No one else likes grasses?

[alfreda89]

So I've been looking for MONTHS for a photo or print (or a painting, if I can find someone on the front end of their career) of interesting grasses. Dune grasses, Texas grasses (there are hundreds) Kansas prairie grasses, bamboo, for heaven's sake -- I wanted a gift for a friend who did me a tremendous favor this year. But at this rate, I will have to fall back on a gift certificate for Fogo de Chao.

I found a couple of nice National Graphic prints, but they are produced in the hundreds. This person has a collection of original and limited art, for the most part. The large photos of a work he liked are gone, the family of the deceased artist no longer producing his photo/lithos.

Very discouraged. If I could box my time, it would be the sice of a Geo by now. I should have tried painting one myself. Sheesh.

And Merlyn is Helping me cook. At least when he ran into the stand mixer whisk with sugar, butter and eggs on it, he stood still to let me clean him up. Now guess who is in the doghouse? Me. This was my fault, obviously, for doing something on HIS counter.

Merlyn says mutter-mutter-mutter...

UPDATE: Thanks to Lillian Butler, I found Jamie Rood, who turns out to be a regional artist. His lone beach grass against sand was just what I was looking for, and the recipient loves it!

There was a frame sale at Jerry's Artarama, and I got a professional gallery print frame at a lovely price, plus some museum glass for it. Rah, Jerry's Austin!

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

doing something on HIS counter

I was making cookies yesterday, and SinSin kept trying to get a paw on the rolling pin.

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

(http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/apricot_tree/?action=view&current=grasssunset.jpg)

Can you take your own pic and have it framed? Grasses are very accommodating subjects. This one is from Bandon, Oregon.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Really lovely! Have you tried blowing up the image? Does it hold together? (My uncle took this great pic of me against a Tucson sunset -- I had it blown up to a five" by seven", and the processing destroyed it. I was overexposed, and the real vivid colors of the sunset were muted.)

YOu should definitely use this as an icon sometimes, I sure would!

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It would go to at least 5 by 7. I was lucky - it came out really crisp. My husband and I do a lot of amateur nature photography. I never thought of it as an icon, but it would work. I'd love to get my husband out to a desert someday. It would be different plants for him to play with shooting.

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

Here, he's in Austin:
http://jamierood.com/art/index.php/Landscape

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Sheesh.

Now I know -- forget HerDomain, I should always ask you first about artists!

I'll see if he has any left, and if I could get it before the Chinese New Year, at least.