Art for Sale

Many of the teachers from the school went on an what was called the "Art Tour" this last Saturday. It was quite a wide variety of styles and qualities of original or copies of original art. There must have been at least 300 different artist represented. The Dafen Oil Painting Village is a large-scale centre of artistic activity. There are over a dozen blocks of painting stores with studios upstairs. There are hundreds of painters based on the Village producing original works and artful copies of masterworks, all for sale. We bought a number of pieces. We think the two that you see here both original and one of a kind were very high quality. Don't judge them by the image you see here. We were able to meet the artist and who came to the gallery to sign both pieces before we took them. Note that one of the pieces was featured in the outside window.

We also were introduced to a new (to us) style of artwork called Cloisonne. It is a multi-step process seen in the picture with the lady holding the pieces that would become water lily paintings. A fine piece of wire is put down first then layers of what appear to be enamel are added. Very beautiful.

Now we have to get them framed and we don't have a framer here in China! Jackie! We are told the main place to have things framed is right were we were when we bought them. We may have to go back in the near future. Bus trips are limiting at times.

Oh I had to show you the Bush painting. I did not check the price but I might have to buy it for my parents, or maybe I will just get them a Mona Lisa!

You can take them any postcard or photo and they will paint it for you for a pretty reasonable price.