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Old 05-08-2012, 02:28 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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I also got a really cool oil painting of a bad@ss pirate ship for 5 bucks at a garage sale once. Sometimes you get lucky
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Old 05-08-2012, 02:43 PM
 
Location: Texas
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"Garden Ridge" in Schertz.
"Deck the Walls" in Rolling Oaks Mall.
"Hobby Lobby" at the Forum, but a small selection.
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Old 05-08-2012, 02:59 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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If you don't mind breaking away from the canvas idea, you can go out with your camera and get some shots blown up. You can make them b&w or a tone that matches your room. You can take close up detailed shots, or landscapes, or go for a theme like the missions or river shots, or be a tourist for a day and brave downtown.

A lot of the cheap canvas stuff at Ross / TJ Maxx / Marshalls are actually prints that someone brushed some shellac or something over them to give the look of "brushstrokes."

Or if you're so inclined, you can take your digital image and use editing software to make it look painted.

You can get cheap frames at Dollar Tree. And you can hang small collections of frames in a way that they take up the same space as a bigger frame, if you wanted something for above your sofa or something like that.

Just some ideas.
Building on the photo idea, you can get your photos printed on canvas too...google gallery wrap photo prints to see some. That's a little expensive, though, for the bigger ones.
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Old 05-09-2012, 07:34 AM
 
Location: Beacon Hill
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Definitely HomeGoods, TjMaxx, Marshalls. Sounds like just what you want. I also just tried "Painting with a Twist" look it up - really fun and a cheap way to get some art of your own that looks good even if you're not artistic.
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Old 05-15-2012, 08:45 PM
 
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zgallery at la cantera
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Old 05-16-2012, 03:06 PM
 
Location: I live south of San Antonio in a place called Atascosa.
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You could put some jigsaw puzzles together and glue them and frame them.

Last edited by Dwangle; 05-16-2012 at 03:11 PM.. Reason: I didn't realize jigsaw was one word
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