Reading roundup (kidlit edition), and memes

[hamsterwoman]

October was weird for me with fannish consumption, because I have in my hands two epic fantasy things that I think are actually good (one Hugo homework reading, one a rec off the Serpentcast), and some other things I've been curious about for a while, and I could've gone on to watch season 2 of The Expanse, but instead I've been: a) (re)reading

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[hamsterwoman]

It's funny, because SF art kind of didn't register in my mind as a thing until I went to my first convention and started paying attention to the Hugo voting (which happened around the same time), even though there were of course covers of individual books I loved before that, and of course I've always loved fanart for my fandoms and avidly followed the fanartists I knew on LJ/Tumblr.

I'm not really an art-on-the-walls person (we do have a couple of sentimental-value pieces, but mostly what's occupying our walls are maps, and a few things brought back from our travels), but after browsing some convention dealer rooms, I came to the realization that I'm very much a fannish jewelry person. My favorite purchase from the Worldcon I was at remains my "butterbug" bronze pendant, which I never miss an opportunity to wear to meet-ups with anyone know knows the Vorkosigan Saga, and I spent literal hours browsing the booth of Spring Schoenhuth, who was up for a fanartist Hugo that year.

If you feel like sharing / showing off, what are some of your favorite pieces of art you've acquired at SF conventions?

[loupnoir]

I am very much a "stuff on the walls" sort. My office walls are nearly covered. The rest of the house is a little bit less overwhelming. I tried taking some shots with my phone. There's just enough light to reflect on the glass. Probably my phone's focusing magic dingus.

Is there a way to add images to an answer? I tried more options and didn't see a way to do that.

We collected a fair amount of artwork during the eighties and nineties, and then we drifted away from conventions. The last SF convention we went to was the Boston Worldcon, which got a 10 for location and a 3 for convention. The art show was, as always, the best part for us. However, time has passed and our tastes have changed. I'm trying to figure out how to sell some of our collection, and apparently so are several of my friends. They all want to know how to do the same thing.

I have a piece of Leila Dowling art that I really like. When we got married, we got a Ken Macklin orc (Ken and Leila were married back then.). I've got a few Alicia Austin originals and some of her prints. Plus, stuff and nonsense.

[hamsterwoman]

I think it's still possible to embed images in comments via HTML (i.e. img src = etc.) but I've been storing all of my images off LJ (on Flickr), so I'm not sure if there's any way to do it without an external source...

Boston Worldcon -- would that be 2004? I really enjoyed the only one I've gone to, which was conveniently in San Jose, and hope to be able to attend some more when they're a bit closer to home than the last couple have been.

I tried googling the artists you mentioned, but I'm not sure it's taking me to the right people... No worries if LJ or the phone won't cooperate on the images, though :)