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My Art.
Disclaimer: I'm not showing off! I'm...just sharing. V___V
My house is full of art. Only a very small portion of this is my own work. I know artists who only hang their own work in their homes; I think that's so one-dimensional. It's what you like that defines your taste, in my opinion. Without tastes and influences and preferences, what kind of artist are you?
Anyway, here's a little of my eclectic collection.
We'll start with one of mine. I did this when I was eighteen. Watercolor on cold-press D'Arches paper. 18 x 21.
I did not peak early...I rocked early. This is what I was doing before I found leatherwork...a little of everything (except oils yuk!) but mostly watercolor.
That's not everything. I'm trying not to make it look like an Applebee's in here, but I just keep finding new art for my walls! To paraphrase Roy Scheider in "Jaws"; we're going to need a bigger house.
My house is full of art. Only a very small portion of this is my own work. I know artists who only hang their own work in their homes; I think that's so one-dimensional. It's what you like that defines your taste, in my opinion. Without tastes and influences and preferences, what kind of artist are you?
Anyway, here's a little of my eclectic collection.
We'll start with one of mine. I did this when I was eighteen. Watercolor on cold-press D'Arches paper. 18 x 21.
I did not peak early...I rocked early. This is what I was doing before I found leatherwork...a little of everything (except oils yuk!) but mostly watercolor.
I have a collection of boomerangs. They're made by a good friend of mine, Pat Cardiff (who is a work of art himself...really neat human being, that one). While they are functional boomerangs (Pat prides himself on that) they are also some of the neatest art-objects I own.
I really have to take these down and take them outside, to photograph in the daylight. Want to get Pat's permission first though. The seahorse was a special request (I love hippocampus...one of my favorite mythical critters. Half horse, half fish. Merhorse, I suppose).
There are more...I couldn't fit them all in. The boomerang that looks like Japanese waves is also a special request...Hokusai's "The Great Wave" is one of my favorite pieces of art, ever (that one hangs over the fish tank), so Pat did his own take on it. It's the most cleverly constructed boomerang he's ever made, in my opinion.
You had better believe Pat has at least as many of my masks on his wall as I have of his 'rangs. He's part of my "Mutual Artist Admiration Society". He "gets" my work (He's the only person besides myself and Resmiranda who utterly LOVES the Ouroboros mask...so of course I gave him one).
Here's my Otsuka print! Kagami Jiishi, all matted and framed. This is certainly the new centerpiece in my livingroom.
The framer plotzed over it, and actually thanked me for trusting him with it. I guess he doesn't work on pieces like this very often. #34 of 50, woo! Everytime I look at it, I think... "no way". It's that amazing.
Near the Otsuka, two kosode I framed myself. Hand-painted Kimono sleeves. I found them in a box full of junk at a flea market. Char has another hanging in her room.
More Japanese art/antiques. On my bay windowsill...a huge collection of antique Satsuma pottery (owata, my favorite because of the texture) and many Japanese dolls (which aren't expensive but I can't help loving them).
Also some origami I did myself and a couple of netsuke (a maskmaker and a dog, appropriately!). You can't see the netsuke 'cause they're not in the picture! I need to photograph those outside, really.
Another of my watercolors. I did this when I was 17, I think. It's tiny, just 6 x 8.
I freaking HATE this wallpaper, by the way. Hate. It. I need my friend Kris to come over here with a putty knife in her hand and a gleam in her eye, to deliver me from ugly wallpaper hell.
In my bedroom, one of Hokusai's "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji" prints. It's especially appropriate because of the sakura.
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pzb 's art! Her Kisetsu print, which I am madly in love with.
I'm very proud of it, as it is hand-matted BY ME. I actually cut that mat myself and I still have all my fingers.
This is more "wallpaper from hell". It has to go.
Here is the beautiful painting of Sesshoumaru thatpurplerebeccadid for me. I freaking love it! I took it to the same framer who did the Otsuka print. The textured beige matt goes perfectly with her sumi-e style.
rumdiculous sent me this amazing print. She drew a wonderful study of Inuyasha in the rain, all in pencil. I've always loved it.
I used to have a collection of kites, but this is the only one I still display. It's made of hand-painted silk stretched over a bamboo frame. From Thailand.
It's huge, about 5 feet across from wingtip to wingtip. It's special to me, because I bought it at a kite shop in Newport Rhode Island in 2000. That was the last time we were all together in Newport as a family, before Dad died. He always loved kites and we'd always fly them there...he liked this one a lot.
No, I never have flown it! It's too delicate; if it crashed it would surely break. All the kites I fly have fiberglass frames.
I need a Japanese carp kite! I don't have one...hmm. *knows what she wants for mother's day*
I really have to take these down and take them outside, to photograph in the daylight. Want to get Pat's permission first though. The seahorse was a special request (I love hippocampus...one of my favorite mythical critters. Half horse, half fish. Merhorse, I suppose).
There are more...I couldn't fit them all in. The boomerang that looks like Japanese waves is also a special request...Hokusai's "The Great Wave" is one of my favorite pieces of art, ever (that one hangs over the fish tank), so Pat did his own take on it. It's the most cleverly constructed boomerang he's ever made, in my opinion.
You had better believe Pat has at least as many of my masks on his wall as I have of his 'rangs. He's part of my "Mutual Artist Admiration Society". He "gets" my work (He's the only person besides myself and Resmiranda who utterly LOVES the Ouroboros mask...so of course I gave him one).
Here's my Otsuka print! Kagami Jiishi, all matted and framed. This is certainly the new centerpiece in my livingroom.
The framer plotzed over it, and actually thanked me for trusting him with it. I guess he doesn't work on pieces like this very often. #34 of 50, woo! Everytime I look at it, I think... "no way". It's that amazing.
Near the Otsuka, two kosode I framed myself. Hand-painted Kimono sleeves. I found them in a box full of junk at a flea market. Char has another hanging in her room.
More Japanese art/antiques. On my bay windowsill...a huge collection of antique Satsuma pottery (owata, my favorite because of the texture) and many Japanese dolls (which aren't expensive but I can't help loving them).
Also some origami I did myself and a couple of netsuke (a maskmaker and a dog, appropriately!). You can't see the netsuke 'cause they're not in the picture! I need to photograph those outside, really.
Another of my watercolors. I did this when I was 17, I think. It's tiny, just 6 x 8.
I freaking HATE this wallpaper, by the way. Hate. It. I need my friend Kris to come over here with a putty knife in her hand and a gleam in her eye, to deliver me from ugly wallpaper hell.
In my bedroom, one of Hokusai's "Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji" prints. It's especially appropriate because of the sakura.
pzb 's art! Her Kisetsu print, which I am madly in love with.I'm very proud of it, as it is hand-matted BY ME. I actually cut that mat myself and I still have all my fingers.
This is more "wallpaper from hell". It has to go.
Here is the beautiful painting of Sesshoumaru that
purplerebeccadid for me. I freaking love it! I took it to the same framer who did the Otsuka print. The textured beige matt goes perfectly with her sumi-e style. rumdiculous sent me this amazing print. She drew a wonderful study of Inuyasha in the rain, all in pencil. I've always loved it. I used to have a collection of kites, but this is the only one I still display. It's made of hand-painted silk stretched over a bamboo frame. From Thailand.
It's huge, about 5 feet across from wingtip to wingtip. It's special to me, because I bought it at a kite shop in Newport Rhode Island in 2000. That was the last time we were all together in Newport as a family, before Dad died. He always loved kites and we'd always fly them there...he liked this one a lot.
No, I never have flown it! It's too delicate; if it crashed it would surely break. All the kites I fly have fiberglass frames.
I need a Japanese carp kite! I don't have one...hmm. *knows what she wants for mother's day*
That's not everything. I'm trying not to make it look like an Applebee's in here, but I just keep finding new art for my walls! To paraphrase Roy Scheider in "Jaws"; we're going to need a bigger house.
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I don't usually put my own work up, usually because I love other art more than my own. I don't know what that means, but ... maybe someday I'll put something up. I just framed one of my still lifes for my mom, so at least she can enjoy it.
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lol...I'm sure my family (especially mom) has at least one of about everything I do. It's gotten so I'm actuaally embarrassed when I gift them with my art (it's like saying "I don't have any money for x-mas gifts this year!")...that's what over 30 years of making stuff for a living will do to you.
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She's got talent, that one!
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I thought Sesshoumaru was wearing earphones in that picture, for a second. Strange second :)
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The kosode are a favorite of mine. I keep my eye out every time I go to an antique shop or a flea market, hoping for more.
lol..."This Sesshoumaru only uses ear buds."
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I suspect that your house and mine look a lot alike as far as quantity of art on the walls. Mine has a perpetual battle for wallspace between art and bookcases. I have a lot of SCA pieces, obviously (signs of a mis-spent youth...). I have a LOT of Michael Whelan pieces. He's one of my favorite artists, AND he's local. His wife is the sweetest woman. I've got a couple of Tom Cantys, a few Kinuko Crafts, and some other assorted artists who have caught my fancy. Almost none of my own work, oddly enough. My old friend Neil introduced me to fantasy/sf art when we were in high school, and I've been a passionate (if erratic) collector ever since.
But obviously once I've beaten my wallpaper into submission, I need to drive out there and work on yours! (That first one is *really* bad.)
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I even know exactly what I want there instead (textured "grass" wallpaper in a pale sage). *sigh*
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Your art is amazing. *____________*
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I totally agree though - an artist should have a nice, balanced collection of other's art as well as their own. Once I get my studio together, I'm hoping to be able to afford enough frames to get all the art I've collected at cons over the last year and a half up on the wall.
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So how do you think Kisetsu looks matted & framed? It IS a huge mat but I think it turned out nicely.
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Hey! You think someone in "this for that" would be willing to re-paper for me?? For that, I'd barter just about anything.
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I was about to say, "Can you throw those boomerangs??" Because, even if they are extremely pretty (especially the owl one) I would still want to try one...XD
OMG I'm in love with the kimono sleeves. LOVE.
Wow...my picture looks terrible near everything else. lol
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lol...you silly! I think that your print looks AWESOME. So does everyone else who sees it. It's striking & very classy-looking in that frame, too. I even love the way you left the bottom left corner unfinished...it makes you aware that it's hand-drawn.
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...sorry. I miss Avatar.
Now why does it not surprise me that the owl would be a great flier? :P
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I love art. We have a lot of it in our apartment, and more that we haven't put up for lack of space and money for framing. Most of our framed-art are prints, though--I only have a few original pieces. We have a lot of non-framed art, though--pottery, baskets, blown glass, and of course leather masks and dragon plaques.
I am not much of an artist, but it makes sense to me for an artist to decorate her home with more than her own art. After all, your art is not only a reflection of your tastes, but it's also an inspiration too. To have only your own art in your house would be kind of like expecting an author to only own books she had written.
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I think you guys have more wall plaques of mine than anyone else out there! Certainly, you have the most unique one (your wedding gift).
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You need to take videos of those boomerangs in action -- I desperately want to see that swallow in flight! And oh, those prints from PZB and rumi and PR, so pretty...and the dolls! I was always so envious as a little girl of all the family friends who had pretty Girls' Day and Boys' Day dolls.
And I've never been able to touch watercolors without ending up with a huge splotchy mess, so your old stuff is really impressing me too.
If the Mother's Day Fairy doesn't come through for you on the kite -- would a Boy's Day koi noburi windsock be close enough? Ginza in DC usually has a good selection of them in all sorts of sizes and colors. (Also tons of ceramics and kitchenware, tansu that will break your heart, and all sorts of cute tchotchkies including a squillion different adorable maneki neko.) I'm going to be making a trip down there soonish so if there's anything you want me to look for/pick up for you, just holler.
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Oh hey! I think that's exactly what I was thinking about! Colorful carp in different sizes, right? Oh my! *excited*
Y'know...that'd certainly be worth a mask. ;-)
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I'd have to drop on by to see what their current selection is like, but the last time I was there they had those guys in sizes from itty-bitty to humongous, in a variety of colors. Unfortunately their website is kind of broken so I can't check online for prices/selection, but it's in a funky downtown neighborhood I will gladly take any excuse to visit. ;) So drop me a note with preferred colors/sizes/spending limit, etc., or if you like just send me your phone number and I can call you with details whenever I get there. (And if there's any other little Japanese oddments you're looking for -- Daruma figures, or kokeshi dolls, or o-mamori charms, or food...there's an excellent little Japanese grocery store in McLean) just let me know and I can keep an eye peeled and put my Elite Shopping Ninjitsu to work for you. ;)
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Hmm...I'd love one that's about 3 feet long, and a little one (maybe a foot to a foot and a half?, to go on the wall with my butterfly. I love blue & green, because I want some contrast for the butterfly ( which is red to yellow). THAT would be awesome.
I can pay you in cash or with barter (I guess this should be in our "this for that" comm, eh?). How'd you like an Elkhound mask? ;-)
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That snow leopard is lovely!
You have some very cool stuff. ^_^
I need to get more original art on my walls.
I have nothing of mine on my walls, because it just feels awkward. And eventually I'd just get tired of it or see all the flaws and hate it. Wah.
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In my humble opinion, you should always hang some of your own work. It helps you remember where you've been, and the really good pieces inspire you when you're in a slump. You do SUCH lovely work...you should be proud of it! I'm proud to have it hanging in my home.