I was concerned when I was given 16 small stones and asked to paint them in a grid, on a white (cream) background, on a square canvas (14″ X 14″). In the end, I was delighted! I love this piece. The drama of the individual stones really works. Yes, I did enlarge each stone greatly, but I kept them in their original proportions to each other. I chose to paint minimal but essential shadows.
This was a very unusual table! The clients arrived with both the table and a real dog, asking me to transform their table to look like their Visla breed dog. In addition to changing the solid black sculpted base into the golden brown hues of their dog, I also painted the top and the base to look like rich, black marble. Of course the undersides are also painted like marble to support the illusion that it is real stone! (I’ve included a photo of what the table arrived looking like).
Here are a couple of my Magnolia pieces. The one with the blue background and butterfly is a commission painted on wood. The one with the black background is painted on a 6″ X 6″ canvas and is available for purchase ($85 plus shipping).
This commission was a real fun challenge! Painting her involved combining my fish paintings with my dragon work as well as with the human figure and portrait work which I originally started out with! Such fun!
