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 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*