Vintage Looking Wall Art Ideas


Vintage looking wall art is a great way to add a vintage inspired look to a farmhouse style home or for a vintage lover. On my website I have lots of vintage looking wall art available for sale. To see vintage looking wall art, keep reading! 


Vintage looking wall art 

Daffodil
CA$90.00



artwork made with a doily

These vintage doilies are collected from the thrift store and used with poured abaca pulp then flattened in a paper making press to expose the beautiful texture of the found vintage doilies. Many of the artwork made with a doily are neutral in their design and they all come unframed. They would look great framed in white or wood with a white matte.


Alternatively, you can take them to a professional framer or the framing department at Michael’s and they will give you some opinions on some framing options that would best suit the work. 


There are also a few white vintage doilies that have been poured with denim pulp. These vintage looking wall art pieces have high contrast and would lovely framed in white or wood.


Wildflower cyanotypes

These cyanotypes are made through a vintage process of how they used to create blueprints for buildings. The cyanotype process has been around for many years. 



Wildflower cyanotypes would look lovely framed in a wooden frame or a white frame with a nice white matte to them. Wildflower cyanotypes resemble vintage, old-fashioned inspired posters of wildflowers for botanical studies. Wildflower cyanotypes are great for a gardener or someone who loves flowers. 


Other vintage looking wall, art ideas: 

You can go to a thrift store and collect lots of baskets. Often baskets are sold for a couple of dollars. You can arrange baskets as a grouping hanging on the wall to create a very cool, abstract, vintage looking design.

Baskets have lots of great texture baskets come in variety colours, but often neutral colours, which will go great with the design in your rooms, alternatively, you can use as storage purposes on coffee, tables, or end tables and can really help give a vintage look to your home, while serving as a functional purpose to hide your belongings and act as storage and organization for all of your things.


If you are looking for a vintage looking wall that you can do it yourself, you can collect doilies from the thrift store, give them a code of paint and use them to print on canvas to create a doily print as wall art. 

Rainbow Field 4
CA$110.00


I have created 8 1/2 x 11” abaca pieces of paper with thread embroidered drawings to represent an abstract aerial view of farm fields. These pieces have a lovely neutral design and the shade of paper gives a good vintage and antique look these artworks are minimal and neutral, and look lovely, hanging as a gallery wall in your home. 

You can add vintage looking wall art from the thrift store. The thrift store always has vintage inspire or actual vintage paintings or vintage embroideries that can be framed and hung on the wall in your home. There are tons of vintage looking wall art available at the thrift store you can also find vintage looking art from garage sales or on Facebook marketplace. You just have to keep your eyes peeled for deals.


Creating a gallery wall

it’s nice to have a common theme of a colour or maybe a theme of flowers and try to have artwork that communicate with each other that are close and proximity to one another. You can also have a gallery wall that has similar frames like maybe all of the art and wood or black or white and this helps create a cohesive feel to your gallery wall.

For adding vintage looking wall art to your home, you can also consider the curtains or window decorations in your home. You can purchase lace tablecloth or lace curtains. You can purchase different vintage fabrics or vintage embroideries to turn into your own curtains very easily with the sewing machine curtains can help give a vintage looking wall art feel, and really relate with the artwork that you have chosen on the walls in your home.



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Valentine's Day Gift Ideas for Friends

I have compiled a list of Valentine’s Day gift ideas for friends to help you with getting a friend or family member something nice for Valentine’s Day!  Valentine’s Day is a great way not only to show the love for your partner but for people who are always there for you like your closest friends. Here are some great Valentine’s Day gift ideas for friends! 

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 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Friends


For the Friend with Great Taste! 

These gifts are for a best friend who owns their own home and is looking to redecorate or turn a new house into a home. Original artwork helps to bring a design to completion and make a room something special where you enjoy spending your time. 

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 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Friends Who Like Coffee! 

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For the Friend that Loves Clothes! 

Check out the Daisy T-shirt 



 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Friends Who Enjoy a Sentimental Card! 

Check out the Daisy Cards!



 Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Friends Who Like Stickers! 

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For the Friend that is Hard to Buy for! 

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Valentine’s Day is about showing and telling people you care about that you love them. I wish you all a happy Valentine’s Day this year and every year! 




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Wild Flowers of Ontario Project

I am doing a project with wild flowers of Ontario, specifically wild flowers of Waterloo Region, where I am from. I got a microgrant to do this project from Pat the Dog Theatre Company for $1000. This project pays for a week of work for emerging artists living in Waterloo Region.


The microgrant was awarded to 35 emerging artists in Waterloo Region. For the grant, I proposed to make a series of cyanotype prints of different wildflowers in Waterloo Region. I also proposed completing cyanotypes on different surfaces like canvas, fabric and wood. 

I am grateful to have received this grant and to be able to be paid for my time, research and the cost of materials to be able to make this project possible! 


Although, I have completed the flowers of ontario/Waterloo Region project. I know there are a lot more flowers of Ontario. I would love to have a large wall of flowers of Ontario cyanotypes. 

wild flowers of Ontario cyanotype by Jackie Partridge

Here are Some the Wild Flowers of Ontario I Have Made: 

  • Red clover 

  • White clover 

  • Buttercup 

  • Forget me not

  • Teasel 

  • Oxeye daisies 

  • Goldenrod 

  • Queen Anne’s Lace 

  • And more!


To see more pictures from my wild flowers of Ontario project -check out my instagram @jackiepartridge_


 If you have ideas for what wild flowers of Ontario I should use next please send me a DM or comment below in this blog post! 

What did I Learn from the Wild Flowers of Ontario Project?

There are a ton of wildflowers in Ontario and within the Waterloo Region. I was always surprised by all the types of wildflowers I could find within a small area like along the side of the road. Using a wildflower guide is a helpful way to identify different types of wildflowers. Often you can tell different types apart by their colour, leaf shape or the way the petals form. 

cyanotype of wild flowers of Ontario

What is a Cyanotype?

A cyanotype is a sun print that uses a chemical process coated on paper. When the chemicals are exposed to UV the yellow chemicals turn blue in colour. If you place something on top of the coated paper it will leave behind a beautiful white print! 

Learn how to make a cyanotype here!


See the Collection of Wildflower Cyanotypes



What will I do with the Cyanotypes of Wild Flowers of Ontario?

I hope to make more cyanotypes of wildflowers, covering all the flowers in Ontario one day. I will be using these designs and scanning them as digital files to make prints like cards, stickers and art prints. I will be selling my originals on my website before the holidays.


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