art I bought on eBay

Title: "Pool Balls 1, 8, 9 and 14" #art #nibblefest

by ARTIST Christine E. Striemer , Eston, Saskatchewan, Canada

original work, signed and dated.

SIZE 8" x 8" 

MEDIA Professional Quality Acrylic Paints 

SUPPORT Primed canvas stretched on a solid wood frame.

Staple-free, 3/4 inch sides painted black- No Frame Needed

Finished with a high quality varnish. 

About the artist: “I am a full-time, award winning artist born and raised in rural Saskatchewan, Canada. I paint every day. I challenge myself with a variety of subjects so each piece gets a fresh burst of passion. Variety is the spice of life and I find beauty in all things. I love color and light, but I also have a darker side. Please visit my website for more details: www.paintingsbyces.com” ~Christine E. Striemer 

This piece was 1 of a set of 3 paintings that she painted for something called the Nibblefest Art Contest, a themed art contest beginning on the 20th of each month. In January 2012 the theme was "Letters, Numbers, and Symbols". Nibblefest has its own Facebook page! Click Here to join! 

Pool Balls 1, 8, 9 and 14 

Title: Time Square, New York ~ an original acrylic painting #art

By Peter Threlfall, Carnforth, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Painted in rich and vibrant, textural, acrylics, this is one of Peter's many Cityscape paintings.

Image size 12cm x 12cm, mounted in white, finished size 23cm x 23cm , unframed .

My husband and I have travelled to NYC together every spring for the past 6 years. We usually stay near Times Square. For us New York is all about the food, the people and the vibe.

About the artist: “Having worked as a commercial artist since leaving college I use my knowledge of perspective, colour and space within my paintings. I have been strongly influenced by the work of the French Impressionists, and Turner but also by more contemporary works by Howard Hodgkin. I use a mixture of brush and palette knife, but am not afraid to use my hands and fingers to manipulate and merge the paint. To create added texture, I also like to experiment with adding sand, sawdust, grit, fibres and more recently seeds to the paint..” ~ Peter Threlfall 

http://www.silverdalearttrail.co.uk/peterthrelfall/

Time Square, New York

Untitled (Red Tulips) Realism, Oil on Canvas #art

By: Tatjana Ruzin, Mississauga, Ontario

Original oil painting on canvas board, 100% hand painted signed on front & back and including Certificate of authenticity

size: 10"X8" ,   Style: Realism

I love tulips and already have a collection of 3 tulip paintings from various artists hanging together in my home. They work wonderfully as a “set” and I think this one will complement the grouping as well.

About the artist:

“She was born and raised in former Yugoslavia. Her first drawings of portraits and paintings started in her early age inspired by the river banks nearby the city she was born. Following her path she graduated from the School of Art for graphical design on 1979 in Novi Sad.

In 1982 she completed the College of Fine Art in Belgrade and started working as an art teacher immediately after graduation. Besides teaching, she worked as an illustrator for children stories and poems. She also did artwork such as murals, illustrations, brochures, sculptures, mosaics and logos.  She used techniques such as pen and ink, watercolor, acrylics and oils. <snip> In 1993 she immigrated to Canada.”

Untitled

TITLE: Pumpkin, oil on canvas paper by Irina Akimova #art

by Irina Akimova   http://irinart.ucoz.com/

Size: approx 7"x5";
This is a signed painting. This work of art was created with oil paints on canvas paper and protected with varnish.

A perfect little work of art to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving! I love the brush strokes, texture and the colours.

PUMPKIN

TITLE: Tulips by Irina Akimova, watercolour and coloured pencils #art

By Irina Akimova

This is a signed painting. This work of art was created with watercolours and coloured pencils on w/c paper.

Size: approx. 5"x7"

Tulips are one of my favourite subjects for art. This will be the 4th tulip painting in my collection. Three of them are already hanging together in my kitchen (one ACEO is by Akimova and also has a dark background like this one). I did buy one other lovely tulip in the past but I gifted that one to a good friend. My taste have expanded beyond florals recently but I still can't resist a pretty tulip.

TULIPS

TITLE: Fern by Irina Akimova, watercolour & gouache #art

by Irina Akimova

This work of art was created with watercolours and gouache on watercolour paper.
Size: approx. 10"x 8"
Signed by the artist

"I was born in Russia, graduated from Moscow State University. In 2004 I went to graduate school at Virginia Tech, and in May 2006 I received my Master's degree in ... mathematics. I have two sons and a daughter and every day try to get time for painting or drawing." ~ Irina Akimova     http://irinart.ucoz.com/

I have purchase a few of Irina's paintings in the past and I was thrilled to stumble upon a few more that tickled my fancy. It's usually more economical to purchase several paintings at once from the same artist to benefit from reduced shipping rates. In this transaction, shipping costs was $6.50 for the first one...the additional shipping costs for more paintings was only $1 each.  I bought 4... This one "Fern" but also "Pumpkin, "Poinsettia" and "Tulips". Stay tuned in the days ahead to see them all. Many artists stick with one medium, technique or subject and so it's fairly easy to recognize their work. Irina Akimova's paintings have different themes, colours and styles. This is one of the things I like about her work.

Fern

Title: Autumn's Blaze, acrylic on canvas #art

"I created this original textured painting with acrylics on a gallery wrapped canvas using mainly a painting knife.The painting is of a view looking up into a maple tree during the fall season." ~ Julie Glenzinski

The measurements are 11" high by 14" wide by 3/4" thick.

The back and front are signed by the artist

The back is also titled and dated.

Artist's website  www.artbyjulieann.com

Autumn's Blaze... I bought this painting last night to celebrate the first day of fall! 

Title: BINDWEED #art

by John Wright, Nottingham, United Kingdom
http://johnwrightart.blogspot.com/

Size: 16' x 20"

Original acrylic on stretched canvas signed by the artist.

It's been months since I've purchased any art off ebay. Most of my wall space is now spoken for and then some. To fuel my habit I continued to purchase and give the paintings as gifts or donate to Charity Auctions. Slowly I weaned myself off of the habit. BUT...A friend and I recently went on a local gallery hop and it inspired me to take another look on-line. No one can accuse me of being an "art snob" as I cannot bring myself to pay the big bucks just because it's a "well known" artist. I love to troll ebay for unknown artists. Some of these budding artists are very talented. You could say I don't buy art as a financial "investment" but more as a personal investment!

BINDWEED

Title: Downy Woodpecker Watercolor ACEO #art

by Janet Zeh, Willington, CT, United States

ACEO* original watercolor matted to 5"x 7"
*ACEO stands for Art Card Edition Original - miniature paintings that are 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. This item is an original painting.

I've purchased several small paintings from Janet over the past couple of years. She been doing many winter scenes with birds lately which I just adore. I have some bird feeders made of out recycled milk cartons hanging just outside my kitchen window and love to watch the chickadees and other birds enjoy what I've put out for them.

"A little downy woodpecker looks for insects in an old tree stump. This bird appears every once in a while at my bird feeder. Its habitat includes forests, woodlands, river groves and shade trees, all of which we have in abundance here!"~ Janet Zeh

http://www.zehoriginalart.com/

Title: New York Pavements #art

by Edward Hopper

Art Reproduction 17.25" x 14.25"

Painted in 1924, the original can be found at The Chrysler Museum of Art: Norfolk, VA.

Edward Hopper was a quirky individuals (as many would say about most artists). Here is another passage I found online which makes reference to this particular painting:
"He lived and worked in the same walkup apartment in Washington Square [New York City] from 1913 until 1967. He ate almost every meal of his adult life in a diner. He never rode in a taxi. He loved the theater, but he always sat in the cheap seats. He never had any children with his wife, and he never included a single child in any of his paintings. The closest he came was a painting called 'New York Pavements', showing a nun pushing a baby carriage."
Read more about Hopper here... http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2005/07/22  (scroll down to Literary and Historical Notes)

New York Pavements

Title: Summertime #art

by Edward Hopper

Art Reproduction 17.25" x 11.25"

I bought a pair of Hopper prints off ebay a while back but I'm just getting around to posting them here. I was attracted to these because I found the architecture reminded me of buildings in Saint John. As well, I love that he included these wonderful characters. For me the piece is mostly about the building but the woman makes it so much more visually appealing.

Painted in 1943, the original can be found in the Delaware Art Museum

Excerpt from a bio on Hopper:
"His paintings combine apparently incompatible qualities. Modern in their bleakness and simplicity, they are also full of nostalgia for the puritan virtues of the American past - the kind of quirky nineteenth-century architecture Hopper liked to paint, for instance, could not have been more out of fashion than it was in the mid-192OS, when he first began to look at it seriously. Though his compositions are supposedly realist they also make frequent use of covert symbolism. " The entire bio can be found here: http://artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html#images

Summertime

Title: Mindfulness, outsider art, original, acrylic #art

by Deborah South McEvoy

 

5" x 7 " original acrylic on canvas panel (companion piece to the painting I featured yesterday.)

 

The artist classified the style of these two works as "Outsider Art".

 

WHAT IS OUTSIDER ART?  The term outsider art is a synonym for art brut ("raw art" or "rough art"), a label created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture; Dubuffet focused particularly on art by insane-asylum inmates.

While Dubuffet's term is quite specific, the English term "outsider art" is often applied more broadly, to include certain self-taught or "Naïve" art makers who were never institutionalized. Typically, those labelled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. Outsider art has emerged as a successful art marketing category (an annual Outsider Art Fair has taken place in New York since 1992). ~ Excerpts from Wikipedia

 

Title: Inhabit Wholeness, original, acrylic #art

Title: Tranquility, a trio of giclee & iris prints #art

Arrachme and her husband Peter travel back and forth between Asheville/Black Mountain, N.C. and their peaceful home in "The Villages" Florida where magic happens daily. Arrachme has a current copyright and the trade mark processing for The Tangible Visualization Process as it relates to the creation of art and visual manifestation from a spiritual perspective. And the miracles keep happening...[excerpt from artist's bio on ebay store].

The colours of this little trio caught my eye but the story of Arrachme really enchanted me...to read more about the artist visit...  http://members.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=arrachme_art   and more here http://www.arrachmeart.com/ 

Tranquility  

 

Title: Triciclo #art

2.5" x 3.5"  ACEO  

This is a print of an original painting done in acrylic and ink. This limited edition print is 1 of only Four (4) prints

Triciclo

Title: Field Bliss (sexy flower series) #art

by Iwona Jankowski   The Woodlands, Texas, United States   http://www.ijartstudio.com/theartist.htm

This is a companion piece to the one featured here yesterday. The artist had many works featuring sunflowers listed on ebay but these were my two favourites. It is sexy isn't it? 

Field Bliss    

Title: Shadow of Yellow #art

by Iwona Jankowski, The Woodlands, Texas, United States   http://www.ijartstudio.com/theartist.htm

2.5" x 3.5" ACEO

I purchased 3 ACEO's yesterday off ebay. Something finally inspired me to buy... at $0.99 each it's difficult not to be inspired! I bought two by this artist, Iwona Jankowski, from Texas and one from Céu Palo from Brazil. All three ACEO's are prints. There was a time when I thought I had to have the original but the quality of prints these days is amazing. A local gallery here in Saint John sells ACEO prints for $15.00 each so at $0.99 a piece (plus a nominal shipping charge) these are a real steal.  

Shadow of Yellow 

Title: Wine Bottle

by Irina Akimova  

Title: My Cup Runeth Over #art

by Susan Anthony McKay  (Tampa, Florida)   http://www.paintingsbymckay.com/Page_4.html

My winning bid on this painting was $0.01 Title: End of Winter #art