This painting was a commission for an insert on a vintage coffee-table. The client provided all the inspirational stones, the shell, the delicate tiny horseshoe crab, and the wonderful piece of driftwood, as well as the unpainted wood insert. The request was for green marble with subtle markings. I do enjoy painting all the various textures!
This graceful small side table was brought to me by a client to embellish with Trompe L’oeil pearls and shells. She handed me a piece of striped fabric to guide my color scheme and I was off and running. I used a favorite bug pin from my own collection as a model for the ‘clasp’ on the casually piled string of pearls. The gold and garnet fly also represents my signature insect. The table top (27″ X 11″) is painted as faux marble in soft greens with just a few delicate lines threading through it. To keep the illusion of real marble, I even painted the underside of the tabletop, so it would look like an actual piece of stone when you turn the table upside down. Loose pearls of various natural hues sit in a shell on the lower shelf which is painted a solid Sea-foam blue.
