A client was talking to me about the kinds of things she likes to decorate with, including iron and little traditionally shaped
chachkas, but she wanted wall art. My Mom loves that kind of thing, too, including fleur de lis. So, I thought it would be nice to fill the need with simple
hand painted canvases, so here are a couple that I designed. I think people love being able to purchase something that was actually hand painted, even if the theme is not necessarily original or the subject may be an open edition.
5" x 5" canvases travel light, and thrown into simple frames, they dress up well and make great accessories for a powder room or small space. Let me know what you think.
On watching football (can I say that?):We didn't watch the "Big Game"...You know, once the football commission (they don't deserve proper punctuation) or whoever became that uptight about money, I decided that if no one could say super and bowl together, I wasn't going to watch it either. I hate greed.
We went to the museum instead. The High Museum in Atlanta is currently showing
China's First Emperor's Terra Cotta Army, and
"Bonjour Ya'll!" -- some great works from the
Louvre. It happened to be a perfect 65 degrees. What a great day to walk downtown! We have season passes and saw the terra cotta army last week, so on this trip, we walked through the Louvre exhibit! It took an interesting twist because it talked about what makes a Masterpiece, and how some art had been revisited and were now
re-considered Masterpieces! It also talked at length about how to detect a forgery, and has neat little stations where you can observe on a computer the way an art expert would.
We walked through the contemporary exhibition, too, which has lots of great stuff. I don't know if you realize this, but a lot of art shows up in museums simply because it has been gifted to the museum. With that in mind, there were a number of pieces that I saw in the contemporary exhibit that left me wondering why contemporary art doesn't seem to have the same kind of art experts considering it. Forgive me (as an artist) for being so bold as to exclaim the one simple question that kept popping into my head over and over through this exhibit, (but particularly as I was viewing the 4 shaped canvases which either were not painted at all or had one solid color on them):
"Who did he know?"
Who do you have to know?
These pieces are available in my Etsy store, and like most things, they don't scan well...but they look really cool in person, and they come matted for a 5x7 frame!
Mom and Me in New Orleans! Cute, I know.
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