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Linda Stamberger

Linda Stamberger, author of "Antiquing In Florida", is a Florida expert and freelance writer of many genres. Visit this site to read her articles - some of which are available for purchase - as is her book.


Brooks Novelty Antiques and Records

Brooks Novelty is an all-vinyl record store. We specialize in: jukeboxes, vintage soda machines, antique slot machines, pin balls, arcade games, neon clocks and signs, rare concert posters, old advertising signs and much more!


The Antique Company

Established in the late 1900's, we occupy a huge corner building with a small garden area that leads to another 1000 sq foot store (called TAC) that contains our Mid Century collection.


Vintage Westclox

Westclox photo identification gallery and history and information of clocks, watches and other timepieces. This site primarily displays American clocks made by Westclox that were made from the early 1900's up to about the 1960's.


Antique Appraisals On-Line

We are one of the country's largest, oldest, most qualified and respected appraisal services. The majority of our appraisals are estate and personal property evaluations for valuation documentation purposes. However, we have evaluated goods and personal property for natural disaster losses (hurricanes), theft, fire, freight and shipping damage after the loss has occurred.


Connoisseur Antiques

Featuring fine antique furniture, Connoisseur Antiques is a Los Angeles Antique Furniture Showroom specializing in antique clocks and mirrors, European and French antiques, Antique Lighting, Chandeliers, Sconces, Armoires and much more.


Liz's Antique Hardware

Antique Hardware is the backbone of our business. We offer a complete selection of door, window and furniture hardware, lighting and accessories circa 1890 to 1970.


San Francisco Antique and Design Mall

San Francisco Antique and Design Mall is the largest antique mall in northern California. We opened our doors in October 1997 with 75 dealers and today we have over 200 of San Francisco's most professional antique specialists.


Ambiance Antiques

Importer of 18th and 19th Century French Antiques


C'est La Vie Antiques

European Antique and Accessories in San Diego, CA.


Lang Antiques

We carry a large selection of fine antique jewelry, antique rings & antique engagement rings. We also have vintage estate jewelry, vintage estate rings & vintage estate engagement rings from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Edwardian & Art Deco style periods.


Once in a Blue Moon Online Thrift Store

We are an online thrift store featuring new, used, and unusual items.


Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Painting upside down is a method applied by artist exhibiting in Wirral - wirralnews.co.uk

Painting upside down is a method applied by artist exhibiting in Wirral - wirralnews.co.uk

PAINTING upside down is one of the methods used by an artist who is exhibiting her work in Wirral.

Beautiful landscape oil paintings are being brought to the borough by artist Jo Jenkins.

To help achieve the desired effect in her paintings, the retired art teacher applies a plaster based white paint called gesso to build up layers to create texture and depth in her ethereal, atmospheric scenes.Š

Jo’s inspiration comes from her travels, and this particular exhibition has scenes taken from drawings she has made from her visits to Ness Gardens, Kent and Woldgate in east Yorkshire.

Her work, entitled Exhibition of Landscape Paintings, is now on display at Dee Fine Arts in Heswall until June 30.

Jo told the News: “There are 12 paintings in the exhibition and they have a landscape theme.

“I use gesso because it has great drying qualities and it builds up layers on canvas before I paint. Some marks can be made accidentally and suggest ways in which I can work with oil paint.

“My drawings are very loose and I often paint upside down so the balance of the shapes are pleasing to me.

“I work on five or six paintings at the same time so it gives me time to come back to a painting and look at it in a different way. It can take a long time until I know it is finished.

“I visited Ness Gardens the other month and went to the bottom end and did some drawings, then painted from those.

“I love painting and I have more time since I retired four years ago.”

Jo has always painted throughout her career, which has evolved to taking an interest in landscapes.

Jo, from Chester, added: “In the past I have done abstract paintings but I fancied a change and began doing landscapes. At times I dip here and there to do different things.

“I am always inspired by seeing other art exhibitions, the last one was David Hockney’s in London.”

The gallery is open from 9.30am-5pm, Monday-Saturday to view Jo’s work.


Source: www.wirralnews.co.uk

Nude Harper painting sells for $5,000 - Edmonton Sun
Maggie Sutherland
Artist Maggie Sutherland sits in front of her painting Emperor Haute Couture, a nude portrait of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, May 18, 2012. The painting is hanging in the Kingston Public Library. (Elliot Ferguson/QMI Agency)

KINGSTON, ONT. -- The nude painting of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Kingston artist Maggie Sutherland sold for its asking price on the weekend.

The painting, Emperor Haute Couture, depicted a naked Harper reclining on a chaise lounge. Behind him is a row of men, and one woman, in suits.

Sutherland's painting, a recreation of Manet's 1863 painting Olympia. sold for $5,000.

The painting was the centre of a brief media storm late last week with newspapers, television stations and magazines asking about it.

Sutherland said she and her art dealer fielded inquiries from as far away as South Africa and the painting was even the subject of a report by CNN's Erin Burnett.

“I think it was almost a perfect storm in terms of timing and media coverage,” Sutherland said Tuesday.

“Probably they picked it up because Harper was meeting with Obama.”

Harper was in Chicago on the weekend attending a NATO summit.

Sutherland said the winning offer was the first full asking price bid her dealer received.

“My dealer is too classy to engage in a bidding war. Unfortunately, this is not the real estate market,” she joked.

Interest in Sutherland's painting was so great on the weekend that her website crashed.

By Tuesday, Sutherland was back in her studio.

When asked what she would do to top the interest in Emperor Haute Couture, Sutherland said her next work would not be as controversial.

“Although I'm not a good judge anymore of what ticks people off.”


Source: www.edmontonsun.com

ANC miscalculating the value of Zuma painting - Beeld

Certain individuals are exploiting the situation wilfully to get at the judiciary and the media.

And of course to fire up the racial weapon. What else is left for the ANC in view of its miserable failings?

They should just have ignored the painting. Nobody outside art circles would have paid it much attention. But no, they are exploiting it. THEY are the guilty ones.

Initially, when seeing the painting as depicted here and in the papers, it made no real impression. The featureless, bespectacled face actually did not even remind of Jacob Zuma.

After having been reminded of it continuously, the image of the painting starts to stir for an interpretation. It becomes problematic not to see in one’s mind’s eye a very strong and damning impression of the leader of this country captured in that painting. The impression created by the painting now continues to grow like weed. Rather not take it further. Let everyone make up their own minds.

The message embodied in the painting is POWERFUL and will grow in potency as time unfolds. Much like a zipper unfolding. Sorry, but the ANC and the dishonest exploitation of the situation will backfire.

People will not change their opinions because of marches, threats and court cases. NO. The image of the painting has taken hold in our minds (supporters and non-supporters of the ANC/government) and what it symbolizes will remain and now grow in intensity.

The buyer of the painting can of course now look forward to a hefty profit. And the laughter one imagines the whole episode has caused worldwide will not do this country's image much good.

Sometimnes one can just shake your head in unbelief.

This morning it was made an issue on one of the public radio stations that the same fire and eagerness behind the attack on the painting are absent in some other far more serions and immediate problems and threats like the unavailability of text books in schools.

Makes you think.


Source: www.news24.com

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