Continuing the series of posts that try to capture the various pieces of art I have hanging around the house. Remember that these posts are made up of quick snapshots–these are hardly professional images, and the upstairs images are worse than the downstairs ones since the angles I could use to take the snapshots are much more highly constrained. The images in the post link to larger images.
Today’s post has a couple of pieces from the bathrooms upstairs.
First, in the guest bathroom, there are a couple of simple plaque-mounted pieces:
That’s a map of British North America that my dad and I made. I don’t mean we are cartographers or anything, but rather that as part of a family vaction to Black Creek Pioneer Village when I was a child, we produced the physical object. We made use of an 1860s-era printing press and printed this map ourselves. I have very few souvenirs of shared activities with my father, so this one has quite a bit of sentimental value.
This, obviously, is meant to be a period advertisement for the Orient Express. I’m actually not sure where the poster came from–I have a nagging suspicion that it might have been “colour” from a Call of Cthulhu module–but it works pretty well in the bathroom.
Trish and I looked at taking the Orient Express once. Man, that thing is crazy expensive.
In the master bath there is only one piece of art (not counting our hilarious wedding photo), this print of Jeff Jones‘ piece Withdrawn. Again this is plaque-mounted (in this case primarily for protection since the bathroom is not exactly an art-friendly environment at the best of times.)
This piece is from Fantasy Gallery, where there are lots of other Jones pieces. You’ll see several of them in later posts in this series.
