Featured Thrift store art....

Nice buy. Would be interesting to know if it’s a original or some kind of fancy ‘dressed-up’ print. Great detail on those cherries.

 

A Google search brings up other W. Pater works.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/283801971291 ("1980s")

https://www.ebay.com/itm/283801971291 ("martini glass")

Debora

 

This one doesn't appear to be by the same hand.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/184693020068

Debora

 

I don't think it is either. The other one Debora found is though, without a doubt. Either way it's going up on my wall.

I was wondering about that. It's on a stretched canvas for sure.

 

Usually the tell is the back. Bright white to the edge, machine cut, uniform surface. 20th c paintings don't tend to have the glass-like varnish or flat look so you can also usually see brush strokes that follow the lines of the piece under the top varnish.

 

I suppose I can open the back, but it's papered over. If I'd done that in the first place I'd already know for sure. I suppose since I'm keeping it I can slice it.

 

I'm always gonna say give it a rip. If it's a genuine painting they should have holes in the dust paper to breathe anyway. It's just to pretty up the back and keep dust off the inner frame. It's not integral to preservation. And it's easy to replace with a roll of craft paper and double sided tape: tape on edge of frame, paper larger than the frame laid down, press, and trim edges. You can gently use scissors but the professionals use a plain razor blade angled at the sides.

 

I took a scissors to it. It would be a pig to replace given what the framing shop did - got all fancy. Alas I saw a Philipps head screw in there and no paint on the sides of the canvas. I have a bad hunch it's just a print with a fancy varnish job.

 

A little different. But still a nice buy for just under $2.

 

All you need are a pile of D&D players and that's SOLD, if you're selling it. Dragons always find a home. Or a hoard.

 

Picked these two large paintings up the other day for $25.00 for the pair. They are so large that I hung them in the stairwell going down to the basement for now. I needed them out of the van and had no good place to store them. Consequently, the photos are not the best.

This is 42" square. Pretty new with canvas stapled to stretchers. Unsigned and no marks of any kind. I don't know if this is a factory painting or not. They usually have some kind of spurious signature or at least some numbers on the back. Whomever did it was channeling Rothko .... LOL!


This is a hand painted reproduction of CA artist, Debra Scolari. I guess this makes it an authorized factory painting (?) No signature on the work but paperwork with it identifies it as Celebration Tree Art, by Scolari. I found a couple other examples that exhibit color variations from this one. 48" x 48".

 

Made for pretty, to sell for money.

 

According to her web site, she's not an artist but rather the "creative director" of a "design company." And... "Scolari Studio has collaborated with architects, interior designers, set decorators and art consultants throughout the United States for over 20 years." So... wall decor.

https://www.scolaristudio.com/index.html#home

Debora

 

Nicely framed. Pity there’s some minor damage and a pity it’s not signed. I really like it and the more unconventional colours used.

 

Like it too. Have you opened up the back?

Debora

 

Nice... What is the medium?

 

Thanks Debora. No not yet

 

Thanks. To be honest I wasn’t sure. Was wondering if it was perhaps a mixed medium (the grass) But I decided it was Acrylic? Would you agree?

 

It is very thinned so I would guess tempera or thinned acrylic. Too much water gives you those bubbles you see in the last photo, in the blue-gray.

 

Hi Mirana,many thanks for the reply. That’s very interesting information. Good to know and learn.

What do you think about the skill level of the artist? Definitely someone with formal training but maybe still learning?