After a long time of loving abstract art (still do), I am branching out into portraits/pictures with people in them. I'd love to find some oil paintings, but have searched the thrift stores around here in vain.
These two portraits are in Erin from
Design Crisis's house. Are you reading Design Crisis? Because it is an excellent excellent super excellent blog. I lurrrve her house. (She just had a baby like a week ago, so she hasn't posted much lately, but I am obsessed with her house, so I will wait (im)patiently until she posts again.)
This one is also from Design Crisis; you've probably seen this one all over Pinterest and blogland:
Kristen Panitch Interiors:
An enormous portrait of President Harrison in the first episode of Secrets From A Stylist:
Emily Henderson's home office:
Pretty girl in a straw boater in Katie Rosenfeld's house:
Plum Cushion's workroom:
Ideas on where to find these awesome pieces of art?
Thrift stores can be treasure troves of original oil portraits - I've had a lot of luck with them.
ReplyDeleteYes, thrift stores. Vintage shops. I've seen lots of cool ones. I always thought it would be weird to have a portrait of someone I don't know, but this post has me seeing that in a whole different way. Really like these images you've found.
ReplyDeleteLove these! So random but Melanie of plum cushion is a really good friend of mine.
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