~ Decoration Sketches ~

Here are a few decoration sketches I painted for different jobs. I've always found decoration and ornament really interesting and beautiful. In the early days, prior to 1900, artists looked to things that surrounded them for inspiration. What surrounded people back in those days was nature. It was a simpler time as the artists looked at natural forms like shells, plants and flowers, growth patterns of roots and trees as inspiration for decoration and ornament. All decoration generally evolved from these natural forms and are still used today for decoration. A simpler time indeed, perhaps we are missing some of that in our modern era.