A somewhat Stellar giveaway...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 03:18PM
Above is a picture of my framed postcard The Peckish Moon :D
While it works beautifully as intended - to write little notes on the reverse of and post out to your secret lovers, dear friends or paste ransom notes onto - pick up a whimsical frame, such as the one I got for myself here from a local homeware store, and you have yourself a very cute small print to brighten up dull corners in your home.
It's easy and inexpensive to become an art collector with places like Etsy that allow illustrators and creators to get in touch with their audience on a personal level. Or you could even make a very swish-looking gift for someone, frame a postcard or small standard-sized print in homeware frames and to give it away to a friend to make it their first collection piece, or add to a growing one...
.... speaking of giving stuff away...!!!
I may have thought up a fairly forward display method for my postcards here... putting them in a frame is hardly reinventing the wheel... :P but tell me, what's your favourite way to display art?
Pick a piece from my shop and let me know, or tell me how you already decorate. Anyone can be an art collector.. and coming from a treasure-hunted, I'll confirm that it's addicting!
Any especially creative ideas? How do show off art around your house, or if you don't, why not and tell me all about it.
Leave me the answer in a comment below - no right or wrong answers, but if you have pictures or want to explain in detail please do so. The winner will receive...
A precious, signed and dated Brewing Stars With Ursa Minor Giclee print!
The print comes mounted as in the picture above to the lucky winner :)
It's in a 5"X7" mount and is ready to fit into any standard frame, so homing it will be easy!
My archival prints are printed inhouse on a professional printed and they're very fine, high-grade creations in inks guaranteed against fading for at least 100 years. So they're quite a little investment and I'm happy to be able to offer one free to you guys who are so dear to follow my art! Giclee prints are the more collectable older posh cousins of regular matte or lustre prints. Though both are beautiful, the giclee are more resistant to age and sun. Also the ones I offer come ready-mounted to fit standard frames! :D
.... and look how dapper these mounted luxury prints look framed! This sample photo houses my Moth and Moon archival print.
Giveaway rules:
1) One comment per person please!
2) Giveaway entries until: Wednesday 25th January at 12pm (GMT)
3) Giveaway question: In case you are a skimmer, it's above in BOLD! Read and answer :)
Winner will be picked by a random number generator from the comments.
Share this giveaway in your circles I'll be sending you <3 for sharing Meluseena love :)
Good luck! :)
Reader Comments (10)
I love to display art in my home, I see it as a way to enhance both thinking and feeling. The place I choose to put a piece is often a comment to the surroundings. My print of "the peckish moon" is on the wall opposite of my bed, My "jailbreak"-print is on the wall over my cats feeding-place. In the hallway I have poetry art from a local artist because one often waits in hallways and have more time and attention to read it there. In the kitchen I have a small ceramic house on the wall, that I think was orginally intended as a christmas tree decoration, to remind me of my dream of a house of my own. Art doesn't have to be expensive either (in my case it can't be). For example: On my very white walls in my kitchen I have framed a beautiful and colorful piece of wallpaper. The list goes on. Art for me is a way to interact with my surroundings, and life would be poorer without it.
Ahh Liza I so love your artwork...I have an inspiration wall that I have mounted your print on. My wall is actually a magnetic chalk board paint and I ran the print that I bought from you a few months back through my xyron machine with the magnetic laminate cartridge so that I could add it to my inspiration wall ;}
Here's my post about it: http://con-tain-it.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/04/you-have-to-begin-telling-the-story-of-where-you-are-going-not-where-you-have-been.html#more
So cute! And I think you just answered the question for me: I absolutely love how that frame makes your postcards look even more wonderful than they already are.
I currently live in student accommodation in Durham, England with three other housemates - not the ideal place to develop an art-collecting habit. In fact, I've only decorated my (limited) walls with pretty cards and a couple of map posters.
Back home in my (proper) room in Malta I have purple walls and any art (such as your BEAUTIFUL and my absolute favourite - Wrapped around her finger) is framed very plainly (most of them with a simple thin black wooden frame) because I love to showcase the actual art rather than having to fuss around with frames getting in the way.
HOWEVER - now you've completely sold me on the idea of gorgeous quirky frames. I can't wait to have my own (proper) house to fill it up with striking art (in pretty frames).
I display your art primarily around my neck - and always get a positive response. I have the constant gardener postcard in a frame in my jewelry studio - there is no bad way to display beautiful art like yours!
Thanks so much for the opportunity!
I used to love the Moth and the Moon best. I am very fond of the necklace and now also ordered the postcard that I will probably hang on the wall above my desk. It is filled with beautiful postcards that make me smile and feel inspired. And I love that I can add to it or change it up every now and then. You can see it here if you'd like:
http://blueeyednightowl.blogspot.com/2011/12/interview-at-chickiedee.html
Love this new print too by the way!
You are right when you said that it’s easy to become an art collector, I love to frame beautiful postcards, prints and illustrations.
I recently divorced and moved to a new place, so for me was very important to be comfortable at my new home, so I framed a lot of my small treasures with a mix of new and vintage frames I got from department stores to flea markets. I put them all together like a huge frames collage in a wall of my room and looks beautiful and cozy... definitely my room is my favorite place at this new apartment.
As you can see I have a little small print of the "Little Unseamer" that you send me when I bought the print "Marie Antoinette", which is one of my favorites print at home… but I only can post once, so I will wait to the next giveaway to show you that one ;) You can see my wall pic from here! http://pic.twitter.com/VcRMEJ2Y
I love all of your digital artwork, but my fav is the artwork named "You, at Last". One way that i display my art is by hanging framed photos or pictures from a ribbon. Sometimes I even hang multiples together the same way by hanging a rod on the wall and stringing the photos from it on ribbon. Even so diverse mediums and frames are brought to together by a single, shared wall color which in my case its dark purple. Personally i think that the key focus to display the art is by creating contrast between the photo and its surroundings.
Thanks for this opportunity!!
I really have no special favorite way of displaying art. Each piece "tells" me how it wants to be viewed. I have lots of traditionally framed pieces, of course, but others lean against bookcases, sit perched atop anything that will stand still, or take a temporary place in my revolving gallery in my office. I love groupings that tell a story, and very seldom is a piece displayed solo.
Thanks, Lisa!
As an artist, I feel it necessary to be totally surrounded by art at all times, so my walls/shelves etc are all very crowded. I love a lot of different subject matter and styles to keep it all from looking like chaos I custom paint all my frames in the same faux aged patina so while everything is different it all sorta "goes" if that makes sense. I've also found that if you just collect what you really love it will all end up fitting naturally in your home, well at least to you :) I've been a long time admirer my favorite pieces so far and for quite a while have been Jack and the Queen and Red and Wolf. You truly are a talent!
I like to show pieces of artworks depending on the medium they are on: I love to frame paper, collages and stuff so they match with the frame and create a little universe, but I also like to leave canvas and wood pieces by their own so they would stand out more.
In any case I like to keep all this different piece near to me, so when I'm working at my desk I lift my head and have a glimpse of Beauty. Of course one of your art is there as well: "Queen takes Bishop", which I'm in love with! :)