It can be found at garage sales. I got some neat stuff over the years, alot of it seventies or sitxties vintage. I got a drift wood thing for a dime on Saturday and a few weeks ago found a real neat shag and different texture rug that can be hung on the wall but we put under our glass Naguchi table for 2 bucks! I also got this sixties giraffe that was needlepoint or something pic with psychdelic flowers on it. There is alot of folk art out there and for cheap if you look at your local thrift stores and weekend garage sales.

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no, but i'm lucky to have neighbours who paint on trees

Cool, never heard of that

im not really so sure what folk art is as such, but i suspect i have an interest in it.

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

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I think Im using the right term. Its basically just stuff you find at thrift stores or garage sales made by other people. You know the old lady cleaning out her closets and came across a sewing thing or craft thing that there grown children didntwant to take with them that she/he had made for them.
Clay Art is also a cool find. It is clay pebbles in different colors that make up a pic. Mosiac stuff too is a fun find.
I reallly try to look out for stuff before 1976. I have lots of collections of things, old owl figures, boxes and boxes of old gas maps brochures and paper stuff.
Im not really an artist but would like to start collecting my dryer lint and making art out of it. You know blue lint when you are washing jeans, reds when you wash reds etc and make it into art. I saw it in The Examiner one time and thought it was cool.
The Exminer ( a US Supermarket tabloid) is having there Envelope drawing contest with Phillis Diller as judge. All you have to do is send in an Envelope addressed to them with drawing on it.

OH WELL THEN I HAVE STUFF!

i'll take photos later on today. i have this really really cool bird canvas, and an old wooden statue of a horse that i'm thinking of specifically. i usually buy cool things like that if i see them.

the lint thing actually sounds really fucking cool. i'd never have the patience

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Maybe you could send him like a coat hanger or soup mix in the mail with a post it-
"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
Throwing people off is thrilling.

-ktlr

Yeah post some pics. I dont know how to download or shrink pics etc. I dont have patience with computers and am a procrastinator so will take me forever to get pics of my more intersting folk art finds.
Besides the clay art thing which could have been mass produced, not sure I have this other one that is on black velvet of a peacock. It might have been mass produced in the fifties or sixties but has blue and green translusant clay pebbles on the body, the feathers have bits of clay , sequins and some string things and then silver sequins bordering the main body. Not one sequin is missing either! Salvation Arny Thrift Store: 6.00.
The dime drift wood thing I got at a garage sale is different sizes of drift wood from Santa Cruz beach glued together with little plastic eyes on them.

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on the flat parts of trees, in vivid colors, birds are painted. it looks like typical folk art.

That sounds real cool. I have never in all my travels believe I have seen art painted on trees. You should ask the people if they have a website they show it on or submit a digipic of it, that art form sounds real cool!

if i ever see them outside, i'll ask.
they go all out on holidays! and have kids, who they like to get involved. i can't wait to see their halloween displays, no skimping on cobwebs, tombstones, & ghosts.

the kids draw on the sidewalk in colored chalk. isn't that modern folk art?

Yes I would call that "wash away contempory or modern folk art" the chalk coloring.
I think that is neat that the family has the children do that and are helping cultivate their creativity. I can just tell by psychic intstinct (can check the psychic 900 hotline to verify) that that is a very happy family who are probably going to vote for Obama and the kids will grow up to be successes. How many other families encouraged you to draw on trees or on the sidewalk? Not many.

really! not nearly enough. my friend, the tattoo artist next door always gives his nieces colored chalk for drawing on the sidewalk, and i always have to add something!

Your commentary is always so constructive and good cherry bomb!

My friend was telling me the other day that when she was a kid she was at her friend's (who lived in one of those dead ends with a big turn around thing at the end) Her and whoever were drawing with chalk all around the turn around and the neighbor came out and bitched at them. He was saying they weren't allowed to draw on his side of the circle hahaha.

Take the fucking stick out of your ass, old man.

Anyways, I used to have a lot of random stuff I had bought at garage sales. I don't remember what happened to it all though

I had this weird painting of a big eyed dog sitting in the night, painted candle holders, so much stuff.

Now I just collect things that I find on the road and random places.

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Some cities have ordinances outlawing it.
OUr city we are annexed into was mostly Italian or Swiss Italian or Portuguese before the bridges were built so our city has an Italian Chalk Drawing contest every year.
Also this auction I go to every month at the Alemeda Air Station suppsely just drew the largest chalk art and were trying to get in the worlds record book. You couldnt see it cause the ground was so flat, that was two months ago and hasnt rained so think you can probably walk on it now and see the images. Why they didnt put bleachers up in that in the middle of nowhere place between the water and Oakland is beyond me. Miles of land abanoded and derlict. Some hangers are used but the housing was just left to rot.