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Title: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 10, 2013, 02:52:46 PM
Okay guys this is probably going to be the only painting I ever post but I am just curious about it. I cant read the sig on it though. Can anyone tell me who painted it?

(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0410131645_zpsa2b12543.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0410131646_zps60388dcb.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0410131646a_zpsff1fc920.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0410131646b_zps02dd711b.jpg)
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: frogpatch on April 10, 2013, 03:31:44 PM
It looks like a watercolor of a city in Europe. It may be a litho or a souvenir print. Have you looked at it with a loop or glass? It is impossible for me to tell in the picture. The horse and buggy and electric light bulb would date it in the early 20th century I would think.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: Rauville on April 10, 2013, 03:55:34 PM
Is that the Quebec Post Office in the background?
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 10, 2013, 04:04:55 PM
Haha well once you said that I googled it.... does this pic look familiar?

(http://www.photomediaservice.com/typo3temp/fl_realurl_image/foto-cote-de-la-montagne-with-post-office-21.jpg)
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: ghopper1924 on April 10, 2013, 04:10:27 PM
Your painting looks more like it's from the 1960s.

Sorry to say that it doesn't seem too well executed to me. :(
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 10, 2013, 04:24:08 PM
Yeah I have no idea about paintings. I try to stay away from them actually but It in an old storage locker
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: frogpatch on April 10, 2013, 05:21:04 PM
cmlindb really nailed this one with after Rauville recognized it. I think it is a print after a painting. Probably sold to tourists. Look for the telltale little dots in the color.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: mart on April 10, 2013, 07:29:30 PM
The original looks like a combination of pen and ink, watercolor and gesso ( white parts) !!  I have seen similar but can`t remember who it was !!
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 10, 2013, 07:40:08 PM
Hmmm I am very inexperienced with art but it looks like someone painted this. At least the white does.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 11, 2013, 02:47:34 AM
You,re probably correct,when you say someone painted this.....it was when they pushed the button of the printing machine...then afterwards, a few brush strokes are added...for realism... ;D ;D
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 11, 2013, 06:07:58 AM
That's my kind of artist..... lazy. haha I think its cool that I found exactly where it was painted from though.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 11, 2013, 06:24:26 AM
That's my kind of artist..... lazy. haha I think its cool that I found exactly where it was painted from though.
Pardon!!...stealing someone else,s thunder is punishable.by being forced to eat Potted Tripe...which for me would be a fate worse than death...I thought it was the man with the book stuck up his arse that found it... ;D ;D...No Mango,s for you this time...just this....enjoy.... ;D
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: Ipcress on April 11, 2013, 06:29:25 AM
God, that's really bad. A print with heightened white / body colour and it looks like they've been in an earthquake looking at the brush strokes !  ;D
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 11, 2013, 11:55:34 AM
Haha You guys are rude, it probably took some person a whole 4 minutes to paint that white part and try to sell it to some sucker thinking it was something special. I am going to make sure I take extra special care when I put this special piece in the bag of crap I'm donating.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: mart on April 11, 2013, 04:05:05 PM
Take a close up of the paper !!  Using gesso like that is pretty common for some water colorists to add texture to a flat painting !!  I agree it looks 60ish !!
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 11, 2013, 04:40:29 PM
just in case you don,t know what gesso is....

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gesso
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 11, 2013, 05:06:35 PM
Here is a couple more pics... close ups you asked for (sorry if not the best its a phone pic)

(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0411131902a_zps57df78c9.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0411131902a_zps57df78c9.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0411131901c_zpsf2e90b44.jpg)
(http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0411131901b_zps3ca1775f.jpg[img]
[img]http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae273/cmlindblom/0411131901a_zps923380a9.jpg)
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 11, 2013, 05:14:51 PM
I,ve seen better Painting by Numbers.... ;D
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 11, 2013, 05:24:23 PM
HAHAA this guy is either an 8 year old starting out his artist career or a complete genius... either way this has got to be worth thousands... and I think bigwull will be the first bidder... ill start it at $5,500 (by the way it really does look nice to me... you guys must have the art eye that I do not)
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: mart on April 12, 2013, 08:28:40 AM
Still couldn`t see the texture of the paper !! If the paper looks rough on an unpainted part it may be watercolor paper !!  Don`t know what size it is but I like the mixture of mediums and many artists use a similar method !! I have done similar method but I used acrylic on watercolor paper !!  Did one like that except different style of an Elk in woods,framed it and donated it to a local art group for fundraising auction !! Someone stole the darn thing before the auction date !! We still don`t know where it is hanging !!  You might try googling for mixed medium art of the place/building in your painting !!
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: Rauville on April 12, 2013, 08:41:00 AM
Check this one out:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-watercolor-art-1955-Quebec-Canada-Cityscape-Jacques-Schyrgens-/320996106031#ht_1089wt_910 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-watercolor-art-1955-Quebec-Canada-Cityscape-Jacques-Schyrgens-/320996106031#ht_1089wt_910)

..."By 1952 he was living and working in Old Quebec City, where he became a Canadian citizen. He painted numerous street scenes as decoration for the stately Chateau Frontenac as he was doing the same as his livelihood. Over a nine year period in Quebec City he produced hundreds of works, some of which were eventually sold through U.S. outlets."...
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 12, 2013, 09:20:51 AM
It is painted on a hard canvas or something.... That stinks that the painting got stolen.... never to be seen again
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: mart on April 12, 2013, 10:17:47 AM
I have a feeling I know where it went,,, he is not managing the group anymore !!~
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 12, 2013, 10:54:27 AM
It is painted on a hard canvas or something.... That stinks that the painting got stolen.... never to be seen again
Oh!!...but it has been seen.....Just not by Mart!! ;D
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: cmlindb on April 12, 2013, 11:09:08 AM
I guess your right hahaha Think of it this way. Someone wanted it so bad they stole it.
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: mart on April 12, 2013, 01:34:41 PM
I would have painted them one if they had asked !!  Just can`t stand a thief !!  And from a fund raiser too !!
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: bigwull on April 12, 2013, 02:26:24 PM
Well, you know what they say Mart..."what goes around,comes around"....
Title: Re: Painting....
Post by: ghopper1924 on April 14, 2013, 04:32:51 AM
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