My Dad collects found hotel art for me, usually thrown out because of holes or water/salt damage. I have cut most of them up and rolled them into safekeeping for future priming and painting purpose. I didn’t think to post about them until after, so sorry for the bad pics. I am a firm believer in recycling and use everything and anything to make art with. Why pay double for canvas in Michael’s when you can reuse sweet vintage hotel art instead?

The first photo, is still on canvas because I don’t want to paint over it, is by a guy named Thomas Gerhold. It was dated 2000, so it’s 12 years old but in great shape. I googled him but couldn’t find a thing. If you know Crazy Thom G., tell him that I am looking for him and I posted his art on my blog. As for the rest of this awful art:

The one with the big orange moon has traveled with me for years. I finally cut it on Saturday because it was linen and I need some of that. There was a bad rip in the middle so it looked bad on the wall. It looks like it was painted in the 70’s, or early 80’s and is thinning from age. The third one was signed by somebody named “Franco” but it had a barcode on the back so it was probably produced on some assembly line in New Jersey back in the day. The last canvas had some sweet texture but those palm trees are just dreadful! Ocean City, MD, like many other beach towns have the good hotels and the not-so-great motels, but they all have really bad pictures on the wall. I will never understand the palm tree thing, we don’t even have any down on the Eastern Shore!

I always believed that the local artists should come in handy in situations like this. There are hundreds talented artists on the Eastern Shore. We are more than wildfowl carvings and watercolors of the Chesapeake Bay (even though we are famous for that)…why not use young, talented artists or the more experienced painters and sculptors from Delmarva to fill the hotels & motels with great art? Support the local art scene and the artists. Simple solution don’t you think?