In other news and a lot more fun.
I got my new print through the post.

www.art.co.uk/products/p12549859-sa-i1917156/norman-rockwell-tattoo-artist.htm?sorig=cat&sorigid=0&dimvals=5000032&ui=2979dd9f3ced4cbaa21039fbd26167ca

It's even better up close and will look great when I've framed it.

What stuff do you have on your walls?
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:38, 64 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Why have you got gay porn on your walls?

(PsychoChomp, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:39, Reply)

Haha!
I would do if my nephew wasn't always visiting.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Paint mainly, also some stains

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:41, Reply)

I have Psychology and chemistry mindmaps I made
a bunch of paintings and photos I did in my spare time, maps.

Edit: and I also have a mirror.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:43, Reply)

I should do my own stuff but I can't get my head round it.
Maybe when I retire I'll finally start again.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I just do it to relax mainly.
I love painting and drawing, I do that many I usually end up giving half them away.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:47, Reply)

Bring some photos of your work when you come over for me to look at.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:48, Reply)

aha they're usually all in the same vein, but I can do that, definitely.
If you've got supplies, I'll happily do one for you when I come over.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 27 May 2010, 10:50, Reply)

An out-of-date calendar from the Royal Meterological Society
and a spider.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I have a cool print
of Times Square above my fireplace, 2 pictures of me and mum in my living room, a cheesy painting of a bowl of fruit in my kitchen and in my bedroom in a shadow box I have a preserved tilapia (type of fish)
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:44, Reply)

Strange that you mention Tilapia today
Considering I jsut read about them on the Guardian website. A user commented that a couple were introduced to a golf course or something in Australia to reduce mosquitos. Within a year the staff pulled out a number of tonnes of the blighter. Meant to be a right pest.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)

They reproduce like fuck,
but they're really good eating. It's a kind of whitefish, and is mainly used as the fish in 'fish & chips' here
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:57, Reply)

The article was actually about British fish and chips
and how Cod (our traditional choice) is close to extinction and what the alternatives will be.

We've apparently over-fished and destroyed 90% of the stock of fish, and soon the traditional British chippy will be serving catfish from the Mekong.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

Thanks for the warning.
I'd rather not be part of the life cycle of the Chinese liver fluke.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:45, Reply)

Goes nice
with 'saut n sauce'
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:58, Reply)

Paint
and a few really boring generic mass produced printed canvases with orchids on. My wife through out my Giger print that I have spent a fortune on because "Its was ugly"
( Peej, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:51, Reply)

You should have packed it away until you eventually divorce her.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:52, Reply)

I'm not divorcing her
I'd be giving her what she wants
( Peej, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:06, Reply)

Giger as in H.R?

(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Yes
She just didn't get it
( Peej, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:05, Reply)

No - SHE WENT OF HER OWN ACCORD!

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:00, Reply)

Paintings and maps.
I have a cavalry charge emerging from the wall of the living room, bought in 1982 in Torquay. A smaller one in the bedroom. I even have a murial that I painted myself on my wardrobe doors. Its crap, but I did it, so it stays. The subject is a winter's night at Swinside stone circle.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 27 May 2010, 10:54, Reply)

In my study and bedroomI have NIN album art posters framed (one signed by the band)
In my hallway and living room I have black and white photographs (poster sized) of landscapes/waterfalls.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:01, Reply)

I like vinatge prints from the art deco period, so I have these in my kitchen


( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:09, Reply)

Oooo! they're nice.
I like vintage stuff too. I might get some for the attic rooms.
( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:11, Reply)

The top one is by Roger Broders
an artist that did a lot of travel posters in the 1930's. I love his style.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:14, Reply)

I may sound like a complete idiot here
but that reminds me of an old French art poster, think it was for a play. Anyway it was a fellow in a big black French gown, black beret, and red cravat. Can't remember for the life of me the artist but I loved that poster.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:05, Reply)

I just bought new frames
for the new place I'm moving into. I've got a framed Metropolis print for my sister and going to be framing the Polish "Where Eagles Dare" poster that I got from ebay.

Currently deciding which films I'm going to have in my trio of posters.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:17, Reply)

I'm also waiting for my photo of Jeff Bridges to come through the post : p

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:19, Reply)

I have two prints of paintings my friend sent me from Canada
One is a hummingbird drinking from a martini glass, the other is a peacock looking in a handmirror.
(Mrs Ballunatic counting calories, not votes., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:20, Reply)

At college
I have a big canvas A2 version of a Banksy (the one with Dorothy getting her basket searched., And a A4 print I find quite beautiful , quite an abstract picture of two people together.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:20, Reply)

How v.student of you - my daughter has that Banksy print. As have several of her friends.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:30, Reply)

I like it
At home I have a picture of three fisherman dragging a boat into shore. Not my usual sort of picture at all (I like quite abstract stuff or very classic pictures) but it's a really good picture, also one or two film posters and an abstract picture that's about A3. Not much matches, I just pick what I like
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:35, Reply)

That's often the way with me .
I'd say I was a straightforward representative art man. But among our pics are several outright weird abstracts. 'Man with Saxophone' is just discernibly that, but you can't help wondering what drugs the clearly sight-impaired artist was on. It's brilliant!
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:41, Reply)

So a Rockwell fan too? I've always liked his studies of a fantasy America.
- but then I like O.Henry stories. I went looking for the Rockwell museum in Vermont once. Merkin maps are such utter shite by the time I had found the place there was no time to go in. Merkin maps are either expensive, or free but issued by people/businesses with their own agendas. So one town's chamber of commerce will issue tourist maps vastly over stating that town's size and proximity to transport links - often changing scale within the same sheet. So the 10 mile drive you start on ends up taking several light years. (Some facts herein exaggerated and entirely fictitious by way of example.)
EOR.

Very little on our walls. Several boxes of pictures waiting to go up if we can ever agree where they would look best.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:28, Reply)

Photographs from my travels in black frames and white mounts on the stairs wall.
A big (about 5ft) painting I bought cheap at an A-level art exhibition and spent a fortune framing - it's of a house by the lough near where my parents live but it's done in mad colours - all reds and dark blues and blacks.

A couple of paintings by my first boyfriend who now sells his work for a grand apiece, although I still think they'd be worth more if he was dead.

An intricate pattern painting of pelicans that Catface brought back from Tanzania. It's canvas nailed onto a block frame and all the nails stick out and look pretty cool.

A framed propaganda remix poster saying "BOOKS CAUSE DANGEROUS THOUGHTS"

An XKCD print signed by Randall Munroe.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:30, Reply)

I'm jealous of the last one

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:32, Reply)

You can buy 'em in the XKCD store.
I didn't have to hunt him down or anything.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:33, Reply)

Eh, effort.
Plus I think I've run out of room on my walls.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:37, Reply)

I really like the Books cause Dangerous thoughts one
might get that
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:36, Reply)

I love it, I have it beside my wall of books in the living room.

( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:40, Reply)

Aw, Thought it would be a Fahrenheit 451 poster.
It's good though.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Lots!
Living room: 3 generic vetterianos, a victorian watercolour of sunset over one of the Lakes in Cumbria, an oval edwardian rosewood framed mirror and a Raphaels angels.
Dining Room: A painting my mate did for my 50th based on my tattoo, two kitsch 50's wall plaques, A Lapp spirit drum, various framed birthday and post cards, an original pen drawing of Hungry Horace by Bill Holroyd, another 2 cartoons by mate who did the painting, A weird spanish painting of a flamenco dancer and the suggestion of a bull and toreador, a sepia ink and watercolour of ratty in his boat by Arthur Lowe (the artist not the actor).
Hall way: Various phots from holidays etc, a Japanese watercolour of the weathermen (seven Oni creating weather and underneath pistures of Geishas enjoying\suffering the weather) Probably Edwardian as newspaper used to back it is from 1908), Upstairs landing shitloads of photos of the crotchfruit.

You'll be pleased to know that's about it.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:31, Reply)

Fair little gallery you've got there at 'Mong Repose'.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:35, Reply)

Ha! Nearly.
Asperger Heights.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:45, Reply)

'Alzheimers thingy'

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:50, Reply)

Alzheimers Oubliette

(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Clever!
No. 237,definitely - 237,237, definitely 237.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:48, Reply)

I forgot
I also have a huge Tool poster, showing this image by Alex Gray
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:39, Reply)

A fucking huge framed print of this:


One of my old band's gig posters, a photo of my kid printed on canvas, and a 1981 New York poster for an old skool hip hop show.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Figures.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Biro art
www.loukabooga.co.uk/ink - an old friend of mine.

Numbers 2 and 3...and i have the actual original of number 3, although the scan is pretty poor, the red colour is much deeper, as opposed to orange.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 27 May 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Nice

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I like them.

( girlinthehole, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Oh and this.


First painting I ever did. It's the Pilgrims Way leading from Holy Island.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Do you do requests?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:26, Reply)

What, like "Hide that! It's fucking awful!"?
I'm teaching myself to paint in acrylics and I think it's about time I gave up and got some tuition. I usually paint from photos I've taken so far the results are mediocre at best. I'll get there though.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:29, Reply)

Hoist my own petard.
Damn, I hoped you would fall for that one.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:33, Reply)

From sideways it could be a stairway to heaven.
Or a railway track after pikeys have been at it.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:52, Reply)

At uni, nothing
At home: Sigur Ros film poster, surrealist postcards, a quote from Mae West, an Escher print.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:16, Reply)

I have a generic canvas of a beach that makes me happy when it's raining
and a Venetian mask I bought in Venice, together with a watercolour, also from Venice, of some gondolas at night.

The mask is really beautiful, but occasionally scares the crap out of me when I go past it in the middle of the night to get a glass of water.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Lucky bugger.
I need to pass a mirror and still forget it's there. Most disconcerting.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Passing a mirror must be really painfull
Do you use lube?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Thu 27 May 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Nah. Hardcore, me.
Dentist shouldn't have looked in my mouth when I was hungry.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Thu 27 May 2010, 12:41, Reply)