Thursday, September 24, 2009

Not all I do is 1s and 0s


PAINTINGS:
So as you may or may not know I am coming into the homestretch of expecting a little girl. We already have all the furniture we need and the wife picked a color scheme of Pink/Fuscia and Black. She got some wonderful wall decals for one wall.
But, that was just one wall so we need to cover others, so the wife asked if I could contribute some artwork for our daughters room. I worked within the color range (for the most part though it's a bit more purple than pink) and came up with this cuddly little beast. I'll probably still tweak it, put a shadow underneath the critter and fix a couple little things but it's pretty much done. I'll also take a better photo once I find my camera charger, this is the iPhone but thought I'd share.


DETAIL

OTHER PAINTING THINGY:
So, also yesterday we picked up a couple little items. Down the street from us here is a Consignment furniture shop. It's called Consign Design, but that is not an invitation for you to go gank all the cool stuff I am now gonna look for. We have literally driven past it every day for the past 2 1/2 years and never gone in because most of the stuff we can see from the window is antiques, 80's contemporary etc... Not really my style and occasionally no style at all. But earlier this week they put a 60's orange lamp in the window so I figured I'd stop by and see how much it was. $250... way too much for me right now, but looking around the store I saw a couple other things and came back yesterday with the special lady, did some haggling with the very friendly salesman there, (thanks John) and walked away with this painting as well as 2 (original as I just discovered) cushion-less Burke chairs. All for a very respectable price. My only concern now is this... Who is the artist of this beaut'? And what do we name her, or do we just stick with calling her "Spanish Lady"? [again, iPhone pic, WHERE'S MY DAMN CHARGER!!! I've got a baby to take photos of soon!!!]

-Garrison

3 comments:

Randomguy0702 said...

for the painting you call "spanish lady", how about calling the painting "lady who looks vaguely like keira knightley but not a whole lot"?

Garrison Dean said...

Tempting, but then when she comes alive and walks out of the painting in the middle of the night I won't think to say "Oh shit honey, look! The Lady who looks vaguely like Keira Knightly but not a whole lot is coming to get us!!"

But so far it's all I have so you're on the leader board.

Agent Beryllium said...

SQUEEEE!

I love the umbrella monsters. They are ADORABLE.