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Permies Poll: Do you keep art in your home?

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I personally love oil paintings that have texture to them. The ones where you look closely and see the globs of paint that just enhance whatever the painting is. I wonder if other people appreciate art as well and have it in their home.



Now is my big ask. Please consider sharing pictures of the art you have at home!

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Cross posted from The (Un)Official Permies Dog Picture Thread

Oil painting of plott hound holding egg in its mouth with several chickens and eggs around.

This is a painting commissioned by my mother-in-law for my wife's bridal shower of our 7 year old Plott Hound and our chickens.

It hangs above our dressers in our bedroom and I smile ever time I take it in.

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We do. We have several pieces that we picked up, in our travels, as well as a few that have been gifted to us, by the artists. Unfortunately, only about half are currently framed and hanging, though I'm working on it.

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I am glad to see that, so far at least, nobody has said they don't have art!

My day job for 30ish years was custom framing and I had my own shop for the last decade of that. We sold antiques and vintage as well as custom work and my own creations. Auctions, thrifting, yard sales, wholesale buys, direct from artists and making my own stuff means we have hundreds of pieces of art. ( I'm including  the unframed to get that high) I love art and believe everyone can get a bit more joy out of life with some art around.
It doesn't have to be expensive either. Got a quilt you like but don't use? Just sew a tube of fabric on one side or some tabs and hang it up! Put it on an outside wall and you've even got a bit of extra insulation. Thrift store frames may have some chips or ugly finishes but a bit of semi gloss black paint and they look way better. Print off your fave pictures and put them up. Much better than them just being on your phone or computer. If you love it, it deserves to be on your wall, even if it's just a poster you found at the dump.

I find a bare wall looks unfinished to me and I have been working through decorating our new house. Considering how much we have and like, I've been doing quite a lot of gallery walls.
This is one I did at our old place.


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Yes we do, of various types.

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I have done a rubbing of that woman near the center- I think at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.
 
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Timothy Norton wrote:I personally love oil paintings that have texture to them. The ones where you look closely and see the globs of paint that just enhance whatever the painting is. I wonder if other people appreciate art as well and have it in their home.

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Now is my big ask. Please consider sharing pictures of the art you have at home!


These are a few pieces of art that I have done, they do hang on my walls, I love walls with lots of art.
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Mixed media using paper scraps
Mixed media using paper scraps
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Oil painting of my great grandmother
Oil painting of my great grandmother
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Mixed media
Mixed media
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Mixed media
Mixed media
 
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I make this sort of stuff, oil on canvas
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My wife quilts. Over the years, she has become quite good, I think... She created an applique design for the cat from a photo then put it all together and quilted it. The horse started as a blank white piece of fabric which she painted and then did more thread painting on top. The larger quilt includes some intersting over/under 3D imagery with the 'ribbons' of thread. She rotates through hanging these and many others on our walls.

We also have some other paintings and sculptures done by our friends which are boxed up until we finish our new home.
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Original Applique based on photo
Original Applique based on photo
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Neighbors Horse, center panel original painting enhanced with quilting
Neighbors Horse, center panel original painting enhanced with quilting
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M Rives wrote:My wife quilts. Over the years, she has become quite good, I think... She created an applique design for the cat from a photo then put it all together and quilted it. The horse started as a blank white piece of fabric which she painted and then did more thread painting on top. The larger quilt includes some intersting over/under 3D imagery with the 'ribbons' of thread. She rotates through hanging these and many others on our walls.

We also have some other paintings and sculptures done by our friends which are boxed up until we finish our new home.




WOW! I'm so glad you posted that close up. I thought she'd just painted on some cloth and appliqued it on there. But, no, what she did is frankly amazing. WOW!

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A quick survey of some of our art…
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fungi under a wash of tea or coffee -- seems more charming on my office wall that in this pic
fungi under a wash of tea or coffee -- seems more charming on my office wall that in this pic
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a little cross-stitch my daughter gave me of our new bucolic life in the country
a little cross-stitch my daughter gave me of our new bucolic life in the country
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daughter's painting from a photo of my granddaughter hanging on my leg
daughter's painting from a photo of my granddaughter hanging on my leg
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experimental print
experimental print
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stoneware wall sculptures
stoneware wall sculptures
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reproductive anxiety
reproductive anxiety
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My wife collects owls
My wife collects owls
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copper cherry blossoms
copper cherry blossoms
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I traded ceramic art for this print when I was in college
I traded ceramic art for this print when I was in college
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Even little weird things are art!
Even little weird things are art!
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mostly mosaics
mostly mosaics
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a year in the fairy tale forest
a year in the fairy tale forest
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small vessels
small vessels
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a pelvis?
a pelvis?
 
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M Rives wrote:My wife quilts. Over the years, she has become quite good, I think... She created an applique design for the cat from a photo then put it all together and quilted it. The horse started as a blank white piece of fabric which she painted and then did more thread painting on top. The larger quilt includes some intersting over/under 3D imagery with the 'ribbons' of thread. She rotates through hanging these and many others on our walls.

We also have some other paintings and sculptures done by our friends which are boxed up until we finish our new home.


Your wife is truly gifted!
She has made such beautiful art it really drew me in looking at every detail.
I can only imagine the joy she must’ve felt through the process and when she finished!
 
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It has taken years, but we have an eclectic selection.
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Anybody ask Art how he feels about it......or his wife                                      dad jokes are a disease
 
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I love having art around me, though until this year my house was so small that there wasn't much wall space to put said art. But, we remodeled our garage into a family room, and now I have more wall space!

I initially put up this shelf to store eggs (since this shelf is right by our back door that leads to the duck house), but it quickly got filled with my pretty books and wattle and daub round house. My kids then called it the Wizard Shelf. So, of course, I had to hang the Wizzard R Ranson painted for me (check out her awesome paintings) and the wooden wizard my husband made me (years ago, he worked a wood shop and spotted a "wizard" in the grain of the wood and made the frame for it out of scraps).  Since I ended up storing my prettier/medieval-esk board games on the shelf, I put the dice bags I knitted &/or felted up there, too. I need to think of some way to beautify the electrical panel. But, I'm pretty happy with it for now!

Wizard shelf with pretty books, dice/marble bags I made, a medieval house, and wizard art

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I build inventory all winter long  ( I love winter for this reason) and my Stove sure helps.

So while it looks odd, our walls become the display area, but by the end of summer are pretty bare, to start a fresh again in the winter. While in the back of the house we have a bought or bartered for a few pieces, the other 99% I make.  Using alcohol inks, acrylics, some epoxy work, Poly aspartic coatings,  for very vivid colors.  All on metal.  It has been great fun for the last 20 years.

Some are large, I will try to post sizes with photos and add to these as I get time.
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40" long
40" long
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some where in here is a cat with a tail on fire 20" long
some where in here is a cat with a tail on fire 20" long
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Everyone has to dance sometime 16" long
Everyone has to dance sometime 16" long
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Yes, I do have Art. I have paitnings/drawings I made myself, but also Art made by other (not well-known) Artists. The plan is to have an Art Wall ... but it is not yet there and all Art is now standing on the floor. If I don't forget I'll make a photo and share it here when it's ready.

Here is a photo of a watercolour I made

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Scott Weinberg wrote:.

  Using alcohol inks, acrylics, some epoxy work, Poly aspartic coatings,  for very vivid colors.  All on metal.  It has been great fun for the last 20 years.
A few more.

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It's mostly religious art in my house, and several framed photographs from around the time of the Great Depression in the States, and I think most (maybe all) of them are in the area of the Dust Bowl. Hard to be sure. But my computer room has a bunch of framed 8x10s of old classic films - for the press, or lobby cards, etc.

(edit: oh yeah, and behind the couch in my computer room is a big tapestry of Yoshitaka Amano art from Final Fantasy 6, lol)

My living room has a framed print of Morgan Weistling's "Sharing the Light," which has a vibe I think a lot of homesteader types might appreciate:

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