Post by mrssavy42112 on May 21, 2012 12:25:34 GMT -5
I have some smaller art pieces such as pictures & floral drawings that I've collected on vacations. My one big piece is a hand painted 16x20 oil on canvas piece that I purchased from a Brooklyn-based artist that I 'met' via Twitter named Lenore Cohen. Her work is beautiful. The piece was $200, but cost me about $300 for custom framing. It's hanging above my bed & is the centerpiece of our bedroom.
Post by futurepivko on May 21, 2012 12:25:37 GMT -5
The only artwork I have were done by my late great-grandfather. He was an artist who only painted for family and friends, or as donated prizes for charity events,he never sold his work. My grandma has his masterpiece. We have them spread out throughout the house.
Post by liveintheville on May 21, 2012 12:35:09 GMT -5
We like to buy something from each big vacation we take. And we have Open Studios every year in my city. Most of our stuff is from there. Local artists whose stuff we like. Our local cafe, also, has an art exhibit each month from various local artists and it's all for sale.
Other than that, I have a few Edward Gorey lithographs. I, also, check out the silent auctions on our local NPR and PBS sites. Someday that Marc Chagall will be mine! Well, if I win a crap load of money in the lottery.
Post by basilosaurus on May 21, 2012 12:40:58 GMT -5
We don't have enough walls for our art. My grandmother and aunt are both artists, so I have some of their stuff (free!).
H commissioned some awesome oils (I think we have 4, fairly large) way out in an artist commune when he was in Beijing. Cheap, if your employer is paying for your flight.
We have framed hand painted dish towels (sounds weird, but they're meant to be framed) from Japan. About $20 each (again, if you're not paying for a flight)
We also have a ton of scrolls that I don't currently have room to hang. I have no idea what they cost, but H bought them all when he was living in China, so I'm guessing cheap.
I have commitment issues, so we have no art on our walls save for a few framed photos of us or our family. I can't even buy a graphic t-shirt without breaking into a cold sweat.
Post by bluelikejazz on May 21, 2012 12:56:06 GMT -5
Most of our art is done by friends, family members, or me. (2 pics I did in HS - one watercolor, one colored pencil, 1 from an art major friend as a wedding present, and a cross stitch from MIL - not my favorite, but not worth taking down and making waves)
Other than those, we have one pic I got in Salzburg from a street vendor that my mom had framed, and one (currently being framed) from the Botanical Gardens in Sydney (print of a Koala - DH fell in LOVE with it).
Monetarily, the frames are probably worth more than the art...
Post by daringmiss on May 21, 2012 13:05:56 GMT -5
I am also an art history major, so I am very picky about art.
I have bought stuff off of Etsy, but it can't be too expensive or else I worry that I won't like it and can't send it back.
We frequently buy art on trips as a memento of our travels. We have pieces from Barcelona, Paris, Taipei, Tokyo and Costa Rica. Our big art purchase was a couple of years ago while we were in Aspen. It was one of those "That's it!" kind of moments. I still regret that we didn't get one of the other pieces she had, but we had to be sensible.
i love typography stuff - i search for ideas and make my own though. my favorite place to look is wineries - a lot of the wineries here employ local artists to do their labels and then sell the originals and prints in their shops.
We frequently buy art on trips as a memento of our travels.
This is what we do. Usually prints from museums of paintings we like, but also a vintage rugby poster from Sydney and aboriginal artwork as well. Or the guy on some street in Talinn who was painting and I picked a picture of the city he'd made.
I like impressionistic art. I have some original pieces from an artist on Ebay. $500 to $700
I also got a couple from Target!! for $500 They have original art online. I figured I could return it to the store if I didn't like it, and I ended up loving it.
I also have some other wall art from Homegoods and Target, ranging from $20 - $100. I don't like prints in glass frames at all. I don't know how to describe the technique for the art pieces - but none are framed in glass. Also I have some metal pieces (olive branch, a cafe scene, and a decorative scroll)
Have a giclee from overstock - about $300 I am with you - I do not like a lot of personal pictures or big portraits
But under no circumstances do I want massive clusters of personal photos to adorn our walls.
I wish my H shared your aesthetic. We have massive clusters of personal photos everywhere.
The few art pieces we (okay, I) have are a canvas print from Target - cheap, maybe $30-$40. And some things from art students/faculty at our local university - a lithograph, painting, and mixed media textured thing.
We have a few paintings in our dining room (one by DH's grandfather and one that belonged to his grandmother), travel photos in our bedroom, and the rest of the house has various painting or other types of wall hangings that we've picked up on our travels, usually from street vendors.
We seem to buy art when we are on vacation. A few pieces came from an artist in Purto Rico, and they are paintings of Puerto Rico. We bought a painting of the Grand Canal while we were on our honeymoon in Venice. We also bought some paintings and prints on a cruise we took. We also have some from my parents that they had when I was growing up. We had a large painting that we love that's from Hobby Lobby of all places. The pieces vary in size and cost but they are all over our house. We only have photographs in the family room.
Lots of personal photos in frames, and painted vintage plates hanging on the wall. Something creative I stole from a friend was framing international money in a clear "floating" frame. I think it's a cool way to showcase travels. I've also framed postcards and put those in our bookshelves next to the books. They look better than any of my own actual travel photos, but they are from places we've visited. We also have random souvineers from places showcased, like interesting vases grouped together, or seashells with sand in a clear square vase. Not really real art.
We also have generic cheap art from BBB, but we try to steer clear of that as much as possible. I do have a couple illustrations hung up too, a caricature of me and my brother from a family reunion a few years back, a fashion illustration of me from a party, and a few illustrations I did in college that I like. Those are all in my office.
I came pretty close to buying this in a thrift store ("Bridges" by Ralph Fasanella, signed and numbered) but the guy wanted $500 for it. And it was in a broken frame.
Aside from some framed personal photos, our only real "artsy" piece is a blown-up photo of the Cliffs of Moher from our trip to Ireland a few years ago. Shutterfly was running a deal where a 20x30" poster was $7, so I ordered the print and then we picked up a frame somewhere.
At the moment we have very little (you'd be so proud miso) But we're still looking to repaint a lot of the walls.
We're going to have one wall of family photos, but the rest will be random things here and there (we've always had an "eclectic" collection of stuff). We have a colonial-looking print over the fireplace, and some photos of Ireland in our bedroom and bathroom. I like pictures that we took of places we've been.
To be honest, this is the first house where there's not a lot of opportunity to put art up.
We have original art work on our walls -- it started out as modern paintings handed down to us from DH's uncle who loved collecting. They range in price from $500 and up. We do have many of the more expensive ones insured as well. I'm in Portland, and DH and I have previously gone out and about to the monthly gallery openings and we've bought a few pieces here and there the last few years. I do have some prints i bought from Egypt that i framed, our diplomas in the office, our personal pics are framed on shelves, but not mounted on the wall. We don't really like the idea of a HUGE blown pic of ourselves (wedding pics). lol. Our collection spans from this: www.froelickgallery.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=243 www.laurarusso.com/artists/bunce_l.html
Good luck -- obviously, everyone's taste differs, but i feel like poster prints were something that were fun when i was younger, but now that we have a home, it just looks cheesy to me. Our DD"s room does have artists cartoon like drawings framed -
www.stinkydog.com We were able to get some Stinky the dog art prints/drawings framed.
Please tell me you have one of the Cindy Sherman dolls photos...
I wish, although I am sure about 1 other person here would ever hang it in their home. We have a black and white untitled film still from the 70s. She is turning around, half facing the camera in a seductive pose.
Please tell me you have one of the Cindy Sherman dolls photos...
I wish, although I am sure about 1 other person here would ever hang it in their home. We have a black and white untitled film still from the 70s. She is turning around, half facing the camera in a seductive pose.
We have two original paintings in our dining room by friends.
An Indonesian painting in the hallway.
We bought a set of posters at an art show that I fell in love with and are in the processing of framing them (quote to frame the set of four was $1,000- we are still chewing on that!)
Post by eightangryreindeer on May 21, 2012 14:53:27 GMT -5
I like to buy art when we travel. I don't tend towards larger images, but clusters of smaller images; although I do want something big for over our mantelpiece.
My husband had some paintings and a charcoal drawing that he'd picked up at a pawn shop because he liked it (turns out to be a numbered Lowry!), he also has a nice watercolor that I really like called Sydney after Chagall (which is a local take on Chagall's Paris Through the Window).
As it happens, a wall of our dining room is turning out to be a group of photographs, drawings, lithographs, and paintings of places we've lived: Sydney, London, Manchester, NYC, Philadelphia, Avila, etc.
Our guest room has a "beachy" theme, from a painting of a woody station wagon/Venice Beach that DH picked up somewhere to lots of watercolors from vacations, Greece, Aruba, Sicily, and some prints that I picked up in St. Ives in Cornwall.
There is a framed Tibetan thangka of the Buddha making it with a bunch of chicks in our bedroom that an old boyfriend gave me after he did a semester abroad in Tibet...
Do you want art art or posters of art? Are you looking to invest with intent or are you going full on budget or somewhere in the middle and if you happen to get lucky, then hey!
We have one collage of personal photos. The rest are original paintings. We tend to buy on vacations (I have no idea why). Our art has nothing in common other than we both liked each one.