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When I was very young my mother framed the covers to a few magazines and put them on my bedroom wall. One of those covers was of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Later I purchased a poster that had been wrapped around wood like a proper painting. I remember it being just on the verge of psychedelia. Bold colours, but not as busy as other oferings during the seventies. Eventually, I mostly had my own paintings on the wall.
What sort of art do you put on the walls of your living space? This can be anything from plates to stickers to an original van Gogh (anyone have one of those? could I sell you a bridge in Milwaukee?).
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to Muse • • •We still have lots of walls to adorn.
In our living room the walls have two Jane Geyer watercolors of Yosemite.
We have a mandolin and guitar on the wall.
A Polish tapestry.
Some Batiques of old testament figures as well as some ceramic figures of Queen Esther and Saint Philomena.
An Alvar lithograph (image below) that was part of a series on the practical arts, we got the Architecture one. (We've got some architectural renderings of the Port Washington courthouse in other rooms.)
Right now I am sitting under an image of Troy as seen from the sea with the Greek camps before the city.
My office has a big Blazing Saddles poster and a smaller one for Return To The Forbidden Planet.
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DeanC
in reply to Muse • • •Cascadia graces the cover of the 2015 Esri Map Book
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Muse • • •My walls are covered with vintage art deco prints and magazine covers, silk 1940's tropical bird paintings, and beautifully-done vintage Paint-by-Number scenes (a canal in Venice, a lighthouse, gardens and cottages...) I also have some dimensional blow-molded classy 50's moderne wall art and a number of art pottery wall pockets. Lastly are some 1950's atomic-style mirrored wall shelves which hold art pottery miniatures. Basically, I hate my "builder's white" apartment walls, so the walls are covered with stuff I love.
No van Gogh, but I did, for a while, have an Andy Warhol silkscreen print of the "Lincoln Center Ticket." Sadly, it had to be sold.
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to Muse • • •The living room has some paintings, mostly western US scenes. A number of ceramic, fabric, stone, metal, and wood wall pieces. A couple of cases of wood, glass, ceramic and metal sculptures.
The family room has a bunch of Ikki Matsumotosilkscreen prints and posters and more wood art.
Upstairs more mixed media stuff, collage, fabric, glass, ceramic and wood. Some prints and posters.
The kitchen has ceramic and metal wall pieces and some prints and small sculptures.
I am running short of wall space. Newer pieces tend to be smaller and more carefully chosen.
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Joyce Donahue
in reply to Muse • • •Oh, I forgot the family photo wall in the dining room.
And yes, I am running out of wall space too. 😀
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in reply to Muse • • •We have always liked art, our connecting hall that runs the center of the condo has 3 framed pieces of my wife's two are posters from Seattle Opera productions, one is hand painted Chinese symbol associated with her birthday (the artistic rendering of her birth animal sign).
We have a number of small pictures in the various rooms, mostly gathered fantasy art from our ' patron' days of Vericon where I'd be sure to put a bid on all the prints and originals at the suggested art bid start and if no one else bid the entire convention we'd walk away with some neat amateur art creations.
Our bedroom contains 3 framed paintings we got given to us by a dear friend upon his death, one of which my wife was a model for back in the day, painted by the late artist Jael.
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in reply to Muse • • •In HS I was at a friends and I laid out a grid on my friends wall and drew this on the wall.
I do not remember the dimensions but it was over 5 feet tall, I wish I had a photograph
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Lisa Stranger
in reply to Muse • • •Putting art on walls is not something I have been successful at 🫤
We had acres of wall at the old house (only exaggerating slightly) and I only ever managed to hang very little. Some of that didn't come with us when we moved, and of course that thing is mourned by Mr. Stranger 🤦♀️ I guess I shouldn't say anything, I'm out of sorts about some art I left as well—still-life on paper (possibly hand-made), pencil or chalk I guess?, unframed, picked up for $5 at a yard sale. Artist was still living at the time (not sure about now, don't remember her name) and did have a market. Took it for a framing estimate—$1,000?! Was overwhelmed during the move and left it for somebody else to rescue (we sold to a flipper).
Hopefully somewhere we still have a couple of Reuben Kramer sketches. They would then need to be... framed 😭😭😭
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Mark Wollschlager
in reply to Muse • • •My rain gauge had stopped recording and I suspected it was clogged with tree seeds and junk.
Dragged the ladder over and got an extendable pruning stick to pull the gauge, mounted on a piece of wood, over to the edge. Sure enough it was full of water. I cleaned it out and replaced the batteries and noticed tree junk buildup so I cleaned most of that off. Then I noticed little trees coming out of the short gutters from the second story. Moved the ladder over , which I should have done the first time, to a place I had better view. Climbed up on the roof and mucked out the little gutters. They had screens, but with big enough holes to let stuff through. I remembered I had some left over pieces of better gutter screen so removed the old ones and got the new pieces. They were very close to perfect, had to trim up a little to get better coverage. All better. The rain gauge measures again, which is nice because we have had multiple rain days with many inches over the last few weeks.
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My rain gauge had stopped recording and I suspected it was clogged with tree seeds and junk.
Dragged the ladder over and got an extendable pruning stick to pull the gauge, mounted on a piece of wood, over to the edge. Sure enough it was full of water. I cleaned it out and replaced the batteries and noticed tree junk buildup so I cleaned most of that off. Then I noticed little trees coming out of the short gutters from the second story. Moved the ladder over , which I should have done the first time, to a place I had better view. Climbed up on the roof and mucked out the little gutters. They had screens, but with big enough holes to let stuff through. I remembered I had some left over pieces of better gutter screen so removed the old ones and got the new pieces. They were very close to perfect, had to trim up a little to get better coverage. All better. The rain gauge measures again, which is nice because we have had multiple rain days with many inches over the last few weeks.
Also glad to have the "surgeon hand brushes" to clean up after bare hand mucking out the gutter. That stuff is gross. Should have to do that again for a couple of years. Used a couple of hours off the clock, so Yay!
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DeanC
in reply to Muse • • •I am paralyzed by the fact that every project needs a project to prepare for the project, but that project needs a project... it's projects all the way down.
At least I got my asparagus planted.
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in reply to Muse • • •also some Johfra zodiac posters I've had more like 45 years
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in reply to Muse • • •Upon re-reading the OP I do have some tchotchkes (post-enpoopification spellcheck fail) sitting on shelves and other horizontal surfaces.
My favorites are, in decreasing order of importance: Everything my kid made, a "Duff Beer" novelty can from "The Simpsons", and this weirdo that was gifted to me:
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