Modern Country Style Kitchen Find 8

 Yellows and the natural color of the wood have a been a perfect match since time immemorial. However, it is classic and vintage. And to make this country style kitchen modern , the match is contrasted by silver-gray and black. Put some dainty colorful from artworks for sale we find somewhere,and there you  go--- the overall place is alive!

Modern Country Style Kitchen Find 7

The reds today does not exude renaissance ambiance anymore. It is contemporary. It is a good contrast to neutral or pale colors. Most of moderns design with a feel of Asian art use a lot of reds. Love this homey place. It is simple and it is fresh.

Modern Country Style Kitchen Find 5

How I love the blues in it! Remove all the frills, make the handles just matte silver or chrome stainless steel, and this becomes modern in an instant but less all those mentioned, this divine kitchen won't look this homey.  It is beautiful! Is that a wall painting over there or a glass mirror?

Modern Country Style Kitchen Find 4

Country but elegant, pretty neat and I love it. How about some huge wall painting across just atop a beautiful sleek table.

Modern Country-Style Kitchen Find 3

 This is a dream kitchen if we do not want to go too modern. Seems like it is a studio of artworks for sale. This kind of green is what I like best. Love the shade of it more on the laminate wall between the countertop and the upper kitchen cabinet. The floor is divine and love the wood works all over.

Modern Country Style Kitchen Find 2

Typical country but how about touch of Asian art? That lamp, yes it made a difference.

Kitchen— Our Fine Haven

Kitchen is our favourite area in the house. Kitchen, since time immemorial, is one big studio of artworks for sale for most women. We love big kitchen where we can cook our specialties. But just as cooking is expensive so is a beautiful fine kitchen. The real deal is the kind of kitchen a woman has, most of the time, matches the food she prepares.

Men are great cook. Most of the time, they can cook delicious food in any given place as long as there is stove, pans, and flame and the right ingredients for cooking. But for most women, especially for modern women, cooking requires not just conducive area to cook but a kitchen that pleases the eyes. Pots and pans maybe few but they should be of fine-grade, as well.  Such kitchens suit big houses as if the woman of the house caters for the entire village every given meal. But this is a no-no to small flats where it is just a kitchenette that is provided. Yet, this little Asian art should be as conducive and beautiful as big kitchens where cook enjoys cooking.  After all, food tastes wonderful when it is prepared with love and happiness and when not treated as mere household chores to cook. A gorgeous or cute kitchen gives the same effect to the one preparing the dish. This, with nice kitchenware and dishes will make the food more palatable. Plus, the fact that we are inspired to make special preparation than the usual food we eat in a daily basis when there is beauty all around us just as how fine our kitchen is so is the dish we want to prepare. If we can only put some garnishing of reds, oranges, and greens in a wide plate we will if and only if we will not tap ourselves that it is just us and a toddler who will be dining at home. Otherwise, a bottle of chilled red wine along with steak and greens will be a regular delight.

Dining is leisure just as going to the theatre and strolling to places. And because of the pleasure it gives, it is costly. Therefore, to minimize the cost of fine dining, we need to create a pleasing meal time at home. And one prerequisite of this is an inspiring kitchen of whether it is big to suit a mansion house of just a cute kitchenette present in flats. Oh heaven, kitchen is a beauty—of whether it is European or Asian art!

And this time for October we first dwell on posting nice kitchen finds we got from the net. And because our theme for the month onwards will be country style, then so be it. But first we start with a touch of contemporary design. Classic country style designed kitchen is outmoded but it remains homey. All we need is a modern touch-ups and that is what we have.

Modern Country-Style for October Onwards

Country style interior design may be traditional. But no other design can be so homey than this kind.  Corporate offices and residential interior are well delineated from each other with country style to make our house give us a feel of home-sweet-home! And true, wall paintings are more venerated in such style than laminates, highly glossed wall, or mirrored walls.

Country-style design is old fashion yet we miss the tall plants in the corner, the light blue floral wall framed with white cornices, the woven rocking chair, and the busy design of everything from living area to kitchen. The house is just stuffed. And instead of keeping the small details in the house inside a built-in cabinet, we just want them arranged somewhere— a specific table for this, an open shelf, or even atop our hanging kitchen cabinet where in between these items are pots with plants. It is quite far from what is in today most especially if we dwell within the commercial hub.  In our flats is where minimalism reigns. Our pad will be contemporary as long as we leave the artworks with the interior structure. We make the wall glass—smoked, frozen, or just plain clear. We choose plain shades of mocha, grey, or a bit gloomy shade of white as wall paint or perhaps laminates of designs and patterns are better. After that, we select a few modern furniture. And anything extra we keep them in cabinets, hidden!  This is in. This is fad. This is lifestyle yet we wonder why in times of stress, we want to fly somewhere else and be temporarily cradled by bed with sheets that have ruffles and frills, by room with printed drapes and ribbons to tie them, with walls that are not glass and glossy but wood in white and where small stuffs are arranged in display—even groceries too are treated like artworks for sale!  We know that kind of style is where our generation grows up and such ambiance feels like being equated to fresh milk, fresh air, and edible greens, and palatable cooking.

There is too much beauty in traditional interior design.  It makes a home to look like home.  It is place which food is not just a phone away but we see our folks in apron busy preparing food for us. And truly, it is also a place where cooking seems a catering in a daily basis and where breathing of air does not entail inhaling pollutants. And this feeling is what exactly country-style interior designing gives us.

So from October onwards, it is all about country style design that we will be posting on here. But not far from what is in today, we will deviate from truly conventional to country style with modern touch-ups. After all, we can't live backwards.

Wallpaper Find 8

Woven/linen wallpaper. Very modern in style but it exudes a classic feel, likewise!-- Asian art

Wallpaper Find 7

Talk about simplicity and class and we have it! -- Asian art

Wallpaper Find 6

Just simply black and white. Can't tell if it is too much or too simple. Or perhaps less is more!--

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Wallpaper Find 5

 

I love gloomy interior with shades of gray, black, and navy blue. But when I choose brightness, yellow and white accented with dark blue and gray  are great color blends for me.-- Asian art

Wallpaper Find 4

The wall paper is  matching the texture and colors of the furnishing. There is not too much accent or contrast of colors but this time it is just a different shades of one color. It may look dark but the effect of lighting will work wonders in this design. And if it will look dark, so what then? After all, twilight is in! --- Asian art

Wallpaper Find 3

 

 Ohhh! I love thin stripes, All the more if it is with blue.

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OR different shades of gray....

Wallpaper for September!

Walls are not just made alive by wall paintings, murals, or paint. Wallpaper plays a major role in the overall interior of the house. It comes with design that we are left with option if we will leave it as it is or perhaps still adorn the wall with fine arts.

September will be a moth of wallpaper. It comes with different textures, design, materials, and surely of varying cost. The new ones may be costly but the quality is worth every dime.  we can save from paints yet we need to adorn our wall with fine arts. Although we can settle for cheap decors, it would still be better to make our wall bare than looking cheap. It is much better to wait for the right budget for such wonderful paper our simple abode truly deserves.

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Expression in Asian Art

Does religion quite curtail the expression of Asian art? Asia is jam packed with faithful people from different sectors of religions. One country may be a mixture of religions from Christianity to Buddhism yet we know that there is one that dominates each nation. And yes, from this prevailing faith lies the ideology that shaped the culture, tradition, and political history of one’s race.

Wall painting, more than being an ornate to a place is an expression of thoughts and feelings combined. Imagination puts knowledge in the backseat. It can run wild. It is a place in our mind that seems infinite and vast ‘till creativity operates to fill the vastness with visions and powerful emotions. Filling this vastness however is curtailed with factors such as values, inhibition, and moral consideration for others. Given these, in a society where norms and values prevail, with traditions that need to be followed, with culture that asked for warm embrace, expression of art is in no doubt curtailed. Thus, Asian art is expected to blend with all these factors and not these factors submitting or giving in to Asian art.

Religion, no matter what sect, needs to be respected not unless we speak of cults that eat human flesh or kill people as offerings to God. We speak here of religions that talk about philosophy of making the people succumb to good. This message may come in different versions or translations like how one statement of good deed is written in religious books of Christians, Buddhists, Islam, and some other more. However, making a wall painting out of these may not always suggest approval on their teachings and the religious icons that represent them. It is art anyway. It is the artist’s view on his subject. And as audience of these arts, we can tell what is too much and what is just right without tracing law from the constitution that guides the creation or expression of art.

Wall Paintings in a very conservative country can be sexual, violent, or anything pertaining to imperfection and frailty of human beings but targeting the religious icons which people worship, and which people deem as refuge to their tribulations is in no way a sign of moral consideration. It is hitting on icon which people believe as sacred. We are not in a way triggering arguments on religious terms like paganism or blasphemy but just simply moral consideration that has guided and founded the values of the constituents of a nation.

Religious icons are in human form.  Be it a sculpture or a wall painting, portrayed is a human being. Painting this form as disfigured in a very questionable way is unacceptable. We, humans, know what is insulting and mockery without consulting the constitution.

Artist on the online world of art

Artworks for sale online is irrefutably numerous. If a buyer does not know how to specify search or self-assess what he or she needs, then chances are that the person would retreat to buy art online and just rather drop by to one of the local stores nearby after getting dizzy from hopping from one internet gallery to another.

Putting an artwork for sale online is hope against hope that such art will be noticed. Indeed, internet is a way to get something noticed but amid competition, many artists just sulked in to frustration until such time they realize that there is a perfect buyer for their art waiting at the backseat. As we say, art can be aesthetics and at the same time an expression. And just like music, there is a perfect song for every person depending as to how this song touches her at a particular time.  A song that was never a favourite can touch the heart of a person whose current situation, thoughts, and feelings overall are perfectly described by the song. This goes the same for art. Art speaks and the artist needs to do is to just wait for the listener. There is one person in the world whose style and colours, and anything in composition of the wall painting will make or break someone’s heart. That one person whom the artist attracts like a magnet will be his or her recurring art buyer.

Yes, at least one in the world will fall on his knees for your art.  And there are extra blessings if this one person multiplies as your art lovers. Nothing beats word- of- mouth advertising. This is classic, traditional, and most of all tried and tested when it comes to disseminating information that would promote your artworks for sale. Expect among billions of people, that one buyer who fell in love with your artwork for sale, chances are, will make your name grow in the art market. Patience is not the key to succeed in the field of art but it is a matter of trust and faith to oneself that matters. Believe in your talent and you’ll see a believer in you coming in to your life until such time that you realize that you have already established a group of fans.

It is true that internet now has been propagated by artworks for sale from different parts of the globe and many artists struggle to make his first sale but it is not about making money in one snap that will make their works popular online but their name needs to reverberate too in the art world. As to how, this will happen? Just ignore the thought and stay passionate with art!

Affordable Oil Painting

Yes, there is acrylic. But what can underestimate original oil paintings when Mona Lisa and the rest of renowned classic paintings centuries back are all in oil! The ones that are heralded in famous museums are of the same kind. As for medieval artists back in a century where knowledge and creativity propagated and well respected, there was no other kind but oil painting.

However, wall paintings are not meant to be confined in museums alone. How about our walls at home which constantly crave for their beauty? And what about the big time businesses which would like these oils to attract good fortune for their offices? No worries. Affordable art is just around the corner.  Billionaires need not think of shedding out a zillion just to have original oil paintings from renaissance period safe in their possession. Many artworks that are for sale are of oils in canvas. Most of them are at par with that of Da Vinci’s and can even look better in contemporary style. Why spend a zillion when a few hundreds will do? Aside from getting quality, art is not expensive now as it was before. In fact anyone who wants to join a business art cycle of art rental can start with one piece which will not even hurt the pocket of the investor. 

The glitter of original oil paintings touches the hearts of art lovers most especially from the aesthetic angle of arts. Women like anything that glitters like diamonds and accessories that shimmer from afar. Instead of matte, many would choose for gloss. Compare with cars, as well. Cars with glossy body are much more attractive than those that are not. And the same aesthetic preference goes to all including wall paintings.  It is then good news for all that such a piece called investment is also a piece that is beautiful and can now even be deemed as affordable art.  Walls are not really fine without fine arts. But walls cannot be fine if budget will not allow it to look fine. Yet, many have not discovered that the finest like original oil painting is now an affordable art. Check out for artworks for sale that are posted in the internet. You have a global theme in a more reduced price from the average price of wall paintings years ago which means all have equal opportunity to get a beautiful piece of investment for a price that is even below what is reasonable.

Original wall paintings will glitter in the wall but it would be great too if you wallet will not lose its gloss from an empty interior. Take advantage of affordable art. More it becomes cost-saving if purchased wholesale.

Asian Art and its Expression

Asian countries as we know are bounded to rich culture-- a culture that is shaped by faith and religion. Since time immemorial, each of these religions had influenced the society and we thank them for filling our minds with wisdom and for being a refuge and comfort in times of distress.

Of whether this is psychological or divine, so far religion does not teach anyone of wrong doing. In fact, they helped. People of whether they are believers of a certain religion or no religion at all sin and religion has nothing to do with it. It is the frailty of being human that breaks us and not a religious icon which too is a work of art. Artworks for sale that we see around us can be very suggestive. Why not? Artworks are meant to tickle the senses, to evoke emotion of bliss and sadness, to inspire, and to provoke critical thinking. However, if it is intentionally created to hit or mock someone or something, then it is not an art anymore but a medium to hurt.

 'Say speech, poetry is an art. But our everyday language which is the most expressive of all is not an art. We talk to people over issue or what we want, our views, even the most hateful thing that we feel. In fact, if we compare our daily use of speech to thousands of artworks for sale and discern which one is real expression, then the former will sell big time but it is not art at all which only means not all expressions are art. If a person uses art to inflict pain then they misunderstood what art is. It may be an expression but not art at all. And mostly, it will never be Asian art which is known to have boundaries as to how it is being perceived by fellow constituents living under one roof.

It is very seldom that you find Asian art to be provoking. Many will be mentally provoking which will make you think over a situation but very few will alarm an institution or a society, as a whole. There is no clear demarcation line, in fact, as to what extent an art can use as an expression but as individuals, we know what is not proper. Not in a chance you can use art as your escape goat to mock someone you hate because such art like music will be patronized by people. Just imagine the world will enjoy singing a song which you intend to write to hit a person you hate! And you are proud because it is art. You know for yourself your real intention and what you created is never an art. And most all, it will never be Asian art!

When is expression unjust?

To what extent Asian art can express inner thoughts, belief, and opinions? Images speak so aloud that the viewer can discern what the story behind is all about. Putting a thing to what people can see is actualization of a vision which most of the time is simply brought by imagination or creativity. Say what you must. Write what you must. Choose your medium.

Recently, local art scene in the Philippines was bombarded by two conflicting opinions. From the judgment of many Filipinos founded by the strong influence of culture, tradition, and the dominant influence of Roman Catholicism in the society vis-a- vis national artists who see no issues at all over the most talked artworks publicly displayed. The fight over a controversial art exhibit is triggered by a fight between good and evil. Which delineates evil from good has not anything to do with religion. Our sense of morality and the human judgment to what is good is not always itemized as commandments or laws. Yes, we differ in beliefs. Yet, we know what will hurt other people. Then, say what you must. Write what you must. Choose your medium-- be it wall painting or poetry. Just try not get anyone hurt. Hurting is intentional. We humans know when to hurt others because we know when they hurt us, too. This goes the same as to when we can't inflict pain because chances are pain avenges pain, not unless the retaliation is based on something that is not founded by good judgment.

Creating a distorted or disfigured image of a religious icon for public display is unjustifiable if we speak of moral grounds, or better yet if we speak of consideration to human feelings. We might be against belief on worshipping religious icons. But if one comes to think of it, the ones who desire them damaged are the people who believe more that such icons can make or break them. Religious icons can be made of wood, clay, or just simply painted as an altar piece. Such too are work of art. They did not hit anyone. Not in a chance that one of them extended their arms to poke someone who bowed before them. Simply put, these icons did not inflict pain to anyone in the world. The people who bowed before them sin just like everybody else. They were hit by a society and treated just like how a usual criminal was treated. But what about the rest whose minds and hearts are pure seeking refuge to these icons as the ones to comfort them? They were in pain because the one they love was disrespected, not to mention that the one they love is innocent. Then, what makes it deserve such mockery and insult!

Many people do not believe in ghost. The thought of ghost terrifying an individual is fun to many. Those who didn't believe will in no way be scared that a soul of a dead body comes back to haunt us. The moment they felt terrified over the thought and later on got affected  only insinuates that they too believe but perhaps, just in denial which somehow makes us conclude that the people behind the controversial art are not non-believers but subconsciously were hurting and no one is somewhere around willing to assume the blame. A speech can be damaging. Your words are okay a second ago and in an instant can change to curses due to pain within that won't go. Give or take a minute and you asked the heavens what prompted you to say it. Yes, words when unmasked or uncensored are triggered by emotion. But  an artwork as that of fine arts or other visual arts like wall painting which take a month or more to come up with a theme, design, style, and overall presentation is not in, anyway, triggered by a compulsive emotion but well-framed thoughts which means the people behind such controversial Asian art is in their right frame of minds.

Then we ask when expression unjust? If arts reflect your longing, your pain, or a distraction of yourself, then so be it but if it is damaging to other people, there is a need then to think twice.