Artist Kitteh

sleeps on nose after long day of being creative...

Have a nice Saturday.  I'll be out picking mushrooms...

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Finding Treasures

I'm been shopping for a new picture for our small bathroom that was just repainted.  In the past, two framed sets of stamps were in there.  Stamps are so beautiful and I had quite a big collection.  I stuck some on black fabric and threw them in a frame, but I was ready for something different.

While doing a rapid de-junking of my husbands office closet (that's a whole post by itself), I came across a large envelope of  art work my husband had done when he was a teenager. Some of it was assignments from a correspondence course he took. Not only is my husband a master musician, but a wonderful artist.

Two of his assignments:

This one he did in the Minneapolis Main Library:

The first two prints fit perfectly in the old frames. Voila!  New pictures. Cost?  Zero...

He did these fun fashion sketches, too. 

Great Art

Timothy Jones
American Realist

I don't remember anymore how I came to stumble upon this wonderful artist but I'm certainly glad I did. Surrounding ourselves with beautiful images and learning to appreciate fine art is all a part of living a beautiful life.

I'm sure you've heard that old adage, "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." But when it comes to music and art that is not true. While the beholder may think something is beautiful, it doesn't make it beautiful in the objective sense of the word. Beauty has objective standards and we must train our minds to recognize true beauty whenever it is encountered.

Just so you don't think I'm some kind of arty snob, I have my fair share of Big Lot prints. For $10.00 you can get a really fun large and well framed image that will brighten a corner of your house (or in my case the bathroom where I don't want to put my fine art).

Tim has some wonderful art at super reasonable prices. It's nice to invest in something you really, really love and there is nothing like fine art to make your home look special.

As always - click on picture to make it really, really big...


The above painting by Tim named Nymph Lake, is one of my favorites. You can visit Tim at his Etsy store or drop in on his blog, Old World Swine. Tim is also gracious enough to show us some his methods at the Daily Painting Blog.