Show me your original art pieces

[Imdanny]

The catfish is nice!

Congrats!

 

[Imdanny]

This is a full-sheet watercolor of the glass doorknob to the kitchen of our 1920s house.
22" x 30"

Stunning.

My grandparents in New York (State) had, now my uncle has it, a 1920's house, all glass doorknobs, old fashioned locks and keys, 6 or 8 inch wood molding, solid wood pocket doors between the formal entry and living room, hardwood floors, etc. And custom hardwood furniture made to fit the living room and master bedroom, beautiful floor and table lamps, and other beautiful furniture.

I don't know how they afforded it. I think they must have been bootleggers.

 

[reader]

I am loving all the art, but the charcoal tree really calls to me. Thank you everyone for sharing.

 

[klewis]

Kenny - The way you have captured the glass, metal and wood AND in waterclolour is incredible, I'd love to see what you make of the Octavia.

Since the OP did mention bought pieces too - The Golden Fish is painted by a friend of mine Mandy Hague which has been in my home for almost a year now after she gave it to me to "babysit". I took this pic of it off her blogspot because my attempts to photograph it and do it justice have failed.

The Woman & Goat is painted by Bairu Raghuram
and the following are from a series of paintings of women by Sunita Dinda. I like her colourful figurative style and her series of paintings of children at play are really lovely. I bought these from an amazing gallery in Jaipur, India.

 

[davi_el_mejor]

Reader, what an adorable and sentimental piece!
Kenny, holy quacamole! W W I so do not have the patience to do what you have done. That glass doorknob....uh-may-ZING
Diamondseeker, your daughter is very talented. She has a great impressionistic feel to her work.
Kelpie, Aww your mom's stuff is great, I especiallly love the duck... Frida is a perfect way to describe the little girl
Imdanny, Thanks I initially had a tinge of buyers remorse... but that has all disappeared over time
Klewis, love love love the goldfish! I love Magritte and that gives me the same vibe as his stuff. I really love the woman and goat too.

Thanks everyone for participating! I hope more and more of you continue to post some stuff! Can't wait

 

[PilsnPinkysMom]

All the paintings and drawings are wonderful. I'm floooored (but not surprised) by the PSer talent radiating through this thread. Wowza.

Kenny, where did you take classes? Was this at a university or did you find a local art studio? Have you always been artistic, or did you just take to painting and drawing with ease? Your work is incredible & you could EASILY sell some of that stuff if you wanted to. Share the love!! I want a doorknob picture hanging on my wall, too!!!

Davi- your paintings are gorgeous, too. How wonderful that both you and your SO paint. Is painting a hobby or are you and artist by trade?

 

[kenny]

Kenny, where did you take classes? Was this at a university or did you find a local art studio? Have you always been artistic, or did you just take to painting and drawing with ease?

Thanx PPM.
All 3 classes were from the same instructor at the local community college.
He is an amazing teacher and everyone was really happy with what he got out of us.
This was when I hit 40 and had my mid-life crisis and I didn't dabble much in art before that.

I do want to get back into it but many hours go into a monster like the crystal doorknob so if I sold work it would effectively be for less than minimum wage.
But yes, I want to get my work out there.

There is a monthly exhibit hall that has invited me, I'm thinking about.

 

[Bunny007]

Watercolor
13" x 20.
Painted from a picture in National Geographic.

Kenny you're so talented!

 

[luv2sparkle]

We have some talented people and families here!!! All the work is beautiful! Kenny, your painting of the glass doorknob is
stunning! I could stare at it for hours. I hope continue on to produce wonderful works of art. I would love to see them. Please, if you
do a showing, or are in a gallery for sale, please tell us here, so in the very least, we cali folk could see it in person!

 

[zoebartlett]

Wow, these are great pieces! Every one of them is really beautiful.

I have a few favorite pieces done by a local artist in my hometown, but since she paints pics of houses, buildings, and scenery in an area close to where my family lives, I'd rather not post them here. Maybe I'll post a pic done by a different artist though.

 

[Nashville]

Well, I think the doorknob painting belongs in a museum. It's really beyond words how cool it is.

 

[dragonfly411]

KENNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! - have you ever considered teaching watercolor? It is one of the mediums I so long to be good at, but cannot quite get the hang of.

I mostly work with oils, and pastels.

Which they are all photo'd folks, just trying to figure out how to upload them on this crazy mac.


I love the woman and goat!

 

[reader]

Oh keep the art coming, this is one of the best thread ideas.

 

[missydebby]

Here are my three favorite portraits that I've made and have hanging in the house.


This is a self portrait I made in 2008 in acrylic. I'm looking all serious, but that's cause I've been staring at my own mug for 5 hours...


This is a portrait of my daughter playing Dora on my laptop in 2007. It's the first drawing I did in 12 years.... I had some issues


These are four really quick portraits I did in my drawing group - each 15 minutes, in charcoal. That was one night I was just on!


This is a photo of the model.

Man, I wish I could direct you guys to my website... but that wouldn't be PS kosher, would it?

 

[dragonfly411]

Missy Debby - those are fantastic! I especially like the top right of the quartet at the bottom. I love how you captured the shapes of the face.

 

[kenny]

Man, I wish I could direct you guys to my website... but that wouldn't be PS kosher, would it?

Fantastic work!

Yes, I wish PS would not be so restrictive on external contacts.
A few creeps really spoil it for the rest of us.

 

[sphenequeen]

Kenny - I am just stunned!

 

[kenny]

Okay, for scale, here it is on our wall near the actual doorknob itself.
That's not me; a friend is playing piano.
Those are old iron holders to the left.

A big reason I took art classes was I wanted some original art for the walls of this house when I bought it in 1999.
I couldn't afford any of the original art that I liked and you get to an age where posters from Ikea just don't cut it any more.
I was hoping I could make something nice enough.

 

[monarch64]

I am so sad, yet so happy reading this thread. I love looking at all of your wonderful original works of art.

I had several lovely pieces given to me by my parents that were destroyed by my ex during his hostility. I'm sure many other PSr's had pieces destroyed by natural disastors or otherwise...

I really lament the art works that are now lost to me. There is something very great to be said about what art means to people and how the pieces fit into their homes and lives that is so meaningful. I am happy for all of you that you are able to enjoy them.

Thank you all for sharing, I hope people keep adding to this thread their treasures because they are so enjoyable.

 

[monarch64]

Okay, for scale, here it is on our wall near the actual doorknob itself.
That's not me; a friend is playing piano.
Those are old iron holders to the left.

A big reason I took art classes was I wanted some original art for the walls of this house when I bought it in 1999.
I couldn't afford any of the original art that I liked and you get to an age where posters from Ikea just don't cut it any more.
I was hoping I could make something nice enough.

*sniffles* This is just beautiful, thank you for sharing.

 

[zoebartlett]

Thanks for showing the full piece on the wall, Kenny. It's gorgeous!

 

[Irishgrrrl]

Kenny, I love the way you're displaying the doorknob painting! It looks beautiful on your wall!

 

[Porridge]

Oh Kenny that doorknob is just beautiful. I must confess to being woefully inartistic and to possessing a negligible amount of knowledge on the subject, but some things just speak to you don't they. I could look at that painting for hours, it invites all sorts of imaginings about what lies beyond.

 

[LGK]

I have a ton of artwork floating around the house. I oil paint mostly. Some of the stuff from years and years ago is colored pencil. Creepy landscapes, and/or weird self portraits primarily... I am too lazy to ask other people to pose for me usually so, when I do anything figurative, it's usually me or DH. The sizes are mostly extreme- either enormous with life size figures or tiny, postcard size. For figurative work I usually do a grisaille (or sepia & white) underpainting and then glaze the color over the top. Landscapes I work almost the same way, but usually with a bright color plus white as the "grisaille" instead of sepia or black for the underpainting. I also did a lot of print in college since I double majored in print and oil painting.

 

[LGK]

More.

BTW, Kenny, your arktwork is *stunning*- you really have a wonderful eye for composition.

 

[kenny]

it invites all sorts of imaginings about what lies beyond.

I'm glad you got that.

The name of the doorknob watercolor is, "Can we close that door?"
I painted it 11 years ago when I was in psychoanalysis.
I was ending a 13-year destructive relationship and just discovering all the dark childhood trauma that kept me down in my adult life.

Notice the door is being closed on darkness, but this side is bursting with dazzling, intricate beauty and optimism.

The perspective that results in the key pointing down and the doorknob pointing up is the result of being very very close to what's going on. (the camera, the eye and the awareness)
Even the composition leaning over and being off-plumb is about catching my balance.

 

[LGK]

This is a series of alla prima landscapes- no underpainting or glazing over the top, just one sitting pretty much. Various locations like Amsterdam, Venice etc. And of course Seattle.

 

[kenny]

LGK I love your work.

Your self portraits make me want to ask the woman what she's thinking.
Very involving.
Wonderful!!!

 

[LGK]

This is another enormous one, six foot by something.

 

[LGK]

This was another alla prima one- I think it was for a life drawing class in my senior year of college, when I was ultra, ultra sick of looking at the same model that the teacher kept hiring. So it was probably a 4 hour project.

I think this is it for the stuff that has even somewhat semi decent pictures of it... well, obviously they *aren't* decent pictures but the rest are worse!

Thanks Kenny I haven't painted in about four years I have to admit, which I need to do again sometime, you definitely get out of practice, that's for sure.

And about your painting-first of all, I have always been terrified of watercolors because with oils you can repaint, and repaint, and repaint and fix and fiddle endlessly but watercolors? Those, you pretty much are *commited*. I'm totally amazed at what you managed with watercolors. And second of all, I went to art school for four years with plenty of people who did less interesting work and with less talent than you have after one class! That's amazing.

(I know there's other great artwork in this thread I need to look through... MissyDebby's for sure- so far I just glanced and saw Kenny's and wow, lovely stuff!)