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I need artwork inspo!

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SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 24/04/2021 11:25

What do you have on your walls?!

Pics please 🙏🙏🙏

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Tightwad2020 · 28/04/2021 16:00

'Fraid I can't supply pics, 'cause the operating system on my ancient iPhone no longer talks to the OS on my laptop. But I have also been working hard on boosting the artwork in my house and it goes like this (in descending order of feeling flush):

Original artwork (paintings, drawings) by actual professional artists - not as many of these as I would like, because, you know, money.

Limited edition prints by proper artists - these range from £40 to £180 and I would probably spend another slice on getting them framed. Framing can add £100, so I have to really like the piece.
Paintings, drawings, photos by DS (on fine art foundation year) - sometimes flash the cash for proper framing, sometimes use ready-mades from Etsy.
Posters and prints linked to events and holidays we've enjoyed, usually sourced from museum/gallery shops.
Charity/vintage shop finds. I have some pictures which I found at a recycling centre - one person's trash being another's treasure.
Postcards, pages from children's books, wallpaper samples, - usually I can frame these with readymade from Etsy, or repurpose a frame from one of my charity shop/skip diving finds.

I've got a ticket for a vintage poster fair for next month, and hoping to pick up something from there. And the art school end-of-year shows should be running again from this year.

I'd love to do more, and more quickly, but it does cost a bit, and I find it's better to collect several pieces that sort of hang together in some way - colour, medium, subject, frame - and then 'do' a wall or a section of hallway or staircase or whatever so that it feels completed. Also, I'm horribly indecisive, and it can take a long time to work out what I want.

Good luck, enjoy it!

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 29/04/2021 19:03

Thanks for the tips!

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MirandaMarple · 30/04/2021 08:02

Not enough, recently moved to a bigger house and have more space to fill.

All of my artwork is personal to me. I have pictures that belonged to my in-laws, art we have bought on our travels, there are 3 world maps in various forms, gifts from friends.

It wouldn't have occur to me to buy something new without any meaning to me. That's why most of my walls are blank I suppose!

GOODCAT · 01/05/2021 20:19

I can't do pics but I have one painting which the artist did from a photo which my Dad got for me when he was working abroad, one limited edition print which my mum gave me in an effort to help me get a picture up in my first home, lots of photos as my husband is a keen photographer though we mostly have photos taken by other people actually up, some prints that I got online and framed and a plate that my husband owned from before I met him.

Subject wise they are of animals, places and things one of us likes doing. They range from cartoons to watercolours.

I am a very slow collector as there is so much out there but I am very fussy and have to really like it and it must be meaningful and generally find that I pick what I like and then don't have quite the right place to put it. My husband is very impulsive and just goes for what he likes. Our taste does not match up!

We still have lots of bare walls. With a bigger budget it would be mostly originals commissioned by me.

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