Don't Decorate, Curate.

You have to love a site whose motto is “Don’t Decorate, Curate”. Artwall Online gives me another reason to wish I had more wall space. You can scroll through adorable sketched rooms with spatterings of art hung on the wall, and you can click into each for more detail. There are some great finds with prints starting at $18, up to some paintings around $500.

Let the curation begin!

I Made An Art!

Last night my friend Amber hosted a sleepover for some of the girls. Is it still considered a slumber party when you’re all pushing 30? Anyway, she has a cute painting hanging in her living room that we all loved and we started talking about how easy it would be to make some of the paintings we see in stores. It reminded me of something I made a couple years ago which caused me to yell like a four year old “I MADE AN ART!"

For less than $10 I cobbled together a simple painting from items bought at AC Moore. I bought a plain canvas and a few of those acrylic stencil paints that you can get on sale for less than $1. I painted the canvas cream and let it dry, then stood above it and made concentric hearts with each color paint, squeezed straigh from the bottle. Complicated right? Admittedly I am no Picasso but it was super simple and cheap to create something that matched my décor and the technique (if you call it that) can be used in many variations.  It’s now hanging in my kitchen, which has become the land of misfit art.

Liz Likes... Parapluie. Oui Oui!

Take a gander at this print I found over at Oh Brooke. Purely Frenchy beautious. Book me a flight to Charles De Gaulle s'il vous plaît.

I Fell In Love With A Sandwich

I fell head over heels in love with a 7.5″x 10″ oil on linen painting of a PB&J sandwich.

A few years ago I stumbled across Duane Keiser’s website: A Painting A Day. He paints the most ordinary and fantastic things like a cupcake, chocolate covered cherries, a lollipop. eggs, onion, lemon slices, and wax lips!

You can now buy a print of PB&J, and believe me I’ve thought about it. But one day, I want the real thing. Or a kitchen wall covered in his little gems. Or if I’m really lucky, this beauty.

For the record, he does paint more than food.