Amanda's room(india theme)

Amanda's room....sarah and james wanted a india theme to go with sarah's heritage, so we did the taj mahal,peacock(the bird of india) it has kind of a feeling of living in a jungle as if amanda moved in to the environment with a scarf ,hat and chalk board(hand painted with chalk board paint and then i painted a faux frame around it) hanging from tree branches...the room connects to her sister ava's room which has a jungle theme as well(you can also see this on this blog) i painted /added more images as we went along.

lynn and joe's kitchen ceiling / new jersey

just got back from new jersey.....lynn is a childhood friend of mine( we have been having a great time catching up and creating together) and although i went to work on her daughter mia's room and come up with ideas for her daughter tess's room somehow we started painting the kitchen ceiling !!...just happened naturally,it ended up warming up the area and making it more intimate.i worked with modeling paste to give  some of the vines a three dementional feel then worked with the green tones on leaves,then painted the shadows and used some bronze as highlights....lynn liked the organic way it seemed to be growing .I like the way it changes in the different lighting ....will be going back to finish mia's room which im very proud of and start with tess's room soon.

"and the cow sailed into the harbor" "holy cow harbor day"

for cow harbor day...made two original paintings(then prints on wood) to sell in northport at the firefly gallery. Cow harbor day (so im told) came about when the farmers brought the cows on boats across the harbor for them to graze up and around the hills of northport. later it became a day to celebrate by having a parade then later the cow harbor race for runner's which many people have flew in to be apart of accross the country.

painted dresser for jolie

the dresser i painted in a distressed/old age look that jolie likes and i like to do it (this was march when i took the photo)...i enjoy objects that have a story to tell ,the barn painting above i did of their family barn..jolie has a way of making everything soft,warm and comfortable and that is why i took a photo of austin in the chair . ..everthing is like this with her.today i was doing some less creative painting at the house and the hydrangeas in the back garden were a dark blue purple and we were all admiring them. nice summer weather today.

Ava's room

I painted this about a year ago,ava is now eleven months and walking and starting to talk.Now i am painting her sister's room which connects to this room and i am continuing the jungle theme with the taj mahal and more should be finished this week.

kitchen cabinets(for jolie and stephen)

they went with two off whites' with a weathered look that has charactor and could last with small children,they were originally to dark for their taste and made the kitchen seem bigger/lighter,it took a week to complete.

james and jack(bedrooms)

james wanted the yankee symbol in his room(jackie their mother and i decided to leave out the white lines in the symbol we felt it had more of a softness to what was going on in the room and james was ok with it,i also learned aboffs paint store has the exact color called yankee blue) and jack wanted the mets....i took a photo of jack while i was painting,it was his birthday at the time.