Proudest MGTOW achievement: Weird art collecting!

CrayonViking · 2021-05-20T21:29:13+00:00

Since I don’t believe in getting married, and I only date casually, I’ve been able to have the extra income to spend on pointless shit that I think is cool.

Plus I get to design my house the way I want. So I collect really bad art!

I collect the original artwork that was used for book covers in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Most are acrylic paintings on masonboard, some are watercolor.

Back in the day, an artist would create a painting, and the publisher would pay to have it scanned and sent to the publisher to be used as the cover.

I’m an artist/writer myself, and I write a lot of young reader books, so having these things around my house inspires me.

My greatest finds that made it to my collection are the original paintings used for the Danny Dunn (boy scientist adventurer) books that I read when I was in middle school. I actually found the person that was in charge of the artists estate after his death.

Also, I own the original artwork used for two Goosebumps books.

Being able to have the actual paintings that were used for the covers of books I used to read when I was young is pretty fucking awesome!

I don’t collect for value, strictly for what I like.

It’s tough and takes a lot of time to find the originals, since most cover paintings were tossed after the book was printed.

I have almost 40 paintings so far. The framing usually costs almost as the paintings since these thing are large and heavy. I’m slowly saving up and getting them framed little by little.

But not having a wife or young child to pay for is what enabled me to get this stuff in the first place. No regrets!

BobbingForBunions · 2021-05-21T00:43:08+00:00

Cool art. And even cooler that some of your pieces are original.

Solo_and_Simple · 2021-05-20T22:55:45+00:00

That's pretty cool, actually. I like how you embrace the "really bad art" angle. That makes me laugh. I like that spirit of spending your extra cash on "pointless shit that I think is cool." I'd like to be more like that, myself. I'm always so practical and pragmatic with my money. It would probably do me good to buy "pointless shit I think is cool."

If I were to do that, I'd get some old science-fiction posters -- the cheesy kind, like from the 50s pulp magazines.

p.s. I like your idea of hunting down covers from books that meant a lot to you as a kid. Sounds like it takes a lot of digging, but I'll bet it's cool to have something like that hanging on your wall.

Melodic-Combination9 · 2021-05-21T07:17:55+00:00

I absolutely love 3rd and 5th! Can I find then on google? I would like to print them

Last_Supermarket302 · 2021-05-21T18:08:27+00:00

Nice... I very much like the gaint coming out of the sea taking photos with his phone XD

confusedwalrus23 · 2021-05-26T23:24:12+00:00

sounds like a cool hobby. I particularly like the 1st and 4th pieces.

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Title	Proudest MGTOW achievement: Weird art collecting!
Author	CrayonViking
Upvotes	1
Comments	19
Date	May 20, 2021 9:28 PM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MGTOW2
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