Tag Archives: Trompe L’oeil

Murals

Barn Board Porch Mural

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This mural with a Trompe L’oeil wood surface is painted on the porch of my own home.  For more than 25 years these walls were just a slightly textured, ugly brown, metal surface.   Then ten years ago I decided to paint it!  Thank you to my sister-in-law for suggesting the faux barn board wood surface.  On the wall which is viewed directly from inside my dining room, I painted rambling wild Roses that ‘bloom’ all year long!  On one of the sides I created a strawberry jar loaded with luscious berries.  There are bees that visit the flowers and a butterfly by the strawberries.  On  the other side is a squirrel which initially even startled my cats.  They have ignored it ever since!  In the winter I hang baskets of artificial green plants to keep a little summertime always just on the other side of the sliding door.

Commisioned Work, Stool

Foot Stool with Cut Flowers

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This little footstool was commissioned as a companion piece to the Garden Fence Chest of Drawers.  The Sunflowers and Hollyhocks are painted in the trompe l’oeil style of realism.  They just pop off the surface!   The legs of the stool are the same blue as the sky in the first piece and the faux white slats match those I painted on the top of the chest.   Even the underside continues the illusion of slats.  And, yes, I painted my signature insect; Can you see the lady bug?  It is important that the little side buttons are painted white as they visually connect the top to the base, but I resisted the urge to painted anything additional on the blue surfaces because the stool told me No!!

Cabinet, Furniture, New

Sunset Cloud Bureau

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This four drawer bureau is number 3 in my “Cloud Chest” series.  The sun is hovering at the horizon with a a purple glow that bounces off the low lying clouds around all three sides.  I painted three autumn leaves in Trompe L’oeil style on the cream colored top and tried to use only the colors from the sunset in the leaves while still having three distinctly different colored flora. There is a ladybug as my signature critter.   The “slats’ across the drawer fronts are actually solid pieces of carved wood.  Sorry but this piece sold immediately in the first show in which I presented it.  It stands 37″ tall and is 26″ X 15”.

Commisioned Work, New, Table

Football Table for a Teenager

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This small side table was painted for a middle school young man with football aspirations.   I used his team colors for the uniform as well as  his own jersey number.   The background field is deliberately out of scale so it emphasizes the ideal football player as he ‘flies’ down the field.   On the lower shelf I painted, in the Trompe L’oeil style, a couple of index cards with diagrams of football plays because, well, fool the eye  is what I like to do!!   The table stands 20″ tall and the top is 14″ X 16″ .