Art, Paper, Prints and Painting

Whether you are an artist or a collector you need to protect your art. Not just from theft, but from fire, water damage, light, heat, damp etc.  Art works come in many forms, from stone, metal, canvas, paper, plastic, fabric, ceramic, glass, plastic and combinations of all those.  Metal and stone my be left outside but then you need to think about security. Is it on a solid surface and won't topple over? Can it easily be lifted and therefore "lifted"? Glass and ceramics also need to be on a solid surface to avoid risk of breakage and damage. Either put them in a display case or keep them away from children, dogs, cats and all clumsy adults.  Works on canvas, paintings, paper art including photography should be correctly attached to a wall to avoid falling. A light painting will suffer damage to the stretcher and could tear if it falls even a short distance.  If your works are very valuable they should also be screwed to the wall and not just hung. Man...

I have created a new section in my Etsy shop. It's " Vintage" . It's for the Retro boxes that I've made. The boxes are covered in old French countryside maps and lined with reproductions from a turn of the century French geography school book. I will be adding more over the next few days. They are a lot of fun to make and I am also planning on using illustrations from an old book called   'Les Capitales du Monde" printed in 1892 in France by Hachette & Cie.  You can check out whats on offer  here

The latest paintings to leave the studio. 'Three Weeks in Autumn' is a triptych which I painted over the past two years. Based on the impression I had each time I drove up the road to the house in autumn. The painting on the left is Week I, autumn just beginning, still lots of green but yellows and red creeping in. Week II in the middle, autumn progressing so more reds and yellow, less green and finally Week III on the right, few greens more yellow and red and brown too as the leaves wither and die. I also wanted to give the feeling of the wind blowing the leaves about and up in the air. I am pleased that the paintings are going to a home with a big wall as each measures 60x60 cm, so a total width of 180cm.  The new owners are planning on putting the tree together of course in their living room where they can look at them each day and hopefully get a lot of pleasure.  See more of my work

The Index of Economic Freedom was first formulated by Adam Smith in 1776.  The idea is to track the economic freedom of  the world measuring liberty, property rights, business freedom, prosperity, trade, fiscal, monetary & economic freedom and so forth using 10 references.  The top five Free countries are as follows: Hong Kong Singapore Australia New Zealand Switzerland Mostly Free: The UK  - 14 The USA - 10 Ireland - 9 Sweden - 21 Moderately Free:  Kazakhstan - 65 France - 67 Jordan - 32 Norway - 40 Belgium - 38 Mostly Unfree: Italy - 92 China - 138 Greece - 119 Repressed: Iran - 171 Burma - 173 Argentina - 158 Cuba - 177 For a full list go to http://www.heritage.org/index/ranking

I have always loved Peony Roses. I think it's because my mother liked them and they bring back sentimental memories.  So one day in the supermarket I spotted a bunch of pink Peony roses for a few euros and I bought them thinking they might last a few days at most. In fact they lasted over a week and were a constant source of pleasure on my table.  I took some photographs because they were a beautiful colour and texture and I am very into textures of all sorts.  If you want to download these photographs feel free to do so but if you want high quality images, well, just ask and I'll send them to you. I like the ones with the unusual colours, it was a bit of fun with Photoshop. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. They could make nice screen savers.

I have added a new ACEO page to my web site . Got to  http://www.bluemoonart.net/bluemoonart/ACEO.html to check it out. I also put links to my Blog & Twitter. However I had problems trying to get the Facebook like link to work. Still I'll keep trying. Maybe Facebook doesn't like Twitter! 

New ACEO's on line for sale - $25 or €20 each. They look great framed and grouped together.  Postage worldwide: €5 for first and free for 2 - 5. One off and original oil painting, not reproductions. Contact me for more details. Lovely colours of blue turquoise and mauve with a coral motif. art@bluemoonart.net