I didn’t get a chance to finish this Saturday, but thought I’d go ahead and post it anyway. I’ll finish it up later this week. The mural is for two pretty sisters – 4 & 5 years old – who share this wonderful girly-girl lavender room. I’ll take pictures of the whole room later because […]
Fireplace Mantel Redo
This mantel started out bright white. Quite stunning, but just too stark on the muted rock wall. It really stood out in the room. And you really don’t want any one thing to grab your attention in a room. You want everything to ‘go together’, don’t you think? The first thing I did was add […]
Sweet Sunflowers
I know it’s not the season for them, but the bright sun streaming in the windows this morning made me think of sunflowers. Then I realized I had painted sunflowers in a few different ways and thought it’d be fun to do a collection. This is my favorite – just because of the detail. It […]
Painting of Disney’s “Iridessa”
I was thrilled when I got the commission to paint one of Disney’s fairies. Who doesn’t love Disney? And now that they’ve included characters of color, all little girls have princesses & fairies that look like them. Some of you know my husband is black, which means all of most of our huge extended family […]
Baby Name Canvas
I love painting anything – absolutely anything. But there’s nothing sweeter than painting something for a new baby. Last week I got 3 new commissions – all of them Disney based, so I was prepared to spend the weekend on them. However, we were invited to a baby shower on Saturday. I knew I’d eventually […]
Wine Cellar Mural
Well, it’s not really a cellar, but wine ‘closet’ just didn’t sound as appealing. First, let me just say how much I love these clients. I met them years ago when I was a floral designer in a craft store and she was planning her daughter’s wedding. I wound up doing all the flowers for […]
His & Hers Bedroom Mural
I’ve said before the cool thing about painting commissioned murals is the fact that I can make them personal for my clients. It’s like going to the hairdresser – they take an hour to do your hair, but you’re the one who has to live with it! Same with painting. I don’t always agree with […]
How I work . . .
Well, I mean, when I’m doing a commissioned painting, that is. Usually my clients have some sort of idea of what they want. Maybe they know the colors, or maybe the image. Although sometimes they really don’t have any idea. For the wall hanging above, this is how we started. She wanted something for her […]