It takes one to know one

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.

I got oodles of these original portraits.  
Great colors and shapes and textures.
Right up my alley.

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...

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.

Portland sculpture artist -
Lee Kelly 


(large sketch from 1964)

Portland artist - Earl Hamilton

Oregon artist - Carolyn Dewey

Canadian artist - Leslie Poole

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

Another mystery artist

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