Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

8.12.2010

New Additions

A couple of weeks ago we took Cole's mom to the amazing and wonderful Renegade Craft Fair at Fort Mason.  It's a huge building, right on the water, chock full of crafters and their wares.


We were pretty excited when we turned a corner and saw Ryan Berkeley manning his stand with his mother alongside him.  We excitedly started rifling through the animal portraits, trying to decide which ones to add to our (very slowly) burgeoning collection.  It was an excruciatingly difficult decision.  The gorilla was in the running.  And the shark.  And the pygmy marmoset.  And the goat lazily eating part of his tie.

In the end, these are the guys who made it:


I love how the donkey looks so earnest while wearing what appears to be a 70s-era silvery-white tux [he was Cole's pick; she thinks he looks like Frank Sinatra].  I chose the "wait, what, you're taking my picture now?!" sea otter, looking so jaunty in his bowler hat and vest.

We now have four Ryan Berkeley prints.  That means we have, oh, several dozen more to go.

2.01.2010

WANT.

I do like to sleep.  And, on occasion, to raise some hell.

1.21.2010

Foxy


Foxy, originally uploaded by kelly_shira.

This is the newest addition to our entryway wall. I'll admit that it was one of those sneaky presents--I got it for Cole but I really wanted it too.

According to the artist, "This foxy fellow is a bit of an eccentric gardener. He whistles "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" to his carrots and tap-dances to entertain the corn. His neighbors know that if he is doing cartwheels in the pumpkin patch, it's going to be a bumper crop year."

I love him. And I want to start a portrait wall just for animals in formal wear.