Oct
28
2007
Sailboats are a passion for me in art - I love the romantic thought of being carefree and sailing away into the sea far away from the hectic daily grind of business and people/technology noise.
I love computers and being on the Net and I would probably have to take my computer with me just so I could still paint digitally even if I were to manage to sail away into a carefree sailing vagabond life.
The reality of sailing is much different than looking at a painting and imagining oneself relaxing as the sailboat skitters before the wind across the ocean. Sailing is hard work, especially in a storm. Paintings or prints are popular with people like me that do not want the work involved but want the romantic daydream idea.
One doesn’t have to worry if they would get seasick or fall overboard to drown in a storm when sitting at home daydreaming about visiting faraway places from the deck of the sailboat pictured in the fine art print hanging on the wall.
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Tags: Jenice McQuarrie, Sailing San Diego - Beautiful Boats Sail the Bay, Imagekind, Sailboat, Romantic
Aug
25
2007
As everyone now knows, Hurricane Dean did not arrive in Texas last week thankfully - it went south of us to Mexico. I haven’t been to the beach in Galveston to find out if the tides and waves are calmer now so we again have calm seas but in decorating homes and offices with seascapes … most generally want calm seas for viewing pleasure.
Whenever I see a stormy sea painting in an office - I always think that the decorator had really good taste to pick one that is so energetic and full of passion - I love calm sea paintings that are so inviting - yet those stormy seas rivet me to in front of it drinking in all the movement. I feel energetic instead of ready for a nap seeing a stormy sea - it does not exhaust me but gives me motivation to go win against all odds. Stormy sea paintings can inspire us into putting forth our best efforts in life and to invest our own passions into whatever we are doing.
I would not want a stormy sea painting in a bedroom - that might create turbulent nightmares - but in a kitchen, living room (great room?), dining room or family room especially, it could be the focal point for a variety of accent colors for furniture and decorator pillows. Try looking outside the box when decorating with seascape paintings - your room will stand out in people’s memories for being unusual and not the same as everyone else’s.
The paintings below from various ImageKind artists are lovely and would be a fine focal point or accent piece. I chose these because I like the paintings and also the artist’s painting style - the variety of color harmonies is extensive also which makes for a great selection of decorating ideas.
