Home Decor Ideas ~ Art Ideas for the Bathroom

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Yes, that's right....... art for the bathroom. Why not? Here at Direct Artwork we even have fine art for the bathroom that has a collectible and comic twist to it. Back when, it was common for "purveyors of fine household goods" to advertise their wares through art. After all, radio didn't exist and television was a long ways off down Invention Road. So, how else would a respectible merchant advertise their goods? Through art, of course!

Decorated posters, tins and all sorts of ingenuinity sprang forth in order to "get the word out". Today, those very items are highly sought after, and are highly collectible.

Well we don't claim to have any of those collectible objects of art around here, however, we do have an artist who does a fine job of recreating that imaginative and often comical art from days gone by. In our Kathy Jennings Collection of art, you'll find two such examples.

Woodland Mist by Kathy Jennings

and another wonderful art print, also for a soap product:

Yukon Thunder by Kathy Jennings

These are two wonderful examples of advertising regular household and personal products from a gentler time in our past, before mass media. They are also charming representations of true Americana artwork, available to lend a piece of that charm to YOUR home as well!

For more great examples of decorating with wall art, be sure to visit our website for a wonderful variety of fine collectible art prints waiting for that special spot in your hallway, family room, game room, kitchen, even laundry room. Visit our Framed Art Collections and browse over 40 different collections by the genre of your choice.

Thanks for looking!

A Most Incredible Art Print ~ Rivers of Light

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Ok so spring is almost upon us although those of us back East just got dumped on with snow and ice....... 8 inches of the white stuff........

Still can't stop thinking of one more breathtaking winter scene though, since this winter was a complete bomb as far as any good snowfall, you know, the kind that is so magically quiet that you can hear each flake as it falls, thick white flakes piling up as you walk that last lap around the lake. The kind that mutes the sound of the traffic up on the main road. Lovely, that kind of snowfall, almost magical.

This print that I am about to discuss is the Poster Child for that kind of lovely snowfall.

It is a print by Kim Norlien called Rivers of Light.

What makes this print the sweetheart is the lush thickness of the snowfall, the gorgeous multicolored northern lights in the background, and the three wolves. Of course the black wolf is facing us with those glowing amber eyes.......... one can hardly break the gaze. Wolves are the spirit of the deep forest ~ their howl in the midnight hours has a primeval power that cannot be put into words. It stirs the blood more deeply than any imagining. The northern lights dancing in the background lend their colorful cast to the snow, if only for a fleeting second or two.

A print like this leaves you touched with primeval magic forever. Rivers of Light is a most incredible print.

To see more prints like this, visit Direct Artwork!

Buying Wholesale from Direct Artwork

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WHY CHOOSE DIRECT ARTWORK AS YOUR #1 WHOLESALE FRAMED ART SOURCE?

Welcome business owners and managers! Direct Artwork offers a wide range of art and services to include wholesale oak framed matted art prints, framed art prints, photo memory mats (an exciting new concept) and customized mat cutting.

Our quality framed art will enhance your store’s product lines. We are a family owned and operated business with a strong belief that CUSTOMER SATISFACTION is our highest priority. Retailers shop with us because of our competitive prices, quality products, timeliness in meeting your shipment specifications and our ability to offer “turnkey retail” solutions for your store inventory needs. Everything is American made using only the highest quality products.

Direct Artwork was established in 1986 in the natures own Marinette, Wisconsin. We specialize in the manufacturing and distribution of framed art.

For your special customers and select store inventory, we are also able to provide limited edition prints, numbered prints and collectible art; signed by the artist.

We are also now offering framed photo memory mats! Our state-of-the-art photo memory mat machine will create custom-made personalized mats with unlimited customizing options.

We would love the opportunity to personally provide you with great service and latest product offerings. Here is what we supply:

Oak Framed Matted Artwork: Sold in all types of retail outlets. These art pieces are already matted, framed and ready for sale.

Folk – Country – Primitive Framed Art: Sold in all types of retail outlets. This art is framed in a beautiful shaker frame with a wide variety of genres.

Photo Memory Mats: The mat can be customized into a word or phrase pertaining to an occasion, event or name. This item can be specialty marketed at gift shops, fairs, kiosks, craft shows and festivals. We recommend you display approximately 20 examples for your customers to consider, as you explain the unique opportunity to create that very special item. Customers also choose their mat, frame and frame color. Your orders can be shipped back to you or directly to your customer.

Bulk Mats: We offer wholesale large bulk orders of mat, direct to your store.

Who do we supply framed art to?

Galleries and Custom Framers: Our framed art work serves as inventory in art galleries and is also offered for sale in many custom frame retail establishments, providing yet another revenue source.

Retail Mall Stores or Kiosks: We supply mall stores and kiosks with an outstanding selection of framed art work. Many of our customers operate exclusively during the holiday season avoiding the overhead of a year-round retail establishment.

Gift and Craft Shops: Our product line will fit nicely into any themed shop. Carry a variety of framed prints, or select a specific genre to match your stores personality.

Furniture Stores: Quality framed art compliments a fine room of furniture, whether in a home or a retail furniture store. Framed art sales offer yet another sales point for your customers. Offices and Service Providers: Spruce up your offices, waiting rooms and hallways. Give your building the look of success with framed art.

Crafters and Fairs: Great part time sales opportunities exist with framed art and our newest line of product – personalized Photo Memory Mats.

We offer “turn-key” service, which makes integrating our products into your existing or store or product line very easy. Our services include professional price tags, pricing structure, and packaging products. We can also assist with the purchase of display materials.

Get YOUR quality fine framed art business kicked up into high gear!! Learn more............

Spring Is Coming

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Spring is on it's way, and winter will soon be out the door, although that will not rule out a late season snow event or two, that's for sure.

With spring on the way, so are the songbirds! They'll be starting their annual spring migrations toward their nesting and breeding grounds, and it's such a joy to sit with a cup of coffee or tea on the porch or by the window and watch them sing, chatter, play, court one another, feed at the feeder, and rear their young.

Then it's time to watch Mom and Dad (who automatically have the title of Flight Instructor) give the young birds their flight lessons, and be amazed once more at the yearly ritual of watching a little feathered being spread it's wings for the first time ~ even register amazement on it's own little face that "flight" is actually happening!!

The sweetness and joy that our feathered friends bring us has brightened many a dark hour and lifted many a dark mood! Direct Artwork is proud to be able to offer you several absolutely gorgeous art prints of our feathered friends by some of the world's most talented artists.

Take, for example, Kim Norlien's "Country Music" ~ an absolutely charming print depicting a male and female cardinal in the countryside where spring is in full bloom, probably delighting the occupants of the farmhouse in the distance with their delightful warbling song!

This lovely print can be found on our website here.

In fact, we have an entire fine art prints collection devoted to ~ what else! Birds! You can find this print and many more beautiful prints depicting our feathered friends ~ learn more......

And, remember, Happy Spring! (even though winter may still stick around for a while)

Direct Artwork Retail Store Grand Opening

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DIRECT ARTWORK – GRAND OPENING ~ Grand Traverse Mall

We are pleased to announce the Grand Opening of our newest wholesale art outlet, DIRECT ARTWORK, located in the south wing of the Grand Traverse Mall, Traverse City, Michigan. Your one-stop shopping location for gifts, special occasions and for your own personal enjoyment in your home or office.

DIRECT ARTWORK offers wholesale - manufacturing prices on an extensive variety of art including:

OAK FRAMED MATTED ART PRINTS ~ http://oakframedmattedartprints.directartwork.com/ FOLK, COUNTRY, PRIMITIVE FRAMED ART ~ http://primcountryfolkartprints.directartwork.com/ FRAMED PHOTO MEMORY MATS ~ http://photomemorymats.directartwork.com

PERSONALIZED POETRY and FIRST / LAST NAME MEANINGS: The number of variables for this item is unlimited. We have poems for every special occasion, personalized just they way you would like it to read. We also have the meanings of 3,000 first and last names. Both can be framed while you wait.

CUSTOMIZED ART AND PHOTO MATS ~ We have on-site a state-of-the-art Wizard computerized mat cutter. The limits are endless with what we can do for your art or photo matting needs. We handle high volume mat cutting or if you just need a mat or two for that special project.

Our Mission is to supply Northern Michigan with quality framed art at reasonable prices. DIRECT ARTWORK is located in the Grand Traverse Mall (South Wing), 3200 South Airport Road WestTraverse City, MI 49684 ~ Phone:1-888-WEB-ARTZ (932-2789)

A Celebration of Freedom

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Freedom Riders by Artist Greg Benson

A motorcycle rider crosses over the creek on a stone bridge to join a gathering of friends for an evening of celebration. It is early and people have just started to arrive. The bonfire has been lit.

An example from the earliest days of motorcycling is already drawing people to the barn.

America's history of freedom and independence, (hidden images of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Paul Revere in the trees), is demonstrated perfectly by the motorcycle and those that ride them, and Greg Benson's powerful oil painting inspires us all to gather with friends and share our experiences.

All of Greg Benson’s limited edition prints are produced using only the finest museum quality acid free paper with colorfast inks. Each aspect of producing every limited edition print is closely supervised by Greg Benson to insure it’s quality and integrity to the original oil painting.

Greg Benson’s canvas editions are produced using the same exacting standards and using the highest quality wrap-around artist grade canvas.

Direct Artwork is proud to be able to offer this fine art print to you, along with many other examples of outstanding collectible gallery quality prints and considerable savings to you ~ our prices are up to 50% off retail and we offer free shipping and free sales tax when shipping to the Lower 48 United States. We offer generously discounted shipping to Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. Visit Direct Artwork today for more exciting and fantastically well executed collectible artwork!

Every Little Boy's Dream

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Every little boy's dream is to ride that big red fire truck or be a policeman because you get to drive around with the lights flashing and the siren on. It is a precious dream of childhood innocence that doesn't carry the heaviness of the adult world and the implications of those sirens on ~ personally I think childhood innocence is a lovely thing and I wish the world could be a simpler place like that.

But since it cannot be, we can look back on that dream fondly and keep the dream alive with a beautiful nostalgic print that depicts the dream. Direct Artwork has a number of prints that do exactly that!

This print is called Childhood Dreams and it is by artist Dan Hatala. It's got all the ingredients ~ big red shiny firetruck, the firehouse dalmation, and the little boy with his own firetruck toy complete with a ladder on each side. Perhaps he's visiting his dad, who is a fireman. One will never know, but you can be sure of one thing ~ this little boy is dreaming of what he will do when he grows up!

Another great print is To Protect and Serve, by artist Charles Freitag.

This print depicts an Army officer, a policeman, and a fireman. What little boy doesn't entertain the idea of going into some kind of law enforcement, or becoming a soldier? This print is also very suitable for a loved one who is in one of these fields.

We hope you've enjoyed looking at a couple of our Nostalgia collectible art prints! To see more, simply visit our entire Nostaliga collection right here!

Framed Photo Memory Mats Now Available at Direct Artwork!

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Direct Artwork is proud to announce the arrival of a fun way to capture your photographic memories of family events, sporting events, the arrival of precious new babies, family photos of loved ones, grandkids and just about any memory you can take a picture of with our new framed photo memory mats! All My Grandkids shown above is just one of the many ways to show off those special family photos. Our Baby, shown above with hearts, is simply a most adorable way to show off the newest little bundle of joy in your life.

You can be SO creative with these photo memory mats because YOU design them! They are NOT pre-cut mats.......... you can order the wording you want as well as any special symbols you might want included like the hearts in the example above.

To see a page full of ideas on the different kinds of framed photo memory mats you can order from Direct Artwork, simply click here. Contact info on how to order is also right there on the page.

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Interior Decorating with Collectible Art

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Have you every wondered what part fine framed collectible art plays in the world of interior decorating or simple home decor?

Finding just the right piece for that particular spot in your home can be a time consuming, exasperating and sometimes expensive endeavor, and then, what looked fabulous in the store just doesn't do the trick in your home. Disappointing or what?

Whether the trouble spot in a home is the upstairs landing, the hallway by the front door, or that dingy little corner where there is not even adequate space to put a little table and a basket of flowers, fine collectible art will pull you out of that decorating jam every time.

Art tells the story of joy, adventure, tranquility, beauty, humor ~ you name it.

A beautiful piece of collectible art can put a smile on your face no matter what is happening during the day just as well as it can light up a dingy little corner and turn it into a place you look forward to passing through.

Take, for example, Afternoon Reflection by Egidio Antonaccio.

Hang this in the decorating trouble spot, and you will always have a bright, cheerful, yet peaceful and tranquil place "to go away to" ~ and when you don't need to escape, the gorgeous hues and colors of this artist's palette and portrayal of an almost surreal place hidden in a lush mountaintop will make that landing or hallway one of the show places of your home.

Find out more about this particularly stunning print here.

Fine collectible framed art such as this can be your ace in the hole when decorating or re-decorating your home. Not only is it an economical way to enhance the ambience of any room, but it is also affordable to build your collection a piece at a time and your collection can only go up in value.

Remember, Direct Artwork offers FREE SHIPPING and FREE SALES TAX for orders placed within the Lower 48 United States. Discounted Shipping for Alaska, Hawaii and Canada.

Middle of the Winter ~ Fire and Ice

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Picture yourself in the middle of the winter, out for a moonlit walk in the cold fresh air by your cabin at the lake. There's been a fresh pure white snowfall, heavy and glistening making every tree branch sparkle.

It's so quiet outside you can hear the last of the falling snowflakes settling down gently on every surface they touch......... a quiet, magical sound like the whispers of the angels.

The lake has turned to ice, great clear sheets of ice picking up the reflections of the towering northern timbers of the forest, picking up the shimmer of the January full moon, and the dancing, multicolored rays of the beginning of a fantastic aurora borealis light show in the sky.

You make yourself a fire to warm your hands, taking in every fragrant whiff of the aromatic boughs of cedar and fir trees.

Slowly the clouds clear and one by one the stars come out after the snowfall, as if someone was turning on the celestial lights in the night sky one by one.

The magical silence is broken every so often by the distant howl of a wolf in the great woods to the north of you. It's as if he and his pack are also celebrating the snowfall, the scent of the night, and the celestial light show lighting up the midnight sky with you.

OK........... back to the real world!

It was nice though wasn't it, to go to that wonderful, magical place deep in the north woods?

You can take this wonderful place with you into the real world ~ and keep it with you in your home or office as long as you like and go to whenever the world gets crazy.

How?

Kim Norlien's Fire and Ice comes in two sizes ~ 17 x 21 (small) and 23 x 39 (medium) and is a stunning interpretation of this deep middle of winter magical world. An outstanding print with exquisite detail, equally exquisite coloring and pure artistry.

Direct Artwork compliments this lovely print with a hand crafted, beautiful medium oak frame and eyecatching, color coordinated double matting. And with FREE shipping and FREE sales tax for orders placed in the Lower 48 United States and discounted shipping to Alaska, Hawaii and Canada we make the acquisition of this outstanding collectible art print easy for you to add to your art collection in your home or office.

Welcome to Direct Artwork

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Our website is almost finished except for our Framed Photo Memory Mats............. we'll be posting a little something every few days about our handcrafted oak framed art, our primitive and country art, news and tidbits about the company, what to look for when buying collectible framed art, and some of our artist's bio's ~

So for starters, here's a little background on Direct Artwork, the company ~

North Country Crafts / Direct Artwork was established in 1986 in the natures own Marinette, Wisconsin. We specialize in the manufacture and distribution of handcrafted oak framed art prints that bring nature and amazing scenery into your home. We carry a large selection of fine art prints that include rustic cabins and cottages, lighthouses and a variety of popular animals and wildlife including deer, ducks, eagles, wolves, bears and moose. We also carry limited edition prints,numbered prints and collectible art signed by the artist.

Your art selections are professionally matted and hand framed at our Wisconsin facility. Superior craftsmanship and attention to detail compliments the excellent materials that we use. Our professional staff ensures that each Direct Artwork framed print will be a valued and treasured gift and a welcome fine art addition to your home or business.

We are a family owned and operated business with a strong belief that customer satisfaction is our highest priority.

Browse the selections and enjoy. We look forward to your feedback, questions and opportunity to show you why Direct Artwork is your one-stop shopping source for quality framed nature prints.

Direct Artwork/North Country Crafts W1830 Old Peshtigo Road Marinette, WI 54143 Phone: 888-WEB-ARTZ (932-2789) Visit our website: http://www.directartwork.com