Stop staring at your bare walls and browse the Internet for affordable art to match your decorating scheme. Hundreds of online merchants sell inexpensive artwork for children's rooms, living areas, kitchen and dining areas and more.
Here are a few online art retailers who offer some of the most unique, eye-catching, and cheap art for the frugal family's home.
The Art Farmer
Selling hand silkscreen printed wall art in a variety of styles and colors, The Art Farmer delivers designs of various sizes on cotton or cotton-blend fabric stretched over hardwood frames. The lightweight artwork arrives ready to hang or prop on a shelf, with no glass to break from an inadvertent tumble.
Choose wall art from the following categories: Animal, Beach, Contemporary, Country, Floral, Kids, Lodge, Nature, Resort, and Vintage. The 18-inch-by-30-inch, red-on-aqua Bikini Print (pictured below) is a bestseller. The original designs spring from the creative minds of a handful of artists, some of whom have changed their names on The Art Farmer "to make you think they are more interesting," according to the site. Prices range from $30 to $66. Shipping varies with UPS.
20X200
"We believe everyone needs art," claims the 20x200 Web site. An online project of New York City gallery owner Jen Bekman, 20x200 sells original photography and fine-art prints, the smallest size printed in an edition of 200. Generally 8-1/2-inches-by-11-inches, these 200 small prints are listed at $20, hence the name for the company. Larger sizes of the same prints sell for $200 and $2,000. At $20 a pop for a small original artwork, nearly anyone can become an art collector. A certificate of authenticity numbered by the artist accompanies every purchased print. Two new pieces (one photograph and one fine-art print) go online each week. Small print price: $20, plus $8.50 priority shipping ($3 for each additional print).
Allposters.com
Cover an empty wall quickly with large paper prints and posters at Allposters.com. Plaster your room with prints by famous artists, movie posters and images, pictures of your favorite rock band, and, of course, cats. "Cat's Pet," pictured below, sells for $19.99 for a 16" x 24" poster. Mounting the poster on wood raises the price to $80.99.
Prints of famous paintings, like Edvard Munch's "The Scream," are available for $17.99 for a 24" x 36" poster. Allposters.com features prints by renowned artists including Kandinsky, Klimt, Picasso and van Gogh. Shipping starts at $3.99. Allposters.com frequently posts percent-off and free-shipping sales.
Judith Zwolak - Judy is a mother of two and a freelance writer living in South Dakota. Raised by notoriously frugal parents, she comes by her family ...
