Finn

Kaly

I will soon upload pictures of the room I designed this painting to go with. Kaly's mom chose a Pottery Barn quilt with circles in pink and green for her daughter and I designed the painting and room to match.
I have to give credit to Liz Tran, an amazing artist for the idea on this painting. I am definitely in her debt.
This painting is 24" x 36". I's one of my biggest yet, and definitely the largest name painting that I have done. It was a lot of fun to have a bigger canvas to fill up. I will definitely do more large paintings after this.

Dragons about

I have been working on designing my friend Janese's house. We did all new flooring, (6" plank dark hardwood with a hand hewn look; SO gorgeous! We did all new paint, and lots of new furniture and accessories.

This is what we did in her son's room.

We ended up getting a different Quicksilver bedspread in tan orange and chocolate stripes.
But we still needed some artwork. She hired me to do 2 paintings for his room. I chose really warm grey in two values for the walls with deep orange as the accent color and her son is Way into dragons. So he got dragons.

This one is a rough take on a topographical view of a lake in Siberia frozen over called Dragon Lake.

I think they turned out pretty cool and I hope he really likes them. (he seemed to, but it's sort of hard to tell with teenage boys.)

Feedback please.

Yellow Morning

My friend Eric used to say that there are two kinds of painters; those who do real art, and those that paint something to match your furniture. I have resented that assumption for years because I think I can do both. Since I am often designing the room the painting will go in as well, I often think of the art as an accessory. I always think about the room the painting is going to go in before I paint because a painting that has no reference to the space doesn't have as much meaning. This painting, however, might have been a bit of a turning point for me. I felt like it came straight from my heart. I didn't create it to match anything except what was going on inside me. It was very liberating to paint with no destination in mind. I love it finished and want to design a room for it to go in. This time the art definitely comes before the room. I think it would look great above a mantle or even a small couch. I love that it is in panels. It is also on canvas that is 2 1/2" thick which makes it really cool from the side too.

in progress...

first analysis.... needed a few changes....

Finished!
I would love feedback on this one, negative and positive... what do you see, how does it make you feel? Would you like it in your home? Where does it belong?

Olivia!

Here's my latest. This goes with a set of 3 I did previously. I'm really happy with it and can't wait to do more. Doing this painting made me fall in love with the name Olivia! I hope they love it!

Thomas

This zoo themed painting is for a darling girl from the UK named Sam who is giving it to her friend when baby Thomas is born. She asked me to add the fantasy character you can see peeking between the M and the A. He is from a popular cartoon in the UK. It's a running joke between the families. What a great idea to personalize this already unique shower gift. I hope baby Thomas loves it.

Jack

I finished this name painting for little Jack.
He better be a patient little baby because he had a bit of a wait on this one. I hope he loves it!