Lake Princess by Gary Hong

I bought this colorful swan print at the Yorba Linda Celebration of Arts, a local art and craft show, many moons ago, from the artist. Gary Hong paints beautiful scenes of animals and landscapes in Southern California.

I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to highlight the green or the pink in the painting, so I bought a white frame and tried to match the technique with similar colors. Whether it blends or not, I like it!

Do What You Love!

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Cat Woman by Margo Zafer Nahas

I have a dream that a piece of artwork I’ve picked up at a yard sale or antique store will turn out to be worth millions. Or at least thousands… This is one of the pieces I fantasize over.

 

It’s number 16 of 100 signed prints of Cat Woman by Margo Zafer Nahas, the award winning illustrator of Van Halen’s album cover of “1984”~you know the one~the smoking angel!

The other thing that makes this piece unique is the fact that it’s mounted on a cabinet door. I don’t remember where I got it--I’m sure it was a yard sale--but the combination of the cat theme and the cabinet door was too cool to pass up. I didn’t realize who the artist was until I did some research when I got home.

Isn’t this awesome!!

It’s dated 1972, it’s 16 out of only 100 and it’s on a cabinet door. Please tell me it’s worth a mill!! A thou??

 

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Blogging for Serial

So, Life and The Day Job have intruded on creativity lately. When I get home, I just don’t seem to have the mental energy to think up a whole blog. So sad!

But I’ve decided what I can do is write a series of bite size serial blogs about things that interest me right now. Or things that might interest you. A picture and a few words. Yeah, I can do that!

For my first series, Art Around My House:

This is a fine art print of Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler (the full version). If I’m not mistaken, the original of this extremely popular painting sold at auction for over a million dollars a few years ago, shocking snotty art critics who didn’t believe that popular would translate to big bucks, especially when the artist is still alive. So there, snotty art critics!!

Vettriano is a Scottish artist whose work is sometimes thuggish but always tells an interesting, usually noir-ish, story. This print, Back Where You Belong, hangs over our bed. I love the colors and warm emotion of this piece.

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