Yesterday I made a post complaining about being stuck inside with Covid instead of doing all the fun things I had been hoping to this week. But it was kind of whiny and so I deleted it. Instead, I'm going to post some pictures of the bedroom walls of which I have been seeing so much recently.
I first moved into my current house back in 2015, but in 2020 I moved out to get a flat with my then-fiancée. This turned out to be one of the worst decisions of my life. Fortunately, last year the person who had taken over my room also decided to move out to be with his partner, and so almost exactly a year ago I moved back into my old room in my old house, where I have been ever since.
Shortly after moving back in, I won a painting award at a wargaming tournament, which I placed on the wall. But having done so, I couldn't help but feel that I wanted to decorate the walls further. And so I started sourcing artwork from a variety of sources to enhance my living space. Early on I bought a large print of a Frank Frazetta painting ready mounted and framed, but this proved to be an expensive option, so the others I framed myself, some with made-to-order custom frames, but most with generic frames bought from Amazon. At first I bought mountings pre-cut from an online framing shop, but after a while I learned to cut them myself. I also learned to seal the frames with framer's tape.
While some of the artwork I bought as prints, a lot of them I couldn't find good sources for, so instead I bought some good quality photographic paper and printed them myself on the big laser printers at work. Given that some of the artwork was quite NSFW, this mostly involved going in after hours or at the weekend where I could use the printers without being disturbed.
Most of the art comes from Fantasy games, especially from the 1980s, but not all.
So here is the current state of my bedroom walls starting with the view from the door:
Getting in closer to the corner above the bed, I have artwork from John Blanche, Larry Elmore and John Sibbick. The first is Kharé, Cityport of Traps, from the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series. In the middle is the cover of the first edition of Shadowrun and one of the first Dragonlance Illustrations. Last is the first edition of Warhammer 40,000 (which was also used for the cover of Bolt Thrower's 1989 album Realm of Chaos):
Here's a slightly clearer shot of the three pictures on the right:
Moving over to the space by the TV, I have four pieces by the late Russ Nicholson. They are all from Fighting Fantasy, two from 1982's The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and two from 1990's Blacksand:
Continuing along the South wall, past the painting award and calendar, above my computer I have the cover of Death on the Reik, a supplement from 1987 for the first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, by Ian Miller, and the cover of Titan, the 1986 Fighting Fantasy sourcebook. Also the TV aerial, which is less decorative:
Moving round to the East wall, next to the door. The art on this wall is not taken from fantasy gaming, although it is all at least partly fantasy-themed. Instead, all of the pictures on this wall feature naked bottoms. The large print is by Frank Frazetta, the other two are by Luis Royo:
I'll come back to this wall in a moment, but for now, I will move on to the North wall. On this wall, in addition to the mirror, I have artworks by H. R. Giger, M. C. Escher, and another by Luis Royo. I also have a poster-map of the Warhammer Old World which I got with the sixth edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battle when it was released. I have put it on several walls over the years, although I hadn't framed it until last autumn.
That's all of the paintings and illustrations I have up, but there are two other pictures on the walls, both of them printouts of photos from SuicideGirls. At one stage I had several other 'pin-up' photos on the walls, but over time I replaced them with more fantasy art, so only these two remain. One is this photo of @riae on the North wall, above the hi-fi and next to the mirror:
The other, which sits above the door, is this photo of @bretema , which sticks to the theme of naked bottoms established for this wall:
Sadly that's all that I have space for in this room, so I have had to stop adding more. And as I said back in January, at this point I'm not sure if it's the framed pin-ups or the 80s fantasy art that most emphatically screams 'the man who lives here sleeps alone'. But I still like it, and since I do sleep alone, and will probably continue to do so for the foreseeable future, that's really all that matters.