find a painting that i really love and buy it

last week my kids painted with the artist Wylan at a big event for children, and I viewed a lot of great art and collected some pamphlets. I still have sticker shock about the specific price of a good painting…

Well, I’ve identified some artists that I really love. Robert Mango’s work from 2000 and later, Jesse Reklaw’s acrylics about dreams (his cartoon characters are witty but not as moving to me). I love the Stella-like Bascove (I used to want to be a single-name person too!), and the hyperrealistic Mark Workman and Andrew Lenaghan. Too many paintings, too little time (and money!). At least I feel I’m really getting started on this goal.

I love Balinese art. I went to Ubud, the painters’ village of Bali, to find something I wanted and could afford. After days of searching through many art shops and looking at many beautiful works, I found it. It had all the qualities I was hoping for, and all the famous characters in one. There was Hannuman, the monkey king, Sitti, the beautiful dancer, Rhama, the prince, Rhangda, the witch, and Barong, the mischievous, yet good god-like creature. The picture has a kind of sepia tone to it and a carved wooden frame. I had to bargain long and hard to buy this picture at a price I could afford, going back to the shop several times in the course of a week, but finnaly I prevailed, and this work of art hangs in my livingroom. The point is, if you see something you like, go for it. It may take some time and effort, but that’s life. Good things are worth the trouble.

I managed this almost a year ago. I read in the paper that a local small gallery was having a display by a local artist. The artist in question was an old school friend who I hadn’t seen for about 10 years. I went and had a look and one piece jumped out at me…..I couldn’t resist, it’s quite small but it draws you in. Technically it’s not a painting, it’s done in pastels but I love it and am proud to have a Steve Walker original on my lounge room wall.

I loved that picture of Van Gogh. It was a self-portrait of him by the description. Before I went to Washington D.C. I had always loved his art but I never knew he had made a self-portrait. It was amazing. I wish I could paint like that. I wish I had enough money to buy it and hang it up in my apartment because I would do it in a heart beat! Oh well, I can dream right lol

Got paid and bought nearly all of the pictures I wanted…
So much for taking care of my money eh?? :P

They should be arriving soon and I can’t wait to frame them.
Whooopp!! :D x

I really love the Pon and Zi cartoons by Jeff Thomas and I’ve just found out that they now sell photo quality art prints on their website! I’m SO going to buy them all when I get paid and frame them to put around my house. They are so adorable!! =)

They’re not paintings tho… :/

Who cares. :D x

It’s Heather Hannoura – I love her and her artwork. <3

I’m just not sure where I can buy a piece from…

=( x

I actually had a chance to do this late last year, during the holiday season. By random chance I was at the mall, a rarity indeed, and at the main entrance there was an art sale going on. I saw this one painting that I would have loved to put up in my room and I think would have added a very nice effect to the room. Unforunately I didn’t have the money at that time and that was the last day of the sale. So I am hoping to run into the painting again or find something even better.

Sort of off topic now but at least it is related and goes with that last statement. I find that when you choose something as your favorite you have to always leave an oppurtunity for that to change. New things are always coming out and you never know if that new thing sparks something in you. For instance I have gone through three favorite bands, I have gone from Disturbed, to Nightwish and now to Trivium. So in a sense and what goes with this website you should always be looking for greater, heheh, in a good way of course. But it also nice to settle.

I have seen so many fantastic paintings that I wish I had snapped up at the time, but didn’t. I want to find a painting that I can completely relate to – or a painting thst symbolises something I truely believe or feel and buy it straight away