Fig Street Studio sells comical aprons on the web at http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/aprons
Comical designs from alligators to Zydeco music, crawfish, and Mardi Gras. Take a look at the Lobster and Road Kill Cafe Aprons at Fig Street Studio.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Art On Postage Stamps From Fig Street Studio
Unique art on postage stamps. New Orleans artist JK Schwehm sells art on postage stamps on the web at his Zazzle shop, http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/stamps
New Orleans Art On Greeting Cards
New Orleans artist JK Schwehm sells his art on greeting cards on the web at http://www.zazzle.com/figstreetstudio/cards
Unique paintings and graphic designs on cards some with matching postage stamps. The cards can be personalized and customized on the web. Add in names, logo, or sentiments right on the web page. Many cards to choose from and sales help rebuild.
Unique paintings and graphic designs on cards some with matching postage stamps. The cards can be personalized and customized on the web. Add in names, logo, or sentiments right on the web page. Many cards to choose from and sales help rebuild.
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Palm Tree and Lion at City Park
In 1974 when I was a Probation Officer at Juvenile Court in New Orleans I saw an elderly man collecting seeds from the many beautiful palm trees along Loyola Ave by the Civil Courts Building. He told me he planted the seeds in empty coffee cans and grew them for sale. He was correct because I followed his advice and had many palm trees to plant in my yard. New Orleans has many beautiful palms and they make the landscape very interesting. I purposely painted the the palm tree behind the lion in the above painting because with the moon the painting looked like another place not New Orleans City Park. The park has some unique and beautiful spots that could be found in Europe .
Last November while visiting the park I decided to collect some seeds from that big beautiful palm tree near the Peristyle. I wasn’t sure why. I had already collected seeds from palm trees on Magazine St and they were sprouting. This weekend I was in city park and discovered to make room for “improvements” that big beautiful palm tree was cut down and laying ready to be cut up into pieces. Now I know why I stopped to collect the seeds. I will not only have a beautiful palm tree but one from the big palm tree that once stood majestically near the Peristyle in City Park making my painting even more cherished.
Piano and Chair
Once when I lived on Fig Street my neighbor was trying to give away an old piano. It wasn’t easy because they are so heavy and costly to repair no one wanted to bother with it. She was telling me all about it and I said I’ll take it. All I had were the electronic keyboards, it would be nice to have an old piano. Well I quickly learned why no one wanted to bother. I got it to the front sidewalk and had to call for help. My son and several of his friends arrived and we pushed it to my front steps then rested as going up was not easy. We made it up and set it inside with my old chair in the living room. A friend is a piano tuner and he came buy to tell me the poor old piano was too old and worn to bother tuning. So what, I couldn’t play well either so we were a perfect match.
I usually paint on a painting table that was set up across the room from the old piano and chair. One day I was painting the Mississippi Queen River Boat with a lot of detail and had to rest. As I looked off to rest my eyes I saw the old piano and chair with my shoes on the floor. To me it looked just like something Van Gogh would paint. He painted his room, chairs, shoes, almost anything that sat still. So I quickly sketched it onto an old piece of paper sitting on the table I used to clean off white paint from my brush, not thinking I would actually finish it. As I sketched then painted it started looking good until I began to shake. If I do not stop to eat I begin to shake from some sort of sugar problem. I finished the painting but was a little upset with the squiggley and shaking lines in it. I put it on the side went to eat and basically forgot about it. As I cleaned up the painting table from the original riverboat painting I saw the Old Piano and Chair so I put it in a cheap frame but did not hang it up. My son saw it and said he thought it was fine and the squiggley lines did make it look Van Gogh like. Maybe Van Gogh had a sugar problem? A friend stop by once and said it was her favorite. So I never really know what a painting would do or how it would affect someone. Mostly I paint for the fun of doing it. Oh, the Old Piano is no more we finally gave it away too, so I am glad I took a rest from painting that day and did the Old Piano and Chair.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
The Blue Dachshund
I have a friend who loves Weiner Dogs so I developed "The Blue Dachshund" that also comes in many other colors for note cards, shirts, and Christmas Cards. This year I added two Valentine Cards of the Blue Dachshund . See them at both at my Cafe Press and Zazzle Stores on the web. As I come up with more places for the Blue Dachshund to show up I'll add them into the ones already available so stop back next month to see more designs. I have a comical one where he is the horse under Andrew Jackson.
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