I think when I resized the photo, it messed up the clarity. I will resize and post again later to make it more clear. It looks bad here. I apologize but hoping still, more of you will post art pieces.
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I think when I resized the photo, it messed up the clarity. I will resize and post again later to make it more clear. It looks bad here. I apologize but hoping still, more of you will post art pieces.
Beautiful Rebby, you did a fantastic job! I like the distressed look as well. I love your creative juices! Thanks for sharing!
Jrebel, it is so lovely and kind of reminds me of a Starry Night at the top and at the bottom... the artist that painted his wife's flower gardens. ( sorry I can't think of his name ) Monet.
In my area people mostly save the windows with the 12 smaller panes... I have seen them in flower shops, used as picture frames, with vines hanging around them or as room dividers.
That is one of the things I have always wanted... now you have renewed my determination to get one.
They are always set out in the garbage around here for the taking... I live in a community where the homes were built from the 1800's to the 1960's.
I would like to see one where lacy curtains were painted on the window and a cats lying stretched out on the windowsill or sitting up right waiting for someone to come home.
I have a photo that I took similar to that but it was my dog, lying on the back of the couch wistfully looking out the window...
Please post more when time permits, You know I get so excited over some things I tend to ramble...
It amazes me when people do this and with old doors also.
We even have a resue center and you can go there and get just about anything old your heart desires at a low price.
I see entire houses of windows thrown out I am talking 13 or more... It hurts me to see them going in the landfill. Some are even the old wavy glass. I have a few wavy ones on my second floor.
Starty and Bushg, thank you so much for your kind words. Sounds like maybe the two of you may have been sparked a little toward doing more art work. Please do post if you do. I love the idea of the lace curtains and kitten.
I am going to be trying reverse painting which is a bit difficult for me as I have done it on plates I have painted but not window panes. Should be a challenge!
Thanks again and good to see you on here!
Maybe you and Starty should do a little networking and both can have ample windows and paint some terrific pieces!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bushg
I'm going out this evening in the neighbor and see if anyone in the neighborhood has new windows.. :) Meaning I will be garbage picking.
What type of paint should I use... warning I may have to trace, stencil or paint a vine and some leaves... it will have to be simple. Lol my talent is limited.
Sounds like a plan!! A fun plan at that!! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bushg
There is an acrylic type paint in small bottles called "Glossies" that are specifically for glass but I have used plain craft acrylics on plates and glasses and had good results. I process them in the oven but of course, couldn't do a window. LOL I seal it with Polycrylic, two coats. They have it at Wal-mart. I like high gloss but they have it in satin and flat I think also. Can't remember for sure. I am sure oils would give a really nice finish but I don't work with oils anymore because of allergies. I also like the drying time on acrylics and I work fast so blending is not a problem with acrylics.
The main thing is, have a blast!!! ;) If you are painting on the front side, find a picture you love and tape it to the back of the glass. Perfect pattern to use!! :p Keep us posted and post image of your work. Hopefully before too long, I will lhave more. Mother is still in Nursing Home and they think she had a light stroke so CAT Scan on Friday. We are there to help her with meals daily so art work has sort of been put on back burner. But gladly so. :)
Bushg, glad you liked the idea of putting the pattern behind so you could see it. Keep me posted on your progress.
Thank you for your sweet well wishes for my mother. You are a special friend! :)
I have an old window that I just took a hundred year old quilt that was falling apart and I staple gunned each "good" square in each pane, It is my fave... I love it! Not much work but a beautiful outcome, I will post a pic of it... or email someone who can;)
Bushg is a good friend, and Jrebel, so are you. I will also keep your mother and you family in my thoughts and heart. You are a good daughter:):):)
Hey Starty! The window sounds beautiful. If you can't get it posted, e-mail it to me and I will be happy to post it for you. I will just be anxious to see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by startover22
Thank you for your good thoughts for my mother! I really appreciate it. This has been one of the most difficult times in my life, you notice I say one, you know what was the most difficult I am sure.
Don't forget to post or send to me, I am so anxious to view it. :p
Start what a good idea... a way to save two old pieces.
I have a very old home interior picture that looks like a window and it has different scenes in it, country ones. If I can find one on eBay I will post it. I want to hang it in my kitchen to look at while I have breakfeast... because I do not have a good view of the outside... if my carpetner husband ever gets the kitchen completed.
When he sells this last house that he is working on... I may celebrate and get a digital camera... so I can post.
I would love to go to an old part of down town and take some pictures of somw walls under a train trestle where some artist went and did a mural of different types of ocean creatures with glass beads and brokens glass and grouted them... Whats that called... oh yeah mosaic. Very beautiful... these are free standing walls not sure what they were intended for but it is close to the industrial part that has turned into swanky office spaces.
I found a picture of one of the murals... but not the fish, this doesn't give justice, to the beauty of it.Art motivates teens
Also check out some of our flying pigs there are about 3 pages of them about 1/2 way down the page starts the flying ones and it goes on for about 3 pages... Our Favorite Links and/or the place to report Flying Pig Sightings! and CNN.com - arts & style- Pigs hog limelight as Cincinnati street art - May 10, 2000
I loved the links! They were great. I found it interesting because in our town, they have huge guitars where individual artists have painted them and they are on street corners, parks, etc. In the town where my daughter lives, they have painted huge Penquins. So it was really fun seeing the pigs. Thanks for posting that. I loved it.Quote:
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Our local library, once a year has an auction of wooden chairs that have been painted by local artists. I always think I am going to do that then I get side-tracked. They are beautiful. Some so fanciful, some tell stories, some look like Alice in Wonderland characters, some just wild and whimsically designed. Just gorgeous.
My daughter would love the penguins. I would like to see them all. The guitars remind me of how country folk paint scenes on old saws, blades and shovels. Maybe you can do one of those chairs just for yourself and post it on here... are they children's chairs or regular table chairs?
Glad you liked the pigs, in a burb of cincy they have huge painted vases with flowers planted in them... very swanky town... with a square and shops everywhere, very nice place to visit.
Another village has painted squirrels with different park scenes, I found those when I was looking for the pigs... so I will be going to look at those. Also ky is not too far and they have painted horses... I believe life size.
We have a really bad side of town kind of run down and a group of artist have taken over an abandoned police sub station and turned it into a artist café... The Speckeled Bird Café... My daughter and I plan on having lunch there this summer... how cute, can't wait.
They have also taken part of a huge and very old Catholic church and turned it into an art gallery... I can't wait to visit it. Benches in the court yard and flowers, children running and playing the neighborhood is going up. It is so amazing that there is a lot of druggies and fighting and such but they never bother that place... I think maybe they see it as a sign of hope and inspiration.
I think art and gardening is so important for a community and sadly those are the first things to go in a crunch. Plus the art will someday be used to tell the history of the neighborhood. I ramble so I will shut up... :D
Bg, the chairs are regular size wooden chairs, all shapes, styles, etc. but older styles mostly. You can get them at stores around as new chairs but the ones I would be interested in are the old ones but then if they were that old, I would want to just refinish them and not paint them.. Go figure! LOL
I would love to have an art area in our town. We have an Artist Guild but it is kind of "old school". I am not much of a joiner but would love to organize a café, of course, we would have to call Starty in on it for the baking!! LOL I am not a kitchen person at all. Ride my cycle, do my art, play with grandbabies and the kitchen is there when I have to use it but I adore people who love to cook or bake or sew. You have heard my saying by now I am sure, "If you can glue it, I can do it!" but if it is thread, forget it! I enjoy decorating cakes for special occasions however or making candy or cookies. Have you seen the little hamburger looking cookies made from vanilla wafers?? If not and I can find a photo, I will post here. I use a mint for the meat, coconut colored green for the lettuce, etc. Fun.
The 'Speckled Bird Cafe' sounds like a neat place to go. Maybe I can someday! Hope so.
Bed is calling me. It is 1:33 a.m. and I am usually up later than this but am tired tonight so goodnight to all!! "SWEET DREAMS"!
Have you seen the little hamburger looking cookies made from vanilla wafers?? If not and I can find a photo, I will post here. I use a mint for the meat, coconut colored green for the lettuce, etc. Fun.
No but I want to see them and eat them.:p
My daughter and I was making cup cakes late one night for her softball bake sale... We only had white icing and no food coloring... so I came up with an idea to use a little orange, green, and red Kool Aid for the icing that we were using to make flowers, leaves, basket weave etc... She is in high school and the kids loved it, requested more for the next day... they were sweet and sour cupcakes... But I'm not the greastes baker... I never seem to have all the ingredients on hand.
Yet I can sew a little I made all of my curtains, pillows and bench seat covers as well as the coverings for my out door furniture. Sewing a straight line is not to hard.
You guys are chatty!
I loved the flying pigs too. And theteen art, WOW!
Penguins Jrebel? Cool, we had Ducks painted all sorts of ways because we are home of the Ducks! That is our mascot for the college here! Ohh your little chats give out so much great info and creativity! I just love it all!
Nice work Jan.. beautiful!
I wish I had a window to do some painting too:).
G,
This one is for you.
No Bake Deluxe Hamburger Cookies - Allrecipes
Ohhhh, is that what she was talking about?
I just know the kids would love those! (me to:))
Thanks firm... I will see if my daughter will make me some... she and her grandmother get together and bake all of the time. Their quite artsy in that department.
When we work together we butt heads... can't have 2 bosses in one kitchen... She made me let her be in charge of her bake sale cookies and it broke my heart... she would only let me decorate a few because she said I wuold labor to long and we would still be there come morning. Oh, another good memory..
Ohhh bushg... too funny. I like being the only one in my kitchen too, but we normally have plenty to do to make sure everyone feels like they have a desire job! Hugs to you!
Have I told you guys about the graffiti boards on my way to work? I drive by every day on my way and take a look.Oregon Daily Emerald - 24 hour University of Oregon news and sports
I see a different sight every time I go past and yesterday there was in the corner on the right upper hand corner a woman's face, so real looking and beautiful.
Start what a good idea... our city needs something like that.
I just was thinking to myself, I should really take the time to get out of my car and take some pics and look around! It is in a part of town where its kind of wishy washy, but I feel as safe there as I do in my own home now a days! I work down there, so some of the people I know who draw or "spray" down there!;) Very cool souls some of them!
Starty, here you go... I hope I sized these like you would have wanted them to be. I just love these.
Hey all, I have a couple of beautiful "STARTY CREATIONS" to share with you!
Starty, I am posting the originals but did crop out part of the door. I am also posting the first one twice, the first is the original and the second one of that one is where I tried to remove the glare but was concerned I might have compromised the piece so wanted the original here for sure!
Awww gosh, you are really good at posting these... I wouldn't even have thought about it! THANK YOU!
My pleasure!! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by startover22
Start/jrebel that is absolutely beautiful. I know how tiny those stiches are, you can even tell on the computer. I love the natural/old look of the window, it brings out the orange, yellow, creams of the quilt it also lends to the age of the quilt.
I like the glare to me it signifies homeiness... you can see the hanging light and what appears to be a window... I'm sure this reflection is seen everyday by someone in your home... it goes well, very fitting. To me it says I live here.
It would be just as pretty painted white... then it would look like a mosaic. The whiteness of the doors on each sides make me believe this.
Very beautiful thanks for posting it... I know I am finding me a window...
You know bushg, you could use the panes and hang a pic from the top of each pane... a old window some pictures and a few tacks would do the trick, I plan on doing this for my Mother in law for Christmas this year... :)
And thank you, it is homey here...
I saw an old french door used for different photos of someone's family... not sure how they got it to stand... I know they had a window like yours suspended not too far from it by chains. It was in a really outdoorsy, earthy living room.
You know start that is a good idea... I could change them depending upon on the season... I wanted to buy a picture clock that you changed out the picture depending on the season but was to expensive... actually I have a huge spot on each side of my fire place that has deer heads on each side and I think hubby has grown tired of them so I am thinking that those frames would be a perfect spot for the deer. My Dears, deer can go to the hall... haha
You all better hope I don't get a digital camera... I will go posting crazy... but mostly old stuff that I did over the years... I can't wait to post my bird house's that I painted... but I'm more of a dabbler.
I tried to give you rep...Quote:
Originally Posted by bushg
I am laughing so hard right now. Ohhh goodness, I sure needed that! Get that darn camera girly! I can't wait till you go crazy with it!:D
Grab the camera grab the camera!
Need to see more art :) can't wait to see your art
Those window quilt things are really cool by the way start, good to see you recycling an old piece for a new piece :) looks great
I've just been insulted by little-miss-sunshine! :S
How are all you crazy kids?
Hey JRebel, the painting in your window reminds me so much of my mother's style of painting. Awesome work! We don't get much of that kind of craftiwork over here, maybe you've started something of a trend... I'm quite inspired! How do you hang them? They must be quite heavy.
I am tickled that you enjoyed seeing the window!! Makes me anxious to do more. I have two in the process. WOW! Trendsetter!! I love it. You are so kind!Quote:
Originally Posted by Moparbyfar
The windows are quite heavy. There are several options when hanging them. I will be displaying these at an art show in the fall, using eyelets or eyehooks, not sure what they are called, they have a closed circle with a part of it that screws into the wood and has a hinge between the circle and the screw part so they circle part lays sort of flat against the back of the window. With heavier windows, I would use a small chain available at a local hardware store but with lighter weight ones, would just get heavy gauge wire from local craft store, place each end through the circle and then wind it several times toward the center so it doesn't slip. We built a display using lattice work, hinged to fold forward and so I need a one point hanging point. I use "S" shaped hooks but were made from a form to fit over the lattice work since it is a little thick.
I really am getting excited about the windows. I have worked in pencils for so long, and love them and feel they are my forte but this will be a nice change and then return to the pencils. If you do a window, please post so we can all enjoy it!! :p I am delighted always to see your post. Hoping you will post more work soon! It inspires everyone!
EDIT: I edited the description of the hardware that screws into the wood, it has a hinge.
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Originally Posted by bushg
Bg, you are quite inventive using Kool Aid for the icing color. Firmy posted a terrific link but since we had visited about the cookies and I finally found my photo of the ones I made, thought I would post it. They differ a little from the link from Firmy but her link brought up some great ideas I had not thought of for pickles, etc. I used the following:
Vanilla Wafers - as the bun
Sesame Seeds - moisten the top of Vanilla wafer cookie and sprinkle seeds on top
Chocolate Mint Cookie (thin)
Coconut - with green food coloring for the lettuce
I just mixed up the icing I use when I decorate cakes and colored part of it red for the ketchup and yellow for the mustard and or cheese (cheese burger!)
I went a little overboard with the sesame seeds but I am sure I had 7 other projects going at the time and hurried too much. The sliced gum drops for pickles that firmy's link suggested was just terrific. Thanks Firmy! You are a top researcher and much appreciated!
They look delicious... I'm going to see if we can do them with pudding.
I am plugging my new thread... stop by... I made it so that we could leave this thread for the artist of AMHD.
On the new one we could post other art/ artist that we want to show... I kind of felt guilty about posting so much non members art the other night... I do tend to ramble when I get excited... :)
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Bg, the main reason for posting the art besides sharing what we do as artists is to inspire and help people to view life "out the box" at times. Whether you share art pieces you have done or posted links of other's art, to me you are still inspiring others. Just being a good researcher and finding these wonderful links is an art, in and of itself. Not all people are able to find such fun links to share.Quote:
Originally Posted by bushg
I visited your new thread and enjoyed it very much. But I have enjoyed everyone's posts on this one also. Please don't feel guilty for sharing with us. I always enjoy your posts! :p
Jrebel, agreed. I get inspired and my feelings come right out of my heart when I finish something or see someone else finish a project! I love it all, whether it is my style or not, I can feel it running through me, the work, the style of each of you, the passion, the "keeping busy"... I love it all! Hugs to all of you artistsssssssss
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