Mural Painting: Prayers for Paris

Mural Painting: Prayers for Paris

This Sunday morning as we say our prayers, Paris is foremost on our minds. Paris, the beautiful “City of Lights” fell under attack two days ago. I first saw Paris as a small child. Living in Germany, where my father was stationed for the U.S. Air Force, my parents made sure we traveled and saw as much of Europe as possible. Although just a young girl, I can still recall that the city of Paris was alive and vibrant. Her views were simply breathtaking. And, of course, her food is totally superb.

With my parents and little sister, on top of the Eiffel Tower, 1971 :

Today’s art blog is dedicated to Paris. Our prayers and thoughts and love go out to her citizens, our friends-allies-and cousins in freedom.

Mural of a French bistro painted for a breakfast dining room:

Painted for a teenager's headboard wall:

My children were used as my models for a Geography Book on the chapter covering the continent of Europe: 

With love to Paris, 

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Faux Painting: House of Sand and Sea

Faux Painting: House of Sand and Sea

Southwest Florida is amazing! A true paradise! Some of us are lucky enough to live here all year long, but we welcome visitors. In fact, tourism is one of the biggest industries in SW Florida. If you haven’t visited here yet, grab your swimsuit and sunscreen and head on down to the southern sunny side of the U.S. For guide to our tropical oasis visit: http://www.southwestfloridatravelguide.com/florida-beaches

Our sunny Gulf Coast was the inspiration for this SW Florida home. Starting at the entry way, the tone of the home is set with gentle blues and greens faux painted onto the dual level tray ceiling:

 As you enter into the entry side room the entry ceiling colors continue onto the tray ceiling and are blended in with a soft metallic sand beige:

This rooms walls are complimented with a tone on tone faux wash picked up from the rooms matting around tropical art work:

The living room tray ceiling is faux painted in beachy sand tones:

The guest room focal wall is painted in underwater tones allowing the art work to pop:

The master bedroom is a relaxing retreat with the headboard wall painted in Sherwin Williams “Underseas” and the ceiling tray faux painted in deep metallic water tones:

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Faux Finishing: Play with Passion

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Faux Finishing: “What Can Brown Do For You”?

Faux Finishing: “What Can Brown Do For You”?

Companies put some serious dollars into coming up with catchy campaign slogans. Why? Because a catchy phrase helps you identify, remember, and relate to their products so that you buy them. And the best phrases become enveloped into our everyday vocabulary. Admit it, you have repeatedly used the Verizon Wireless slogan ….”Can You Hear Me Now”? We use that for everything. How many remember the days of the now historically famous “Where’s the Beef”? Or Life Alert’s “I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up”? Right now Frosted Flakes is promoting their “Flakes for Fuel, Frosting for Fun campaign”, but come on… we all know their best phrase was Tony the Tiger uttering “They’re G-r-r-reat”! Although UPS retired their campaign slogan “What Can Brown Do For You?” in 2010, every time the UPS truck comes down my road that phrase pops into my head.  So good job UPS! ( to learn more about the benefits of a good campaign slogan: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-ad-slogans-31343.html )

The slogan "What Can Brown Do For You"? popped into my head while I was faux painting for a client based on ...you guessed it- the color brown. The home's interior was warm and tropical. They wanted their entry way to be a stunning feature as guests entered their home , as all good entries should be! 

The entry walls are treated with a base of buttery cream topped with a brown glaze treatment. Then I painted on an overlay of tropical foliage using browns and highlighted in copper and bronze. The foliage shapes where derived from the client's wood carved mirror frame.

Close-Ups of the foliage:

The foliage was carried onto the archway as you enter into the living area:

The soaring entry ceiling is painted in deep brown metallic with glints of bronze, copper, and golds:

( Once the newly ordered chandelier is in place, I’ll post up a new photo of the ceiling )


Post script: 12-15-2015: Entry light is now up and is gorgeous! Here's the ceiling view with chandelier on and with chandelier off:

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Mural Painting: Jammin' To Heavy Metal

Mural Painting: Jammin’ To Heavy Metal

What’s your favorite Heavy Metal group? Black Sabbath? Twisted Sister? Judas Priest? Heavy metal inspires us to kick up our heels…just ask “ Laurel and Hardy” who enjoyed a little AC/DC now and then… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjhyYhFnLgE 

Heavy Metal is also the point of inspiration in the mural paintings below. Only this time the "Heavy Metal" isn't of the musical genre, but metal art hangings.

This glorious local Heron is one of the favorites here in Southwest Florida :

Here’s the client’s heavy metal inspiration piece:

A second Heavy Metal Art Piece inspired the Master bath motifs:

Inspiration piece:

You can see by the clothes I really get into my paintings:

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Mural Painting: Cowabunga Dude!

Mural Painting: Cowabunga Dude!

It’s only fair that we devote a little bit of time to that adorable creature – the Turtle. After all, we’ve devoted art blogs to dogs, cats, and birds. So today is all about turtles. I love turtles! I have what I call a herd of them at my home on “Baker’s Pond”. Every evening my husband and I visit with our buddies and they’ve gotten to know our voices and many swim right up to us. We’ve given most of them names based on how they act or look. A few examples: “Chip” is the name of a very large turtle, so named because his shell has a chip missing. One turtle is slower than the rest, so we call him “Old Man”. We have a turtle named “Red” because his shell has a reddish tint. And so on, but you get the idea – I love turtles! So I’m always delighted when I’m asked to incorporate these “lizards on the half shell” into mural creations.

These delightful characters were requested for the kid’s bathroom. Many years later after the children had grown and moved on to college, they insisted their parents not paint over them so they could enjoy them when they visited home:

Crush:

Squirt:

This little guy is a part of a large bathroom mural measuring 11’x8’:

Full mural view:

Excerpt from a restaurant’s outdoor dining mural:

Often when painting a mural I like to put in hidden treasures. These little cuties are all comfy and basking in sunshine in a guest room’s tropical mural:

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