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4/19/2011

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I am an avid thrift store shopper and yesterday I hit the motherlode of cool artwork.
These caught my eye from across the store.
I grabbed them so fast that any in-store video camera would have only shown a blur.
  A blurry blur at that.
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I got oodles of these original portraits.  
Great colors and shapes and textures.
Right up my alley.
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These are by a local Portland artist, Margie Lee, and I contacted her to let her know these found an appreciative new home.   She was very kind and said that it would not even bother her if I painted over these.
Uh, no, Margie.
These are not do-overs.
I know a do-over when I see one...
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THIS is a do-over painting...


(and free to me from a friend)

I have always like art - paintings - ceramics - glass - just art in general.
Now that I have turned the front part of my office into a gallery for MY art - I have had to take other people's art that I like and display it somewhere else.
Turns out "somewhere else" is the bathroom.
Here are some examples of art that I have found at rock-bottom prices at thrift stores.  
I am far from wealthy - but I do loves me some good art.
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Portland sculpture artist -
Lee Kelly 


(large sketch from 1964)

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Portland artist - Earl Hamilton

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Oregon artist - Carolyn Dewey

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Canadian artist - Leslie Poole

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Don't know who this is - but I like it!

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Another mystery artist

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Love this!
It is called "Magic man in the Nubian Desert."
Yowza!

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