It has been difficult or tiring for us having a new puppy, but he is doing great. He's growing so fast. I hope we don't teach him any bad habits as he grows. Lol

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First Designs

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/01/06

So I've been thinking about some of the designs I have done and have never been made before. I have quite a few. Not all of them are great, but some of them are pretty cool. I do not like putting up the rendered images of my designs because it can cause a little confusion about what the finished product will look like. I do my best to render them like the real thing, but the overall finish is never the same. I'm talking about the overall shine, blackening, and hard to reach places. The renders are

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Happy New Year 2017

DanaArts Podcast ·

2017/01/01

Happy New Years!

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Christmas

DanaArts Podcast ·

2016/12/24

What a wonderful time of year. I just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas!

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