Children’s art paintings are fun to look at.  They bring me good feelings.  I have had a lot of jobs the last couple of years buying children’s art to hang in various places.  I have enjoyed every single job.

I bought two children’s art posters for the children’s hospital to hang in one of their waiting area.  They were both from Maurice Sendak’s book Where the Wild Things Are.  I loved that book when I was a kid and this art brought back some good memories.

I found a Jim Daly children’s art print to frame and put in the physical therapy lounge at a local rehabilitation center.  They wanted to put together a friendly feeling place that would help keep kids entertained.  I put the painting where parents can read.

I was asked to hang children’s art along a long hallway in a home I was decorating.  I thought that this was an odd request because there weren’t any kids living there and the home had a very stark and cold feel to it.  It was definitely the minimalist style this homeowner had that left me puzzled.

The children’s art paintings that I ended up choosing for the hallway were all from the same artist.  The artist specialized in mini paintings and they were all so simple and beautiful.  They actually fit with the owner’s style.  I had each painting put into a simple frame with no matting and hung them all along the long hallway.

I actually liked this artist so much that I purchased twice as many children’s art paintings than I needed to complete the hallway job.  I plan to give these paintings as gifts to people that I know with either a child or a whimsical spirit.  I even liked the artist’s name, Lollipop Art.

I was asked to add some decorations to a family’s daughter’s room.  The family was extremely active and bicycling seemed to be the primary family exercise.  I thought it would be fun to find some children’s art painting that depicting cycling in a fun way.  I found an acrylic signed by the artist of a woman on a bike with a child and a yellow balloon.

I had a client call me asking about buying a children’s art painting by artist Stephanie Bauer.  The painting was called Dragonfly.  I did find the painting and also found that it was not for sale.  Fortunately, there is a fine art print made from this painting.  My client was more than happy to purchase the print and have it framed in an extremely nice frame.  It hangs in her daughter’s room now.  She loves it because it is pink!

I was hired to find a painting for the waiting room at a local dance studio.  I found that all of the classes were for children, so I looked for a children’s art painting to hang there.  I found one called Little Girl Ballerinas.  It was very colorful and whimsical.  The owner of the studio loved it.

I was hired to redecorate three girls’ bedroom.  The family had three daughters that all wanted children’s art paintings on their walls.  Each had a distinct personality and interests that didn’t overlap with the other two.  The first girl received an acrylic painting called Sports Girls.  This sister is the one that is very athletic.

The next sister is very interested in entomology.  She is very shy and quiet.  I found a children’s art painting for her that she really liked.  I could buy the actual watercolor from Pily Torres, so I bought a reproduction that looked great after it was framed.

The third sister was completely immersed into dancing.  I found a gorgeous children’s art painting of a folk art ballerina that had several different pinks in it.  It looked great without a frame and she was really happy with it.

The most recent job I had wanted something really unique.  They wanted a children’s art painting, but they were more interested in an extremely large mural.  I found one that the family really liked that depicted a fantasy scene.  It looks like there is a castle in the background and a unicorn in the foreground is leaping.  I liked what it added to the room, it was the perfect choice.

I’ve been buying paintings of food and wine to resell to restaurants.  I make a good profit doing this. I have a real talent for matching the painting of food and wine to the restaurant that should hang it in their dining room.  I have purchased over one hundred paintings so far and I’ve sold over eighty of them to restaurant owners.

I sold a painting of food and wine to a martini bar that was opening up in a neighboring city.  I took a photo of the Michael Godard painting called Pop Olive and took it straight to the owner in person.  He loved the painting and hung it in his bar.

The Michael Godard paintings always seem to resell the best of all of the food and wine paintings that I buy.  There was one called Olives Gone Wild that I sold to a martini bar on the East Coast.  The restaurant owner thought it was fantastic and looked fun.

I saw an awesome painting in the food and wine section of a local studio.  The painting was called Chocolatey.  I bought the painting and have approached a couple of candy stores to purchase it.  I haven’t gotten a taker, yet, but I’m going to keep trying.

There is a pie shop in my town that I sold an original oil painting of an oversized apple.  There are always a lot of food and wine paintings at the galleries I frequent.  I liked the apple painting and also bought a sunflower painting by the same artist.

I bought an acrylic painting from an artist in North Hollywood.  His painting called Passion Splash is categorized as a food and wine painting because the woman in the painting is drinking red wine.  I sold it to a wine bar in Miami.  I was sad to see that huge eyed woman go.

I bought several food and wine paintings from him on that trip.  One of the paintings was entitled For a Perfect Cherry and I decided to keep that one and hang it in my dining room.  The red in the painting is fantastic and so beautiful.  I liked to display this food and wine painting with a spotlight on it.

I was able to resell a food and wine painting to a fish shop in New York City.  The fish shop had an upscale clientele and they wanted to put some artwork on the walls of the lobby.  I found an original oil painting by Marie M. Vlasic of a lobster.  It was such a good food and wine painting and it looked at home in the fish shop.

There was a dessert shop owner in Denver that contacted me and asked me to keep an eye out for food and wine paintings that featured pears.  She had developed several pear recipes that were fast becoming her signature dishes and she wanted to address that with the art hanging in her establishment.

I found a lovely oil on wood food and wine painting of four pears on a glass table.  The artist paints a new painting every day.  I commissioned him to make me six more paintings of pears and then I sold all seven to the dessert shop owner that had contacted me.  She was thrilled with the pieces and invited me to visit sometime.

I have a friend that owns a local beer joint.  I immediately thought of him when I was on a buying trip for food and wine paintings.  I saw an oil painting on stretched canvas that featured a close-up of an unopened bottle of beer.  It was perfect for him.  I bought it and it still hangs at the end of his bar.

My little sister was redecorating her shop and I found a great original oil food and wine painting.  The artist’s subject was a large spoon and strawberry jam.  The piece looked delicious!  I gave it to her shop and she hung it in the area that she sells gourmet jams.

Musical themed paintings can be fun to find and fun to buy.  I have a musician friend that recently purchased a new home.  She bought new furnishings and asked me to find a new painting for her.  I found her a fabulous creation by Osnat.  It was an enormous, gallery size painting.

My friend’s new furnishings were very contemporary and the Osnat musical themed painting I bought for her was breathtaking when all five parts were mounted.  The musical staff ran the length of the painting with musical notes painted on it.  The painting had pretty shades of yellows and oranges.  It looked so elegant.

I found a still life musical themed painting of a guitar to buy for a friend.  He always has had beautiful pieces of art in his home and he wanted to change some of the pieces he had grown tired of.  The abstract piece that I found really struck a cord with my friend and he ended up buying another painting from the same artist.

I found a painting that was called Music of Fire that didn’t really seem to have a musical theme.  I showed it to a friend and she told me that the flames looked like they were dancing.  She told me that I was using a very narrow definition of musical themed paintings when I was buying art.

Abstract guitars really seem to be my favorite musical themed paintings.  I like to buy them when they jump out at me.  There is an artist named Slazo that is very prolific with his musical themed guitar paintings.  He has had a lot of exhibitions in Florida.

A friend of mine asked me to find artwork by an Armenian named Aram Koupetzian.  I was able to find a musical themed painting called Rondo by this artist.  It was really intriguing.  I’ve never purchased a painting in the Cubist style before.  The exact style of this musical themed painting was Synthetic Cubism.  I liked it a lot.  There is a lot to look at in the painting.

A couple of years ago, a good friend of mine graduated from the University of Texas in Austin with a degree.  He had a double major of music and education.  He got a job as an assistant band director at a middle school in Austin.  As a combination graduation and new job present, I bought him a musical themed painting.

The musical themed painting that I chose was painting by Tilo Rothacker that depicted a jazz musician playing a trumpet.  It was so very colorful and it felt a lot like New Orleans.  My friend and I had visited the French Quarter several times together.  This musical themed painting celebrated his life changes and our friendship perfectly.

My younger sister is quite the accomplished violinist.  She moved to New York and went to Juilliard.  Her path changed after a couple of years in New York.  She stopped pursuing the violin as a career, but her love for her music never waned.  I bought her a musical themed painting when she bought her apartment.  It was a contemporary abstract with brilliant rich jewel tones that depicted a woman violinist.

I was looking for musical themed paintings one day when I found Melody of Sunset for sale.  I’m not sure why this painting bothered me so much.  The woman was playing the piano, but she seems disembodied and strange.  Her eyes were closed.  This musical themed painting just did not strike a cord with me and I did not buy it.

My favorite musical themed painting in a long time was The Sound of Jazz.  It was painted by Sarah Kinan and it is gorgeous.  It is hard for me to not smile when I’m looking into this painting.  The background looks like confetti and the foreground is filled with musical instruments.  This musical themed painting can be described as feeling like a party.

I have been buying modern oil paintings for a show in my gallery.  I have found many nice pieces.  I found a painting called Village in winter in a private collection in Illinois.  The artist was Fern Isabel Coppedge and she was an American.  I liked the piece because of the snowy scene.  It reminded me of my childhood.

While on a buying trip, I found Clouds Over Buckingham.  This was a really nice modern oil painting that was in a private collection in Pennsylvania.  I have seen work by this artist before and it always resells very well.

Buying modern oil paintings has taken me to various places across the United States.  I especially liked Main Line, Pennsylvania.  That is where I acquired Leaning Silo.  The artist of Leaning Silo was Arthur Meltzer.  I had been previously unfamiliar with him.

I enjoyed my trip to Long Island City.  I was buying modern oil paintings and found one from a French artist named Georges Antoine Rochegrosse that I really liked.  This painting was painted around 1900 and it was full of flowers.  I really liked it and think it will do well in the show.

I find that I can buy modern oil paintings very efficiently on the internet.  I found an art dealer in the United Kingdom that finds me some very nice items to show.  Recently, he sent me a painting of a nude beauty by British artist Allan Douglas Davidson.

The modern oil painting depicted a young Bohemian woman wearing only flowers in her hair.  She also has large gold earrings. She is posed against a dark background which highlights the perfection of her creamy skin.

The still life I recently acquired was so amazingly real looking.  This was one of the most beautiful modern oil paintings that I’ve found.  The detail was exceptional and the representation of the blooming rose was breathtaking.

I was so lucky when I found an original Max Ernst modern oil painting.  The title of the piece I found was Arizona Desert.  I really think it will do well in my show and I didn’t even pay half of what I think it is really worth.  It will make a great addition to someone’s collection.

I found a modern oil painting by the Spanish artist Grifoll that I liked.  I’m not sure how well this painting of a clown will sell, but I liked it and I think that there is bound to be someone who just can’t live without it.

I just adore paintings that depict Paris.  I don’t even care about the period or the style.  I was able to find a really nice modern oil painting by Edouard Cortes for my show.  The painting depicts flower vendors and a horse carriage.  I almost feel like I’m in turn of the century Paris when I look into it for a long time.

There are a lot of modern oil paintings that depict roses.  I plan to have a grouping of several at my show.  I was able to buy a painting by Theresa Bernstein called Roses that she painted in the 1940s.  She lived to be 111 years old and that is pretty amazing.

A popular theme among modern oil paintings is nautical.  I really do not like nautical paintings and don’t want them in my show.  I have had several friends implore me to change my mind.  I keep being told that I can’t possibly have a show of modern oil paintings that does not include a ship.

I had an assistant bring in a modern oil painting that had an interesting history.  It was more because of the history of the painting that I decided to hang it than because of its content.  The ship scene was really not to my liking, but I bought it anyway.

I have been looking for an antique street scene painted by Bettylane Resnik.  I saw a modern oil painting by her in an art catalog that depicted a really colorful street scene.  I can’t seem to find the current owner, but I’m trying.  I think that it would complete my show.

Mixed media art auctions have a lot to offer.  Today I found several seriolithographs.  I liked the colors that the Polish artist Zamy Steynovitz used.

The fun part of mixed media art auctions is that you just never know what you’ll find.  I found a pebble art piece from the 1960’s that featured a bare-chested chariot driver cracking a whip.  The piece also had three horses.  The medium of pebbles was very interesting.

Another interesting find while I was looking through mixed media art auctions was a mirrored wall hanging that represents the Manhattan skyline.  This piece was made before the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings and they are represented in the piece.

Sometimes the medium used in mixed media art is the same as other categories of art.  I found a nice acrylic painting in a mixed media art auction that was unusual because of its subject.  The artist painted a red sea dragon with a lovely woman.  I learned that the artist was influenced by Salvador Dali, HP Lovecraft and his love of the game Dungeons and Dragons.

I found a really pretty 3-D art collage shadowbox while I was looking through the mixed media art auctions.  The title of the piece was True Confessions of a Mermaid Gone Bad.  The piece was listed as professionally framed art with glass in yellow stained wood.

Mixed media art auctions bring so many different artistic styles to light.  I found a Scandinavian inspired design of two peacocks on a hand stitched wall hanging.  The piece was surrounded by a decorative border and the frame was reported to be in great condition.

Sometimes the mixed media art auctions include artistic things like hand made cards.  I found an artist that lists auctions of greeting card collages.  The ones that I was looking at used vintage images, ink and extremely decorative paper.

There was an item of art that came up in my searches of mixed media art auctions that I really liked.  It was listed as a beautiful abstract tin art.  It was actually quite impressive and was listed as measuring two feet by two and a half feet.  I think this would actually look great on my mother-in-law’s wall.

So many of the paintings I found listed in the mixed media art auctions were just unusual versions of mainstream subjects.  I have found so many art auctions with poppies painted on canvas, but today I found a white poppy painted in oil with a brilliant emerald green background.  It was very striking and I think that the contemporary feel to this piece came across very well.

I had never considered vintage maps to be art before I found them in the mixed media art auctions.  I guess when a map becomes antique and is no longer useful for its original intended purpose, it can become art.  I found a listing for battle maps that was very intriguing.  This map would look good framed and displayed with other war related memorabilia.

Mixed media art auctions really do have a lot of different kinds of art represented.  I found an artist with items listed whose medium is purses.  She makes purses from cigar boxes and solders a handle and various embellishments on the side.  The purses are really quite delightful.

I have a love for Asian botanical paintings.  I’ve been seeking them out for a long time.  I have many in my collection and love each and every one of them.

The first Asian botanical painting that I bought was Vietnamese.  It was one of a series of twelve paintings that I bought that were created by Vu Viet Hung.  I have them all over my home.

These oil landscapes by Vu Viet Hung are stunning.  These Asian botanical paintings really set a serene tone in my home.  The subtleties of the colors and the simple themes go so well on my walls.

I found a lovely Asian botanical painting quite by chance at a yard sale.  I don’t usually make a habit of looking for paintings at yard sales, but this one was displayed out front and enticed me to stop.  At first glance, I thought I was looking at a painting of a palm tree.  At closer inspection, I found that the painting was of a bonsai tree.

My office has a more contemporary feel than the rest of my house.  I have found that I like to have an abstract Asian botanical painting to ponder while I am thinking.  I searched for a long time to find just the right piece to hang there.  I finally found a piece by an artist named Soniei called Enlightenment.

Soniei has a collection called the New Zen Sho Collection.  I love his work.  The abstract that I bought is considered an Asian botanical painting because it features bamboo.  In addition to the bamboo, there is beautiful calligraphy.

I have my eye on another Asian botanical painting by Soniei that has shades of sea-foam green.  It is much more subdued than the one I bought called Enlightenment.  This one is called Self-awareness and it is just lovely.  It is another painting of bamboo.

My mother-in-law admires the Asian botanical paintings that I find.  I found one that I really liked at a gallery in Hartford while I was on vacation.  It did not fit with my home and so I bought it for her.  She has really enjoyed it.  It features two flowering trees in acrylic on two panels.  The painting really is stunning with all of the shades of red.  It looks great in her house.

My husband isn’t as big a fan of Asian botanical paintings as I am.  They just don’t speak to him.  He has allowed me to hang one painting in his office because he approved of the color scheme.  The Asian botanical painting he chose for me to hang for him was a black and white.

Our daughter loves watercolor Asian botanical paintings on fabric.  She keeps her eye out for advertisements in our local paper for people selling them.  She has already purchased three.  She is well on her way to her own collection.

Bamboo is the most popular subject in Asian botanical paintings.  I have found so many paintings in so many different mediums that all feature bamboo.  I catch myself buying so many paintings that I’ve started giving them as gifts for friends and family for house warming gifts.

My sister recently bought a condo and I gave her an Asian botanical painting of happy birds and bamboo.  She liked the watercolor and asked me to find her two more to hang throughout her home.  I was able to find several more at the same shop that were created by the same artist.

The other Asian botanical paintings were of snow bamboo in moonlight and green bamboo.  I’ll keep checking back at that store for new paintings.  She said that she could probably use one or two more.

I am planning to redecorate my kitchen.  I do not like the French Country décor that the previous owner chose.  I would prefer that my kitchen reflect my personality better.  I will absolutely need an Asian botanical painting hung prominently in my kitchen. 

I have the perfect Asian botanical painting in mind already.  It is a nice Chinese painting that was done on rice paper with ink, water and color.  It is mounted with nice silk border by an expert and is ready to frame.

I’ve been watching yellow paintings at an online auction site.  I wonder where these yellow paintings will end up hanging.  There were twenty bids on a painting of yellow daffodils.  It was really pretty.

I really liked the painting titled Red Flowers Yellow Ochre Morning.  It came in three panels that were each 20”X16”.  The picture online showed the painting above a bed and it just looked so clean and crisp.  The medium for this painting was acrylic.

The smallest paintings that I found were on a panel bracelet.  The paintings were of Indian and Near Eastern rulers.  The paintings were put in an openwork gold frame set with seed pearls.  This piece was created in the early twentieth century.

Another yellow painting that I liked was Yellow World by Karen Khachaturov.  There were a lot of contrasting yellows in it.  I could see yellow lemons and a beautiful yellow flower.  The lemons were painted so realistically.  This artist has paintings hanging in private galleries in over 40 countries.

I can only imagine that the oil painting of yellow roses by an unknown artist will hang in a lovely home.  The painting has a nice quality to it.  The petals of the yellow roses in the painting seemed to reach out as if they were still alive

There was a nice painting that had twenty bidders that was of a vase of yellow daffodils.  The feel of the painting was that of one of the masters in impressionist art.  The artist listed the item herself and she is also a poet and songwriter.  I can close my eyes and see that painting hanging in someone’s formal parlor.  It is so very elegant.

The future home of the French chic painting of yellow, lavender and pink roses must be that of a very feminine woman.  When I was looking at the painting, I could almost smell the roses.  I thought that the sale price of two hundred dollars was disappointing.  I think it should have sold for more.

My search for yellow paintings found a painting entitled Yellow Taking Over.  I don’t know why the artist titled his work like that.  There was some yellow in this collage, but not much.  The painting was done in 1956 by Nicholas Krushenick.  It came from the personal collection of a famous photographer that works for the Village Voice.  This would look good in someone’s law office.

I wish that I could have purchased the antique oil painting of exotic yellow flowers.  The auction said that it was painted in 1897.  The pictures made the painting look like it was in great shape for being over one hundred years old.  It would look good on the wall of my guest bedroom.

Artist Heidi Vaught had a listing for a painting she titled Ambiance numbered 10.  The painting had only one bidder and sold for the opening bid, one hundred dollars.  I think the winning bidder got quite a bargain.  This painting was abstract with lots of teal and yellow.

Another painting by Heidi Vaught went for sixty five dollars.  This was another bargain, if you ask me.  The painting was entitled Yellow Squared and it had a really dizzy feeling to it.  I liked it at first sight.

I have a friend that would have like the painting I found of a yellow cat.  It looked just like her cat.  The painting was an original acrylic contemporary painting in yellow ochre.  It would have complemented her modern furnishings.

Yellow roses make a wonderful subject.  I never tire of paintings of yellow roses.  My favorite recently was done by Joan Cobb Mayer.  The interpretation was stunning.

There was one other yellow rose oil painting that caught my eye recently.  This one was painted by Berniece Meyers.  The bloom extended to all sides of the canvas and the center seemed infinite.  I felt good after viewing it.