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We have a numbered print my wife likes. The rest is cheap stuff.

I pick up frames, sometimes with pictures in them, at thrift stores. If anyone takes a good picture Walmart makes it into a photo for next to nothing. So I have a bunch of cheap stuff braking up the walls. I prefer them to the starving artist stuff that is mass produced in glorified paint-by-numbers factories.

My daughter is friends with a professional artist and has spent a couple of thousand on her modernistic stuff. It's not something I would enjoy.

I'll never own anything with bragging rights (Picasso etc) so don't get too wrapped up in the market.

I do kick myself for not buying a painting I saw on an art tour years ago. The painting resonated with me but for some reason I didn't go for it back then. Buying as an investment is out of my league and IMO cheapens the purchase.

My opinion: A true artist does it as a passion. Profit is secondary.

One of my daughter's efforts. Sorry for the poor quality image.
 

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nobbie48 said:
We have a numbered print my wife likes. The rest is cheap stuff.

I pick up frames, sometimes with pictures in them, at thrift stores. If anyone takes a good picture Walmart makes it into a photo for next to nothing. So I have a bunch of cheap stuff braking up the walls. I prefer them to the starving artist stuff that is mass produced in glorified paint-by-numbers factories.

My daughter is friends with a professional artist and has spent a couple of thousand on her modernistic stuff. It's not something I would enjoy.

I'll never own anything with bragging rights (Picasso etc) so don't get too wrapped up in the market.

I do kick myself for not buying a painting I saw on an art tour years ago. The painting resonated with me but for some reason I didn't go for it back then. Buying as an investment is out of my league and IMO cheapens the purchase.

My opinion: A true artist does it as a passion. Profit is secondary.

One of my daughter's efforts. Sorry for the poor quality image.
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Your daughter did one of the moose? Awesome. Any idea where it is now? How many were there?
 
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Your daughter did one of the moose? Awesome. Any idea where it is now? How many were there?
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Hers was on display at the mall on Yonge in North York.. It wasn't one of the ones where people just plastered crap on the statue. They were annoyed hers was taking so long, until they saw the results. I heard that the sponsor wanted it for their cottage. I can't recall how many there were but hers was #253. I'm not sure of the numbering system.

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My daughter's moose was inside and, re the vandalism, security was told their jobs were toast if anything happened to it.
 
I have a bunch of paintings in my house that I try to get from local artists and some crappy little ones I did myself.

Sacha Taylor did a huge custom Rossi painting for me a few years and specializes in automotive art.
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My first wife was a weaver and was in the show early on before it became impossible to supply enough work.

Brought a few pieces to Australia. - what I could fit in the suitcase. :rolleyes:
 
I love a good LEGO set as much as anyone @matthew but pricing nowadays has gone ballistic.

My buddy finds sets used for <20 or so, builds them, and flips them for $100+ depending on the set. I should tell him I'd like first right of refusal, but it's his hustle so not sure how receptive he would be.
 
Any love for sculpture? This is a found art piece I did called Tall Woman with Bald Man.
It's made from old Singer sewing machine parts.
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On a related note, a mural artist in Hamilton is in a payment dispute. The mural is a bike at speed.


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Fuzzbuster said:
Just put a motorcycle in your living room, its all the art you will ever need! However, it could cause irreversible damage to your marriage!
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A good friend has a Ducati Sport Classic in his living room as art. He's also single.

An acquaintance of a friend in BC owns a few Aprilia ex-MotoGP bikes that grace his home as art. He's married, but also wealthy enough to buy ex-GP bikes, so can get away with it...
 
Priller said:
A good friend has a Ducati Sport Classic in his living room as art. He's also single.

An acquaintance of a friend in BC owns a few Aprilia ex-MotoGP bikes that grace his home as art. He's married, but also wealthy enough to buy ex-GP bikes, so can get away with it...
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I have a built-in in the living room built like a brick *^^$house with some room above it. It should support a bike. If I get one up there, no way my wife can get it down. I may be perpetually subjected to angry stares though.
 
GreyGhost said:
I have a built-in in the living room built like a brick *^^$house with some room above it. It should support a bike. If I get one up there, no way my wife can get it down. I may be perpetually subjected to angry stares though.
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Hey, if I had an original RC30, I'd be putting it in the living room and happily ignoring the angry stares...
 
Accidentally, one ended up in my house, I simply explained that as per the manufacturers specifications it required a constant temperature over the winter, the bike never left! Now when visitors come by they usually give a weird look and say you have a motorcycle in your home, I nod and reply yes that is a motorcycle in my living room! I put Christmas lights on it last year!
 
A widowed friend has about 6 or 7 inside his house. There's even a Z50 and a moped up in a room on the second floor.
 
Oh and remember my rule for a happy marriage. If you're going to start a motorcycle in the house, open windows first.
 
I have a loose definition of art. Art is anything you make better looking or expressive simply for the sake of it.

If paint on a piece of canvas is art why not paint on a toolbox?
 
timtune said:
A widowed friend has about 6 or 7 inside his house. There's even a Z50 and a moped up in a room on the second floor.
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A neighbour (divorced) owns over 50 bikes, with a number of them inside the house, whether basement, main floor or upstairs. Mostly vintage stuff (his winter project is rebuilding two TZ250 motors for VRRA racing next year). I'm not sure if they qualify as art to him, but he absolutely loves being surrounded by bikes in general. On any given summer evening, I can pop by and he'll be sitting in his backyard with a beer in one hand, a joint in the other and with one of the many bikes in his garage pulled out to start, admire, and fuss over.
 
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