My Own Thoughts

Category: Art

  • Artists I like

    Gary Benfield Janet Treby Itzchak Tarkay Csada Markus, some Roy Fairchild-Woodard, his sepia Rebecca Hardin, her cherry blossom piece Hailan, one Fressinier Peter Nixon -and someone I can’t remember their name

  • Picassos and forgeries

    I was looking for leather couches. How I got from there to Picasso is an uninteresting and short tale. Then I went to Costco’s Fine Art and was amazed to see “La Folie” by Picasso for sale there. It is a serigraph. My husband’s boss owns one. It is actually the only Picasso I ever…

  • Janet Treby

    I own two signed/numbered AP serigraphs by Janet Treby. I really like her style in some of her pictures. She appears to be working in three different styles. I like one of them a lot. One of her s/n AP serigraphs is on sale on eBay. I like it. No one’s bid on it. But…

  • Artists to Watch

    Okay, even though I’m out of money, and wall space, I went to ebay and looked through the art section. I found some beautiful work there. Conni Togel. I like her stuff. Sherry L. Her Autumn Trees caught my eye. There’s another guy, Bob, whose stuff is hangable now. I put it in Ebay watch,…

  • My Blue Glass

    What’s my good stuff? I have a New Century cobalt pitcher. (Hazel-Atlas late 1920s to early 1930s, $60 list in Mauzy’s.) I bought it in Brenham. (I’d like to go back there on a weekend with money.) I have a Moderntone creamer and sugar, without the metal lid. I actually don’t like the metal lid,…

  • Buying Glass

    I said I wouldn’t ever again buy a piece that wasn’t perfect. But what if I could buy a piece that sells for $750 perfect? It’s not perfect; it has small scratches and a chip. But I could buy it for $75. It shows well, even though it is not perfect. And it is a…

  • Passing Up a Windfall

    I was antiquing in a town way out in nowhere (go three different farm roads to get there) and found a beautiful Royal Lace pitcher for $175. I didn’t have my books with me and for all I knew it had been reproduced. I couldn’t afford that much for a piece I didn’t love and…

  • Wood

    First off, I love wood. I love the woods. I love trees. I love wood furniture. I love wood floors. I love wood beams, wood mantles, wood everything. A friend of mine’s sister is a woodworker. A crafter in wood. A wood turner is how she describes herself. It is beautiful wood. Lynne Yamaguchi. Beautiful…

  • Art at the Airport

    Found Art is a boingboing site about a woman who is collecting the pictures that people take when the security people insist they take a picture to prove their camera is not a bomb. She wants to do a whole cultural show about it. (Very Canadian, I'd say.) I thought it was great that someone…

  • Porn into Art

    Also on the same boing boing page, Porn, Hold the Sex is about an artist who uses Adobe Photoshop to clean up swiped porn pictures. That is, she goes to sites, downloads the pictures, removes the people, and has a new picture. She then sells the images, with the same titles, to art mavens in…

  • Art? Or terror?

    An art student put forty black boxes all over Union Station with the word FEAR on them. His art shut the place down for five hours. Was this art? Was this stupid? It might have been intended to be art, but overall I think it was stupid. If he was talking about Sept. 11, then…