Turtle Nursery

Monochromatic warm "griseille" painted over Behr "Peach Porcelean" using tones and shades mixed from base coat.

Sunset Master Bedroom

Need a romantic get-away?

Create your own! I will travel to paint! No distance is too great.

This was a fun project I really enjoyed. Immediate and positive client feedback is very gratifying. Lots of happy dancing! Client spoiled me with yummy food and gave me a royal guest artist's treatment.

(Apologies for fuzzy pictures--and somehow I missed the dolphins! Too tired after 3 straight days of painting! LSF, send me photos!)

Pirate Ship Treasure Chest Palm Tree Mural

Outdoor retaining wall, rough textured concrete, with a deep crack running along bottom right hand side. I painted in the "sand" along the crack, for a natural break.







Turquoise "KILZ" primer, Behr "CONCRETE STAIN" in peacock, house paints in satin finish, reflective metallic paints in treasure chest, sealed top coat polyurethane-satin finish.

$200.00, including paint. Travel expenses extra! Leave a comment to contact artist.

Beach Sunrise With Palms and Chairs

From start to finish here is how I do a beach mural:
Start with mid-tone blue SATIN finish or eggshell. It is a nice, smooth surface for me to paint on. Please finish basecoat painting at least a week before I come to paint mural, so paint has time to cure, harden. Not too dark, not too light, but a base color that you love----I can make a beach mural on top of orange, green, pink, purple...it doesn't matter. But think of how the color will show on the walls that I do not paint.

I strongly suggest client finds bedding first, before I come to paint. Solids are easy to work with. This client chose a bedspread that made the her think of her favorite things about the ocean. It is much, MUCH easier for me to use the colors from your fabrics, than for you to try and find a finished bedspread that coordinates with colors I choose. FABRIC FIRST. I will make it blend. That is my job!

It is a good idea to re-hang items that you want me to paint around. Put the mirror at the right height for you, even tape off where furniture will be placed. The client moved the bed away from the wall, but showed me where the headboard would be lined up. That helps me. Leave me 24 inches to stand and place my little ladder.
I like to start with the horizon line, where the sky meets the water. Not half-way on the wall. I try and make it work from the perspective client will see the room as she walks in, and compatible with view from bed.
Client wanted a sun path on water, either a sunrise or sunset, "cool colors at the top and warm colors near the bottom." I thought that was very astute instructions from a teenager, who knows what she likes.
I didn't want it to look like a rainbow, and needed to tie in the great orange and pinks from her new bedding. Keeping a wet edge, I layered on the paint in horizontal bands. And blended. I only used two brushes: violet/blue and orange/pink. I had some turquoise glaze to keep things wet and used a big sponge to move around the colors.


Add water/wave lines, cloud mid-tones.

Clouds are relaxing to look at, but take lots of elbow grease. Wax on-wax off.
And where do you end, really? I like how this mural bled off into the corners.
Open the closet door, and mural only extends 6 inches or so.
Do not be afraid to paint the hardware, treat it as wall. Two coats of satin polyurethane over the top when mural is dry protects from fingerprint abuse and use.



My signature is hidden in this corner. Just for fun.


A small bedroom this size with focus wall and closet and small wall to left and seagulls is a $300 project plus $25 for SUPER GLOW IN DARK paint effects. Not counting basecoat painting. If I do all the prep work, I have to charge more for my time.

But it is worth it! Paint transforms a room, and you can be on vacation every day for the price of one plane ticket!

Surfer Room

 
 
 


Client wanted surfer room stuff...The tribal animals were fun to research, and I would do them again.

Island

 
 

Summer

Gabby

This was a FUN room to paint. Finished yesterday, so most recent mural on this blog. John jokes that I would pay people for the privileage to paint for them! I need more blank walls! Perfect base-coat color (happy yellow-orange--the parents let their daughter pick the color and then we went one step lighter and I promised to add lots of orange). Ceiling painting makes all the difference, makes the corners disappear and the room expands! Plus easier to cut in, if you are the painter. Over the 3 days I painted I came home itching to paint my house in brighter colors! I loved being in this space.
Clouds are satistfying to paint! It takes some muscle to do ceilings, and moneky-prowess on the ladder.
John took one look at this tree and said, "That's a $500 room!"

Before top clouds added--view of sunrise/sunset.
After top sky clouds added, first lavendar, then orange and gold on top.

The pink band of color completely surrounding the room was a stroke of inspiration, solved my cohesive problem, making things merge, look right. Praying helps.
Reason for the room. In 2 days after paint cures, the green field can be used as a chalkboard.
Dolphins on the way to the bathroom.

Can you find my signature and the year?