my own little art gallery

We've finally put up some much needed pictures on our ugly, plain walls.

The small pictures have been up for awhile but I had this huge space above my piano which featured ugly black marks, scratches, and badly filled holes where previous tenants had hung pictures. I found this huge picture at a church swap. At the time I thought I would paint over it with my own design, but I actually quite like it. The green chair in the corner is one I found on the tree lawn and stripped and refinished for my (now non-existing) piano students.


This wall now features my own works of art. I painted the barn picture a year ago after Mark got me paints, brushes, and canvas for Christmas. Ever since, I have been collecting old, used canvases from the tree lawn and picking them up at Joanns during sales.




The tree picture was found on the tree lawn--it was a painting of some couple with a very bright purple background. it took quite a bit of paint to cover that up! I started last year during fall (I wanted to have those bright, fall colors in my house forever) and finally finished it this week! I don't really know how to paint so when I started it, I got frustrated and left it down in the basement until just last Sunday night. The canoe painting I started and finished last night. although this morning when I went to hang it, I didn't realize it was still a little wet so I have some nice fingerprint smudges I need to fix on it now.


Obviously I'm no pro, but I love seeing my own stuff on the wall. It makes our home feel so much homier. What do you think??

On a related note, I'm going to try to take a pottery class in April. Any Clevelanders want to join me? They are in the evening for 2 hours for 8 weeks. $135 per course.