[Closed] Friday Artwork - what've you got on your walls?

In my lounge/front room -
I have a Rosemary Firth painting of some woodland
2 pictures done by my son for his art GCSE
an ink drawing of my dog done by myself
and a Record Roots record holder with 16 album artworks displayed (current theme, black & white).

Blimey. Off to take a few pix.

I have this one behind me (although as it's an ancient poster, the orange is now pale yellow):

And this one in front of me:

This poster is on my office wall

And some photos from walks & rides on holiday

In my lounge at home i've:
A huge (a2 maybe) map of Watopia!
A huge pencil drawing of a fox shock (i wanted to buy the original, but it sold, so this is a print.. got it through STW!
A print of the STW lockdown cover
A few original printes of a you tube artist my lad likes that I can't for the life of me remember... vesta? vector? something like that. Really bright and vibrant..

The framing probably cost the most - i like to use non reflective glass!

DrP

Brumhaus

Birmingham Colour Palette

Geraint (not strictly artwork I guess)

Hannah Cole

@lunge - I absolutely love that Brumhaus print! Really simple but every building is instantly recognisable

Liking the Hannah Cole 🙂

@binners, it's good isn't it? We've got a couple and they're awesome. Wonder if anyone does something similar for other cities?

I have a Binners 🙂

Frame TV so all the stuff on there

Leonardo exhibition print

Design museum HOPE print

Degas print

Various of my own B&W pictures on metal

Elizabeth Walker original screen print

Greasy fingermarks, the odd bogey and some unidentifiable "material" (but definitely of human origin). Kids, love em 😀

oh and one of these behind me

Did'nt realise there was so much on the walls.

First batch.

https://www.sidingstudios.com/2022/03/25/first-10-of-30/

Last two galleries.

https://www.sidingstudios.com/2022/03/25/second-10-of-30/

https://www.sidingstudios.com/2022/03/25/third-of-30-last/

I have this wood veneer marquetry album cover I did a few years ago of the second best band ever.

Gabba Gabba hey!

PS Couple of odd one in the collection.

Britains Deetail Toy Soldier Poster and actual model display. I collect these, if any body here is clearing an attic and come across any.... I'm always interested 🙂

Dont throw them away...throw them over here 🙂

I have a large, original signed print of this, by my favourite photographer, Laura Panack, on one wall:

some of my album display looks like this. Can't remember them all

@kelvin - Your Hac print will have been designed by either Graham Newman or John Mackland, both of whom were my lecturers at uni 🙂

I’ve got this up, which is possibly my favourite because it was hand drawn with Rotring pen and marker by my old mate Matthew Poscah as a 50th Birthday present

And this massive one

I’ve got some of my own Aboriginal artwork purchased in the Northern Territory… but because we’re in temporary accommodation there’s lots of my in-laws’ paintings, too. Australian landscapes, PNG woodcarving, more Aboriginal paintings.

I’ve got this up, which is possibly my favourite because it was hand drawn with Rotring pen and marker by my old mate Matthew Poscah as a 50th Birthday present

Very nice.

Last thing I put up was this - one for the Twin Peaks fans...

In my spare room, which I planned to use as an office but ended up working in the lounge, I have a bunch of my portraits done on iPad stuck in a huge post frame. I'll put an example up if I have one online.
Here's one
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On the other wall, some [url= https://fineartamerica.com/featured/a-human-body-showing-the-muscles-mary-evans-picture-library.html ]Mary Evans[/url] anatomical drawings.

Snowy Howarth Station Photo and edit by me

What the heck is an "original print"? Surely it's one or the other.

What the heck is an “original print”?

Maybe a limited edition print sold by the artist (eg. https://elishaenfield.co.uk/store (personally I wouldn't use the word original, it's a print)), or if the artist is a litho-printer, an original of one of those...?

Let's see if I can get these pics to work.

Study - signed NMA poster, signed Levellers print and ticket from a great gig in Germany

Cheap prints from gigs in Bristol

Hall - Commissioned original painting from Joolz Denby - 2m wide canvas (and decorating junk)

Chalk original from a Cornwall artist in dining room

I couldn't take a pic of this, but it's the 'Known Pleasures' print of the highest fells in the Lake District

Bottom of stairs, print of the Struggle by a local known pie botherer

And my favourite, brand new commission from the aforementioned binners. A view over Ambleside to Loughrigg. It gets better every time I look at it.

Large (nearly 1.5 m high) slightly ghostly dual exposure picture made by my sister a while ago sits under the skylight on our landing.

Maybe a limited edition print sold by the artist (eg. https://elishaenfield.co.uk/store (personally I wouldn’t use the word original, it’s a print)), or if the artist is a litho-printer, an original of one of those…?

Yes it's this. In the world of fine art photography the notion of a 'print' is confusing becuase there are so many ways in which it can be done (and each has a different value).

The ultimate is a 'hand print', which means it is made using the traditional method of exposing an analogue negative, via an enlarger, onto photographic paper. Usually that is a process done by a specialist printer (indeed most photographers will prepare prints via a specialist printer) with a great deal of care and attention to things like dodging and burning. The results are stunning but it's hugely costly.

After that you get C-types and inkjet prints that are either sanctioned and supervised by the photographer (hence 'original print') and thus usually signed and numbered, or they are just reproductions, in which case they aren't 'original'.

Of course you could also have something like an original Ricahrd Learoyd where the negative is the final print and that's the only copy that can ever exist because there is no negative. He shoots direct to positive print using a camera obscura and his work is sublime. It's worth checking out.

A Freedom Comes with a Chain print from Helena Tyce Designs. It's slightly different to that currently in her Etsy store. Mine doesn't have the chain between text and image and has a light background with a sun on it, not the black background.

I used to live in Margate and a local gallery had a nice colourful print of Margate seafront I really liked but never quite managed to find the cash for.

Would love to buy original art for the walls.

Above... I like both of Kelvins, and Binners 50th hand draw with a Rotring.

This in the hallway.

And a couple of Mint Sauce original [posters in the bathrooms.

And a Ron Lawson Berneray bay painting. Can't find it online.

Surprise 50th birthday present painted by girlfriends sister, Clare Fearon

Also have a time-lapse video that she made of all the individual layers that made it up, shows the hidden birthday message 🙂

A Freedom Comes with a Chain print from Helena Tyce Designs.

Like this one? This is in the kitchen next to my Unknown Pleasures image which is worth looking closely at. My friend Clare, who just does amazing things with paper, did it for me. It's the design scalpelled out of a sheet of white A4 card, then placed over a piece of black card. I often find myself staring at it and marvelling at the work and the precision that's gone into it

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And here's SC-XC's Ambleside image, which by the looks of it is in some pretty esteemed company

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I do love seeing them up where they're meant to be. Especially in such a great looking space

Got a bunch of silkscreens by people like Tara McPherson, Brad Klausen, Ames Bros, Justin Hampton etc

And various litho prints by Obey Giant/Shepard Fairey, Rhys Cooper, Sit , Ken Taylor, Deathburger etc - some numbered/signed others just open runs.

And loads of others that need framing.

He's got the Whole World, On his wall

Lurcher Wesenden

2 foot seal at the top of the stairs. Bought on a 3 month stint in Helsinki. Took me 5 years to get it framed. The boys say "goodnight friendly seal!" on their way to bed.

Saimaa Ringed Seal does not live anywhere else in the world than Finland Saimaa. The Saimaa ringed seal is critically endangered – it is facing an extremely immediate risk of extinction in the wild.

Erik Bruun drew the ringed seal in the 70’s to draw attention to endangered situation. The drawing is now Finnish Association for Nature sign.

self portrait of my lad with our first dog. It's not artist quality but it has a special quality to us

Love that NMA, Culture Shock and Subhumans stuff sc-xc. 😊

Some spacey stuff (do I need to take the CCCP one down??) and some colouring-in by a bloke from Bury 😙

My living room has four paintings by Shani Rhys James and four by Richard Fitton. There's quite a bit more dotted about the house. Lucky to have it.

Some lovely pictures on here. Unfortunately I just have fingerprints and pen marks. My youngest stashes pens somewhere and then breaks them out when we aren’t looking!

It’s not artist quality

It most certainly is. That painting has a style of it’s own. Love it.

We have some Simon Stålenhag prints through the house.

the only thing of artistic note other than my own doodles is this videoanimation still

name that video !

This, courtesy of some northern crayon botherer!

@swanny853 - Have you got any pictures of it up, in situ?

I love seeing them up where they’re meant to be and I was so chuffed with how this looked when it came back from the printers on a big alloy plate.

Which then obviously begged the question; how do you transport a massive sheet of printed aluminium to the other end of the country

I thought I’d sent you one?

*checks email*

Year old message in drafts folder. I don’t think the photo in it does it justice! You’re going to have to wait until I’ve got a good one- it works where it is, but seemingly really hard to photograph well

Most of our stuff is mine as I need somewhere to store it but we change stuff about quite a bit. This is my most recent one and I am really in two minds about selling it but I feel that about a lot of my paintings initially. It is in the spare room at the moment bnut I look at it most days.

150cmx50cm Acrylic on stretched canvas.

This one has been in the main bedroom because the wife likes it (more than I do) and it is good in that position.

The close up shows it a little clearer. There is the red profile of a young ladies face but then the yellow outline of the same lady when older having weathered a lifetime of experience. If you look carefully at the back of the face of the young lady you can see the profile of an old man looking into the heads of both women.

In reference to my comment about colouring-in up there 👆, here’s in-situ

This Jon Tremaine is opposite where I'm sat, the more you look the more you see.

We also have Lemon Jelly Lost Horizons artwork with the daytime view in the room we use in the day and night scene in our evening room.

Apart from in the 'bike toilet' where there's loads of random bike-related stuff, most (90%) of the stuff on our walls is my own landscape paintings from various points in my life. Less ego than 'I make images that I want to look at so why wouldn't I hang them on my walls?'.

Might do some photos later.

A large admiralty chart of Loch Lomond, must be 100years old, its quite beautiful with its crosshatching moutnain shading and inset landscape view. It also has a tiny bit of graffiti from my mum or one of her brothers on it from their child hood being swallows and amazons.

A bonch off little watercolour sketches of flower arrangements from the local florist (her arrangements and her watercolours), we both loved the style so i sneaked in and bought all of them.

A painting of the cranes lifting the new dundee station arch into place in the middle of the night by my dad.

Various other bits and bobs been a bit lax putting stuff back on the wall since i moved in... 6 years ago.

On the wall you say?

Our daughter is a book designer (even put a picture of her old dad on the cover she did of a JK Galbraith book) and painted this muriel* for us.

(*obscure Hilda Ogden reference)

I have a Binners, a few paintings by Son1 (very talented but not motivated, sadly), a reproduction railway poster a few originals of my home town by local artists, a vintage map, a front page of the Daily Telegraph (I took the photo) and some cycling prints. Oh and a framed letter.

The railway poster appears behind me in online meetings 😌

It most certainly is. That painting has a style of it’s own. Love it.

I have a confession, that's not my son's work, I just stole it off

and now I feel bad because 1/ this is a serious thread with some proper art; and 2/ someone painted it, and it's not as bad as some I've seen. Including the cover piece for that FB page (Dear God!)

I actually have a Binners commission piece, of a 'coloured in' Clandon Park where I got married.

I did this one last year which is on the living room wall

And this I did in the eldest daughters bedroom

Also have quite a few originals from various artists I've picked up in small art studios around the country.

I love graffitti...
Took me a while but got a original Seen from his studio

And got this banksy from Croydon GDP ( well my son was handed it as they were only giving to kids)

What the heck is an “original print”? Surely it’s one or the other.

Printmaking is an art from in its own right - so an 'original print' in an etching, engraving, lithograph, woodcut or whatever produced by the artist - and also an artwork which in its original from is a print. Thats distinct from a reproduction of an artwork.

My dad was an artist so we have lots of his paintings on the walls, and also one of my mum's patchwork wall hangings.

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I'd save this before I saved the wife. Customer painted it for me 10-12 years ago.

I guess not really artwork but hangs on my wall. One of my most treasured items.

Most of what’s on the walls are posters, mostly music oriented.

This one’s a bit shabby, I took it off a wooden electricity substation door on my way home from the gig, all the there had been grabbed. It’s got a bit foxed over the years, but it is 48 years old! It was actually a warm-up gig prior to the album release, I saw them again about six months later at Bristol Colston Hall. This is on my bedroom wall.

Self explanatory, I didn’t get to the gig, but I managed to get hold of the poster, number 19/50. This is on the stairs wall.

As is this one…

And these two, signed reproductions of album sleeves. It was going to be part of the band getting back together, but Toni backed out, sadly; I absolutely love the band.

This one I was given by one of the lecturers at Bristol College School of Print and Design at Ashley Down. It’s a photo of one of the Tors on Dartmoor, done as a form of posterisation, but it involves something like fourteen separate plates, one for each different shade, litho printed as solids, no half-tone screen. Purely as an experiment, I’ve got two, the other one is all cold greys, and is stashed away somewhere. That’s around 40-odd years old as well.

A bugger getting a photo of this, just because of the reflections!

This is a new copy from original Rick Griffin artwork of a Filmore concert in San Francisco. I love Griffin’s artwork!

This tour poster was one of a few that Kris found stashed away, so she put them up on her site, and signed this one for me. She’ll be doing a short tour a bit later this year with her husband, so I can show her the photo. Each poster was a hand printed silk-screen, and it’s beautiful artwork.

This is an original record company advertising poster for the album release in 1973, I’ve got a smaller one that was a double-page spread in NME, but it’s on very cheap paper, and has gone very brown now.

This one is a print by Etsuko Montgomery, called ‘Dream Letter’ no 17/25, from the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

I’d forgotten this one, up on the landing wall, original advertising poster from Virgin Records in Bristol, 1975.

GCSE art in the style of Charles Sheeler. He was originally told off for copying, until he pointed out it was his own work and the bridge post dated Sheeler’s death by about 70 years.

I’ve decided to undertake the full Bobby Sands remake/remodel.

I’ve decided to undertake the full Bobby Sands remake/remodel.

I bet it will be crap.

I'll get my coat.