Something a little different for me is this folk art set. The client first requested the chair with a house and red barn in a traditional folk art style. A few months later I painted her jelly cabinet to complete a set. Both sides of the jelly cabinet have pastoral scenes as well.
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.
This little child’s chair is painted as if it were a mural. The chair belonged to the client who gave me free reign to do whatever I wanted and this was the result. The beach scene wraps around all surfaces of the chair. The light house is a famous one, I am sure you recognize it. The model for the hyper-realistic copper sand pail was a miniature pail that I stuck into rice to capture the look I wanted. The seagulls were taken from photos a friend took at the beach. The sand castle which I painted on one of the sides was a particularly difficult challenge.
This mural is painted in acrylic on six unwanted wall mirrors which surrounded a table nook in an average size kitchen. It is quite dramatic when viewed in person. I worked with the client to select motifs that suggested Paris street scenes. All the names and numbers in the mural have specific meaning to the family that commissioned it. I had so much fun doing this mural that I didn’t want this project to end!
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