Category Archives: New

Quartz Beads on Faux Grey Marble Pedestal Table

This little wooden table has been transformed. The faux marble surface is painted in a range of soft greys on the 14″ round top.  A bead necklace of pale green, lavender and pink quartz with a lotus motif pendant is painted in Trompe l’oeil style.  The necklace looks real enough to pick up and wear!  Of course the marble illusion is painted on the underside too! I kept the colors on the pedestal soft and a little mottled, and paired them with creamy off white and just a little bit of gold banding.   The table stands 25″ tall and weighs 5.5 pounds.  $150.00 plus shipping and handling. Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing this table.

Butterflies, Wild Flowers and Stripes on a Child’s Chair

This little chair is a charmer with wonderful ‘bones’.   It inspired me to paint the cohesive wide soft stripes behind the flowers and butterflies.   All the butterflies are real species and most are native to the Northeastern US which is where the little girl who now owns this chair lives. Of course I would never ignore the back!! Don’t you just love Lunar moths? I chose to paint wild flowers like Chicory and wild Asters which are so much less formal and more likely to be part of a child’s real world.

Giraffe Growth Chart Mural

This tall narrow mural depicts a life size (baby) giraffe as a growth chart.  Showing you the scale of it is the young man we shall be charting. Isn’t he cute?  Well of course he is; He’s my grandson! The giraffe holds a measuring ribbon in his mouth while down at the bottom  a frog holds it taut.  Watch out for the bee in the high grass! I have included a couple of ‘in progress’ photos taken before the ribbon was added, notice the close up of the giraffe’s face.   A unique feature of this mural is that it is hinged in the middle to fold for easy transport or storage, kudos to my son’s father-in-law for building it!

Memory Board for a Family

This Memory Board was a most unusual and challenging project painted on a 30″ X 30″piece of wood .  A gentleman requested that his family business be memorialized in a painting that also portrayed his parents and his siblings.  We chose to give the piece the appearance of a loving collection of photos posted on a bulletin board.  The family patriarch had been a blacksmith who worked first on ice wagons and later converted trucks for specialized needs such as fuel delivery.  The client described the building to me as he recalled it since he only had a modern view for me to use .  The photos of himself and his siblings, from which I worked, were small and not particularly detailed.   I faux painted the border frame right on the wooden board.  I thought it might be interesting for you, the viewer, to see the faded sepia toned photos from which I did the larger portraits.