Lost Things: Beer cans and Georgia

Beer Can Collection (Original) by The Vintage Painter

My mom, Georgia, and my twins

It was very difficult to paint. It was nearly impossible to be creative.

As such, I had to find something more detailed and labor intensive that required more concentration than creativity. I settled on my brother’s vintage beer can collection. He inherited most of the 600 cans from an older cousin.

Out of the 600 cans I chose some for sentimental reasons and some simply because I liked the imagery on the cans. Almost all of them are from Minnesota and Wisconsin with the rest from Iowa and one from West Virginia.

During mom’s illness my Partner would tell me to go and paint. He would insist that I go and work on it for a few minutes or a few hours. It took me nearly a year to complete. This time frame was partially because painting in thin layers of glazes and paints requires long dry times and partially because of the mental fatigue brought about by life’s situations.

It is interesting at how many shows people of all ages stop and reminisce about their more-often-than-not lost beer can collections, which one they drank in their youth and which ones they remember a relative loving. People have even offered me money on the spot for he Grain Belt cone-top.

I can’t count the number of times someone told me they lost their can collection when they left for college and their parents threw it away. During the late 70’s and 80’s the trash-bins of America must have been full of steel and aluminum cans as kids left for college and boomer parents cleaned rooms and garages of “trash” in order to make way for the study or spare bedroom.

Almost all of these cans are as old or older than me…and I’m, um, older.

After talking to so many people and listening to so many stories, I see something more than oil and canvas. I see history, culture, family and my mother.

Beer Can Collection (Original)
16″ x 40″ Oil on Canvas
Framed: Recovered and re-purposed metal and barn-wood. Handcrafted.
$4000 + S&H

Beer Can Collection (Canvas and Paper Prints)
FREE Shipping through 10/31/2013.

Canvas Print
Small, 8″ x 20″, $95 + $12.99 S&H = $107.99 –> SPECIAL $95.00
Full, 16″ x 40″, $250 + $28.99 S&H = $278.99 –> $250.00
Framed, Small, 8″ x 20″, $250 + $49.99 S&H = 299.99 –> $250.00
Framed, 16″ x 40″, $600 + $79.99 S&H = $679.99 –> $600.00

Paper Print
Matted, 11″ x 17″, $25 + $3.99 S&H = $28.99 –> $25.00

All canvas prints are in limited editions and are signed by me.

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Pride of 1926 (10″ x 12.5″) http://goo.gl/Wfy2i1 All canvas prints are in limited editions and are signed by me. Copyright (C) reserved.

Tub Full of Sunshine (10″ x 12.5″) http://goo.gl/iPK5iV All canvas prints are in limited editions and are signed by me. Copyright (C) reserved.

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Along for the Ride (10″ x 12.5″) http://goo.gl/hwcmf9 All canvas prints are in limited editions and are signed by me. Copyright (C) reserved.

Winter Farm Scene (10″ x 12.5″) http://goo.gl/m6uwMZ All canvas prints are in limited editions and are signed by me. Copyright (C) reserved.

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Christmas is coming! Christmas is coming!

“Working the Fields”.

Everything has a story.

For Christmas, I’d like to paint yours.

Repeatedly, I’m asked where I get the ideas for my paintings. The truth is my ideas come from you.

The source material from all of my paintings come to me as commission work, personal genealogy research or are donated to me. As such, I know the family and history of almost all of my paintings. I may paint them as impressionism with, or without, a flair of contemporary pop-art or in a realism style but at the end of the day what I paint is based on what I know about the people, the place, the mood and my personal style.

I paint using oil and canvas in a master’s style – no computers, no tracing. Only old school technology.

Find a favorite vintage photo from your family and let me turn it into an original sepia painting!

Order a two figure, sepia painting in my impressionism style before October 31 and have the original painting before Christmas.

20″ x 24″ $600 unframed + $65 S&H = $665 (Normally, $900)
16″ x 20″ $400 unframed + $55 S&H = $455 (Normally, $600)

Lady with Horse Original: Sold. No prints available.

Canvas and paper prints available for an extra charge. Framing available. 50% down due at time of order with the balance due at delivery. 

Because of time constraints only 8 are available at this price. Below are some samples. Cannot be combined with other offers.

…or…

Donate a favorite vintage family photo and if I use it as source material for a painting I will give you a free canvas print of the painting.

Click here for more details. 

Backyard Bikers (Paper Print) Paper Print Matted, 11″ x 17″, $25 + $3.99 S&H = $28.99 Canvas Print Not Available Details at http://goo.gl/Xrvqwe.

Wedding Kids 15″ x 30″ Oil on Canvas Framed: Recovered and re-purposed barn-wood. Handcrafted. $350 + S&H (Originally $700) No paper or canvas print available. Details at http://goo.gl/VTGzGe.

Lady with Horse Original: Sold. No prints available.

Front Porch Love Letters Original: Sold. No prints available.

My sepia painting “Working the Fields”.

Plowing the Fields Original: Sold. No prints.

Original Painting: Escanaba Beach Combers. Not Available. Sold.

Three for the Road, Now 35% off through March 31.

Save 35% on the original oil painting “Three for the Road” plus free shipping through 3/31. Now only $585 (Originally $900).

I will even pay the freight through 3/31. Click here for details.

Original Painting: Three for the Road

Just a reminder

Painting completed my life. – Frida Kahlo

Vintage Painter Art Auction on eBay

Original: Abby In Spring

In the spirit of spring, I’m trying something new.

This weekend I will be auctioning off one of most popular prints on eBay. I have mixed feelings about this doing this but if I want something different for my life I have to be willing to act differently.

That means not relying so much on juried art shows (travel expenses are huge), galleries (galleries typically keep 30% to 50% of the sale price) or simply commission works. Auctions on my eBay account, promotion of a monthly newsletter, exhibiting at non-art related events and periodic sales are all attempts to act different.

The Beer Can Collection canvas print is 16 inches by 40 inches and is framed in an original, one-of-a-kind, industrial frame made of old ductwork created by a master craftsman friend. I want it to go to a good home.

Click here to go to the auction and learn the details.

The auction ends 3/9/13.

I’m going to experiment with this periodically with originals and canvas prints and see what happens. I’ll keep you posted.

Original: Beer Can Collection

In the frame the dimensions are 24 inches by 48 inches.

Framed Print: Beer Can Collection

 

Two new and then the flu

Yesterday I finished two new paintings. Today I caught the flu. Or it caught me. I’m not sure. Uggg…

So without any wordiness here is the gist.

Jim’s Music

A close up of Jim’s Music.
Original oil painting: $$1200. Size: 20″ x 24″. Unframed. A custom frame is available at an extra cost.

On a road trip I took to Coyote Woman Gallery in upper Michigan in the fall of 2012, I stopped in the town of Escabana, Michigan to research the site of my Escabana Beach Combers painting.

Through serendipity I found this beautiful building and music store. Jim’s Music is a specialty retailer selling musical instruments and equipment across northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Check them out!

To learn more about this painting or my other works visit my website or email me.

Pididdle

A close up view of Pididdle.
Original oil painting: $250. Size: 9″ x 12″. Unframed

The source material for this painting is from a road trip my partner and I took to Deep Ellum Arts Festival in 2012.

We stopped in Lebanon, MO and met Roger and Bill. The painting “Bill’s Garage” is also based on that trip. You can read more about that stop and see more images from Bill’s Garage by clicking here.

To learn more about this painting or my other works visit my website or email me.

A close view of Pididdle,

This was the painting I was researching. Escabana Beach Combers. Original oil and canvas 20″ x 24″ $750

On the easel drying down.

A close up of Jim’s Music.

Pididdle drying down on the easel.

A little distance for perspective.

A little distance for perspective.

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Limited Time Promotion: Brownie Box Camera Canvas Print

Weekly Promotion: 8″ x 10″ Brownie Box Camera print on stretched canvas only $49. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. See FineArtAmerica for details.

Long LONG before digital cameras and iPhones there was the Eastman Kodak Brownie. When it was introduced in 1900 it sold for $1.00 and in its first year there were over 100,000 sold.

The camera has a really fantastic history and changed the way we experience the world. Check out some of the details by clicking here.

Purchase a 8.00″ x 10.00″ stretched canvas print of The Vintage Painter’s Brownie Box Camera for the promotional price of $49 through FineArtAmerica. The original 18″x18″ is mounted on a custom crafted 24″ x 24″ rustic style frame built for me by With August‘s Tim Ofstead. It is $400 plus insurance, shipping and handling.

Promotion ends Friday, 01/18/2013.

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Art Elves: Looking for artists

Looking into one the store front windows from the atrium.

The Art Elves – where Santa goes for fine art – is looking for regional Wisconsin, Iowan, and Minnesota artists to participate in a seasonal artists show at the Gaviidae Commons in the heart of downtown Minneapolis.

We have secured 1,400 square feet on the street level of the Gaviidae Commons II and are situated between the Italian restaurant D’Amico & Sons, the retailer Talbots and Neiman Marcus, the coffee shop Caribou Coffee, the Westin Hotel Minneapolis and the RBC Plaza.

Atrium View

All of these businesses open up into the atrium.

The Target Holidazzle Parade passes the store every Thursday through Sunday until December 18 bringing in additional foot traffic and interest.

The store will be open from Black Friday (November 23) through January 4, 2o13 (Yes. I know. 2013 already?!) and through a lottery system every artist will rotate through the storefront windows and have access to the street window.

Store View.

We have space for ten artists. Each artist will have approximately 100 square feet depending on the type of art and how it needs to be displayed. Although the store has excellent track lighting and display space you may need to provide your own booth panels, displays and lighting.

You must provide your own insurance.

Let’s get the money questions out of the way: $800.00 Participation Fee + 10% commission + 3% for credit card transactions.  Art Elves will collect and pay all applicable sales taxes.

Did I mention that is a total of six weekends and five weeks over the holidays in downtown Minneapolis? On the parade route? In a high-end, high traffic location? Alongside other heavily promoted retailers? Over the holidays?

With fresh coffee nearby? And you don’t even have to work in the store unless you want too.

Participating artists will be mailed a check on Monday, December 17 for sales registered between November 23 to Friday December 14 and on Friday, January 11 for all sales registered between Saturday, December 15 and Friday, January, 4th. Checks will include a statement reflecting all sales.

All credit card transactions in the store will be taken via a Square.

Artists are responsible for delivering, setting up, replenishing inventory and picking-up their own work during strict hours.

Artists may opt into sales and promotional opportunities that may include Groupon, Living Social, Google Offers, Facebook promotions, Google+ promotions, Linkedin promotions, SMS text marketing and in-store promotions.

More details to follow.

The space is limited to ten artists and is first come, first served and until the spaces are filled. To the best of our ability we will not have competing artists.

Did I mention? This is first come.

Call or email Chrissy Mount (Kapp) or Sean Kinney for details. Chrissy@vintagepainter.com or Sean@vintagepainter.com or visit www.vintagepainter.com.

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Brains and Donuts! nom…nom…nom…

Brains and Donuts

I’m trying something new.

As such for a limited time you can purchase an 8″ x 10″ stretched canvas print of this painting for only $49.00 plus tax, shipping and handling through Fine Art America.

I only bought 24 at this price and the offer is only open until October 28. Just go to Fine Art America’s website and you can place an order.

They will ship it within 24 hours.

If you prefer a larger size I do offer it in a signed, numbered limited edition in a 20″ x 24″ for $195 and a 12″ x 15″ for $95. You can order that through the Vintage Painter website store or email me directly at chrissy@vintagepainter.com.

Brains and Donuts in a custom designed industrial frame. No two frames are alike.

There are also custom made industrial frames available through my website. Just let me know if that is something that interests you.

If you purchase either the 20″ x 24″ or the 12″ x 15″ I will pay for the shipping.

Of course the original is still available and is $2195 plus shipping and handling.

What has been fun about this painting and the giclees is who has been buying them – two neurosurgeons, a psychologist, a few Brians, graduates of St. Louis University Medical Center, a chef and some old timers from St. Louis. I can’t wait to see where the art goes.

If you would like to learn more about this painting and the real place it is based on in St. Louis, MO click here.

Brains and Donuts

The original painting for scale. My son was trying to help me finish it off.

Brains and Donuts in a custom designed industrial frame. No two frames are alike.

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