Tag Archives: Architecture

Blue Colonial House Portrait

January 16, 2015 Sue Banks Leave a comment

The owners of this lovely blue Colonial home commissioned this portrait of their home when they knew they would be moving. I photographed it a few times last summer to catch all the beautiful flowers and then used my artistic license to put them all in bloom together. The piece is painted on a wooden plaque 14″X10″ and is only a little larger in scale than the miniature three dimensional houses I painted exclusively for many years. This was like old times for me and I loved doing it. If you are interested in having a portrait done of your home please contact me.

Cabinet, Chair, Commisioned Work

Folk Art Set

September 20, 2014 Sue Banks Leave a comment

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.

Commisioned Work, New

Memory Board for a Family

February 17, 2014 Sue Banks Leave a comment

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.

Chair, Children's, Commisioned Work

Light house children’s chair

September 25, 2013 Sue Banks Leave a comment

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.