It has been fun painting on such large canvases, and since each project is different, just like each client, its always a new challenge.
Painted aviary in clients hallway.
painted shelves with purses, hats and shoes.
Metallic faux ceiling and molding, painted branches and blossoms.
Blue metallic finish in panels with hand painting.
The two statues are holding up real lights
Tonal mural in bathroom
painted strips, scrolls of sheet music and trumpet
Fauxed ceiling with hand painted designs
Painted arched ceiling with skylight.
Kitchen mural of clients vineyards.
Italian mural painted on board in niche of fireplace.
Hand painted kitchen hood.
Painted mural of vineyards behind which is the TV.
8 foot mural of California vineyards.
Artistic Finishes of all sorts are found here. Painted, leafing and glazing.
A warm, soft suede finish on walls
Walls were done in a soft, sueded Faux and glaze. The moldings and mirror silver leafed and antiqued.
A soft sueded faux on walls, copper metallic ceiling.
A suede faux on walls in shades of red.
Sueded faux on walls and ceiling with pearlescent golden glaze fauxed over top.
Sueded faux on walls and ceiling with pearlescent gold and copper glaze fauxed over top.
Soft sueded faux on walls and ceiling, gold leafed light medallions..
Brushed silver metallic walls.
Frescoed walls, ceiling and moldings done in layers of sanded milkpaint and glazes.
Gold leaf ceiling.
This room and all the paneling was original white, we glazed the paneling a deep caramel, fauxed the soffitts and the beams we gold leafed and then aged. The fireplace we did a painted bronze finish.
Trompe L'oeil: to fool the eye...
We turned an odd piece of wall into a dove cote in the aviary.
Painted music sheet of :When You Wish Upon A Star" with Venetian mask.
We painted this skylight in a girls room, I love painting monkeys in suits!
Same room, this guy got in!
Painted skylight with doves.
We painted this ceiling in a powder room to look like red embroidered silk.
Painted magnolias in niches.
We did the faux on the wall as well as the tear. The chickadees are native so we added them to the scene.
Wine cellar mural
Wine cellar mural at the other end.
Game room mural of pool balls.
Painted drapes on a soft faux.
Painting of clients dog Maggie.
Here you will find some examples of our painted furniture.
Sometimes you don't realize that painting or finishing furniture can cost more than painting walls. There are so many steps involved; prepping, priming, sanding, first coats, sanding ,second coats, sanding, antiquing, gold leafing, antiquing again..... it goes on and on. But the result is one of a kind, special, and lovely, so in the end its worth it!
Multi-layers of Milk Paint, red base, then two layers of different shades of green. sanded back and then oil glazed with gold leaf accents.
Hand Painted Armoire.
Multi Layers of Soft green Milk paint sanded back to show darker layers, oil glaze and then Gold leafed accents.
Two Shades of blue milk paint sanded back, oil glazed and gold leaf accents.
Please be advised, The Carousel Litho's are generally $150.00 if you purchase new, directly from me. If you want to purchase one, email me your request.
I do NOT know the current value of any of the Lithographs on the secondary market.
I don't resell or purchase any of my Litho's from people wanting to sell theirs, nor do I know where you can try and resell them. I can't respond to email or phone messages regarding these questions, there are just to many. SORRY!
My Grandfather was my biggest supporter, larger than life and a great salesman. When I was 18, during the Teddy Bear craze, he took my teddy-bear watercolors into a little shop called Bears In the Woods and sold them my art, After that I couldn't paint fast enough and he sold them to more stores. I then started painting carousel and bam, they sold like hotcakes. He decided to have lithographs made so I wouldn't burn out painting them and he sold and distributed them all over the world. At 19 it was such fun going into a shop at Disney Land and seeing my work!
I truly am grateful for all he did, and the fun we had traveling to galleries and shops together meeting people. He gave me confidence in myself and in my art, and allowed me to make a living doing what I love...
The last carousel I painted and one of my favorites.
Poster we had printed, again one of my favorites.
Companion to Dandylion and his complete opposite.
A small selection of my Oil Paintings
Love Venetian Plaster, feels like silk, its reflective and just beautiful.
Warm Terracotta red venetian plaster on bathroom walls and ceiling.
Two colors of deep gold venetian plaster on walls and ceiling.
Here we did a gold metallic base with creamy venetian plaster over, allowing the gold to peek through here and there, we then glazed it and then over the top we did a super scaled hand painted design in gold metallic glaze.
Buff colored venetian plaster on wall and ceiling in hall, painted finish on doors and molding.
iridescent pearl Venetian plaster on walls and ceiling.
Two shades of gold venetian plaster in kitchen.
Golden venetian plaster in kitchen, with hand painted lettering.