Love it or not, Valentine's Day is just over two weeks away. So in honor of those that anxiously await flowers and chocolates to those who dress in black and everyone in between, here are some prints that avoid being cloyingly sweet, but are still all about love.
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT:
1 - The Original ABC Love (Screen Printed) from jenniferramos, $39
2 - Give Love print from inkdesigner, $10
3 - Lovemonster from laurageorge, $15
4 - Robots in Love Print - ruby red from mengseldesign, $15
5 - San Francisco Love gocco art print from artsharkdesigns, $15





Comments (10)
My favorite is the artsharkdesigns print -- it's a bit less obvious, but still very sweet. Plus, that Etsy shop stocks other cities, with the same umbrella couple.
I just purchased some notecards from artshark and LOVE them! She does a great job...
LOVEMONSTER!!!!
the ABC Love concept is awesome! looks beautifully framed...
Lovely prints, though the San Francisco print would be even more lovely if it also came in an alternate same sex version (male-male couple, and a version with female-female couple)-considering the specific city depicted and the fact that it's 2010 not 1810, it might be nice for gay people to also be included in this Valentine's celebration (& would probably be more marketable, too).
And to those who are tempted to write in protesting that the SF couple IS single sex, look again: the figure on the left clearly has wider hips and differently styled clothes distinguishing it as female.
@twingirl: I'm not protesting. I hear you. And you have a clever and highly marketable idea for the artist. But the person on the left with the skinny little waist hardly has hips, has a gap between its legs that *real* women rarely have and could be a hipster girl or boy. That looks just like my male friend's butt, and nothing like mine (I'm female). It's a drawing.
Just snatched up the last SF print! It was a toss up between that and the Griffith Observatory.
Paige: Granted, the SF couple does fall on the androgynous side. And it is indeed a drawing, a fact of which I was fully cognizant when I wrote my post. My oh so slight critique was meant to address my displeasure or irritation at the exclusively heterosexual representation of love as presented in the array of prints chosen by AT's editors for Valentine's Day; it was not a directive for the artist to render a new image. Perhaps my post should have been addressed specifically to the AT team, but I (mistakenly?) thought that my point was rather obvious and loomed large. And yes, it is only a picture, but us homosexuals are funny like that: we are by and large really sick of being rendered largely invisible (when we're not being demonized, that is). Perhaps it was the conjunction of the ultimate lovers holiday with the ultimate gay US city that made the invisible homosexual lovers so strikingly visible to me.
I have the ABC Love print but it's not as great once you stare at it day after day - the edges are not wide enough to possibly frame without hiding some of the letters and that fact that LOVE isn't spelled out using instances where they actually show up in the alphabet in order gets frustrating when explaining to children why they are out of order. Nice print in theory but hard to live with just in my opinion.
Yay, Artshark! She's the sister of my friend and so I was able to get an early print of the SF one :-) But she does the same motif set in a lot of major cities (London, Paris, DC. . .), and some really great animals too.