alfreda89: 3 foot concrete Medieval style gargoyle with author's hand resting on its head. (Default)
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!
alfreda89: 3 foot concrete Medieval style gargoyle with author's hand resting on its head. (Chai anime)
Not yet for me -- I have a nephew graduating from HS who thinks he wants to major in computer graphics. He'll be at one of Purdue University's extensions at first, so no idea if they'll have new stuff or older stuff for him to work on. His parents will give him a low-end Dell for graduation, so it would need to be able to work with a Dell.

If I come up with this idea fast enough, I may have a sister to go in on it.

Or it may be a combination graduation/birthday gift, since I've been working on graduation gifts so long, I totally blanked on the birthdays Sunday and Wednesday....

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