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).
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!
This charming Victorian table was brought to me by a client along with at least 150 of his own stones to serve as models. I painted about 2/3 of them and also included some from my own collection. He wanted only the table top painted and asked that the remainder of the table be left untouched. It makes me so happy to be painting stones! He was thrilled with the results. Of course there is a bug nestled in among the stones. Can you find it???
This unique table was such a fun commission! It is painted on a vintage table in fluid acrylics. The family for whom I painted it, shared many favorite books together, 14 of which are represented here. They requested I paint several iconic items in Trompe L’oeil, scattered on the table as if they had been ‘left’ by visits from beloved characters . (See how many you recognize before you read further).
There is a wand from Harry Potter, hair ribbons from The Little House on the Prairie, a Mocking Jay pin from the Hunger Games, Percy Jackson’s pen, and a needle and thread from the Quiltmaker’s Gift. There is Turkish Delight candy from The Witch the Lion and the Wardrobe, berries from Blueberries For Sal, and heavily buttered toast from the Mercy Watson books. There is The Very Hungry Caterpillar and the Charlotte’s Web spider, a coin from Half Magic, a blue tea cup from A Bargain for Frances, and a green matchbox car from No Coins, Please. And of course there is the ring and map of Middle Earth from The Hobbit on the lower shelf.
