buy an original piece of art

I am a muralist/watercolor artist/teacher and my sis is an abstract acrylic painter. Our works are on cottagesweetcottage.com. Go see! We love collectors

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Thanks to Edina for commenting on my entry and reminding me of this goal. I just reread the entry I wrote 10 months ago – I haven’t bought this piece yet, but I did indeed get a tax refund recently. My intermediate goal now is to go to the artist’s studio in Janury to see her new series and definitively decide that I want it (and so I’ll buy it) or I don’t, so I can stop thinking about it.

We went to the Artists Against Aids show this year and M bought me a couple of pieces for our anniversary. What a thoughtful gift. I’ll take some pictures and post them soon.

I have a fantasy about having a whole collection of original pieces in my home, and having a gallery for them. I was at an open studio event last spring when I found an artist I love…her name is Linda Cordner and she works in encaustics…such a warm, tactile, sensual medium. I’d love to have one of her pieces, and have decided many times that I’m going to go ahead and buy one, but in the end I can’t get my head around spending the money. Her works are smallish (12” x 12”) maybe if they were bigger I would feel better about it? I know that’s not the way to think about art, but it is unfortunately the way I’ve come to think about money. I guess the real goal here is “change my preconceived notions about the value of money.” Anyway, I think she is doing a new collection now. I’ll try to go back to her studio at her next event (first thursday of every month) and see what she’s working on. I’d like to buy something during June (maybe w/my tax refund, if I get one). I’ll consider this goal accomplished when i have the work hanging on my wall!

I haven’t seen too many black-n-white oil paintings before, but this one of a Parisien city scene stole my heart. It reminds me of the week I spent there in cold February. I just get lost in it. It’s awesome to find an orginal painting that just calls out to you like that.

Whatever you decide to buy, you have to be able to forget how much you paid for it, and love it as an object rather than an object that’s “worth” something. Find something you’re crazy about.