Door-to-door Art Salesmen
Claire
Or women, come to that, as the last was a young french female student who
probably shouldn't have been out knocking on doors on her own at night.
Are they a big scam then? Does anyone know? I'm a real sucker for them
because I hate prints. I do realise that these are not truly 'original'
because, as she said herself, they paint 6 versions each of their paintings
over 3 months and then spend the rest of their year over here selling those
paintings up and down the country. I'd rather have something hand painted of
which there might be 5 (or 50, whatever) others in the country than your
standard Ikea print that everyone has. But even so, I can't help but feeling
that the whole thing is a lot dodgy. Googling hasn't produced anything much
on the topic though.
Plus, is it a recent thing that everyone has been experiencing over the last
12 months or so or is it just the area we've moved into is more of a target
area than where we used to live? Certainly here we're getting a daily wodge
of flyers for cleaners, housekeepers, ironing services, personal trainers,
people who will stencil your walls for you, wheelie bin cleaners etc etc that
we never used to get in our semi.
Claire
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timr
"Claire" <per...@mcc.ac.uk> wrote in message
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Get a black mamba.
Ken Johnson
> I'd rather have something hand painted of
> which there might be 5 (or 50, whatever)
> others in the country than your standard
> Ikea print that everyone has.
Paint your own, perhaps?
Ken Johnson
Claire
Haven't got an artistic bone in my body. I've taken a few photos that I
think are arty and everyone else I've shown them too just thinks they're
crap.
I've done some crossstitch in my time (art by maths) and I've got some of
those on the wall, and some watercolours that friends and family have
painted. But the most arty I get are those kits where you get a black piece
of cardboard with lines on and you scrape off the black to leave bits of
silver showing through. Scrape it by numbers, or something. And even they
look pants.
dave...@ukmisc.org.uk
There are plenty of small galleries round Manc desperately trying to
seel stuff for artists.
Art schools have shows at end of year where you can buy stuff by
somebody who might be famous one day, just coz you like it.
And "Clare In The Community" originals are only 70 nicker (more for the
new colour ones)
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Claire
>> > I'd rather have something hand painted of
>> > which there might be 5 (or 50, whatever)
>> > others in the country than your standard
>> > Ikea print that everyone has.
>>
>> Paint your own, perhaps?
>
>There are plenty of small galleries round Manc desperately trying to
>seel stuff for artists.
Any galleries I've ever been into I've passed out at the prices for *prints*
and then left. I cannot understand paying 200+ for a photocopy in a pretty
frame!
>Art schools have shows at end of year where you can buy stuff by
>somebody who might be famous one day, just coz you like it.
I've just realised that ebay is a source for this too. Although the ones
I liked have (I suspect) very high reserves.
>And "Clare In The Community" originals are only 70 nicker (more for the
>new colour ones)
How big? That sounds like a lot for a not-all-*that*-famous cartoon!
These oil paintings, mostly modern, that I've been buying I've paid between
75 & 200 quid for, but they're between 2 and 4' wide (as a rough indication
of size) and the more expensive ones are already mounted (although so badly
damaged at the edges from handling, in some cases, that I've had them framed
anyway).
Evpuneq Erivf
> I've taken a few photos that I
> think are arty and everyone else I've shown them too just thinks they're
> crap.
Goes for art generally. I walked through the Louvre and decided that were
it to fall into my possession about 95% of it would be right for the
bonfire.
Just put things on the wall that you like* and screw everyone else.
Personally I like things that with form determined by function, so it's
mainly things like processor-through-electron-microscope and
topology-of-a-complex-network (in this case a plot of the AT&T network,
with interconnections in different colours by type, which is surprisingly
pretty).
*Preferably paintings and whatnot, chocolate and some musician might get
you more odd looks than you can deal with.
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>> Paint your own, perhaps?
uk.misc JFIF collage ?
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"Claire" <per...@mcc.ac.uk> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> "Ken Johnson" <kenneth.j...@SPAMblueyonder.co.uk>
writes:
> >
> >"Claire" <per...@mcc.ac.uk> wrote in message
> >news:c03l1d$1pgg$1...@fiasco.xenopsyche.net...
> >
> >> I'd rather have something hand painted of
> >> which there might be 5 (or 50, whatever)
> >> others in the country than your standard
> >> Ikea print that everyone has.
> >
> >Paint your own, perhaps?
>
> Haven't got an artistic bone in my body.
Neither have most artists as far as can see.
timr
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> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, timr wrote:
>
> > Get a black mamba.
>
> Kraits are far more deadlier.
>
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"Alex Buell" <alex....@munted.org.uk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, timr wrote:
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> >
> > "Alex Buell" <alex....@munted.org.uk> wrote in message
> > news:Pine.LNX.4.58.04...@slut.local.munted.org.uk...
> > > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, timr wrote:
> > >
> > > > Get a black mamba.
>
> > > http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat-Number-2238307-fpart-5.html
>
> > C@nt
>
> Twat.
>
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dave...@ukmisc.org.uk
> These oil paintings, mostly modern, that I've been buying I've paid between
> 75 & 200 quid for, but they're between 2 and 4' wide (as a rough indication
> of size) and the more expensive ones are already mounted (although so badly
> damaged at the edges from handling, in some cases, that I've had them framed
> anyway).
Well, find a non-city-centre gallery and you'll find loads of stuff by
local artists in a variety of media for those kind of prices, much
already framed.
Admittedly a lot of it's pants...
Shereen
> Or women, come to that, as the last was a young french female student who
> probably shouldn't have been out knocking on doors on her own at night.
>
> Are they a big scam then? Does anyone know? I'm a real sucker for them
> because I hate prints.
If you ever find yourself in Dublin, take a walk around Merrion
Square[1] of a Sunday. Last time BF and I did that I impulse bought
a pastels landscape by a local guy[2]. I'd really have liked one of
the huge West Coast series pics, but I wasn't sure my house had a
wall big enough.
> Certainly here we're getting a daily wodge of flyers for cleaners,
> housekeepers, ironing services, personal trainers, people who will
> stencil your walls for you, wheelie bin cleaners etc etc that
> we never used to get in our semi.
We only get the wheelie bin cleaners leaflets through the letter box
of our semi.
Shereen
[1] http://www.dublintourist.com/Info.cgi/boule001.shtml
[2] http://homepage.eircom.net/~simonmeyler/page5.html
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