The Painted Chair, drawing vs Finished Product

Here is the frog design that I painted for the AIRdirondack Art Project. (I like to call it “The “Toadly Awesome Chair”).  The drawing of the chair was the proposal that I submitted to the contest jurors, and then after the design was given the green light I had four months to paint. The chair did not come with the bottom cross bar like it did last year so I adjusted the design of the frog’s mouth to rest in a nice closed smile instead of the open mouth. (But oh that crazy gaping mouth would’ve been fun to do!)

10374456_886358781435774_2962290870363134341_nI like to think that the six orange and green circles that are on the back of the chair are the eyes of three little frogs peeking through the big frog’s toes!

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AIRdirondack Project

I can’t believe it! The new design that I came up with was chosen to be part of the 2015 AIRdirondack Art Project! Remember the Blue Jay chair I did last year? Wait till you see this year’s design…it is psychedelic. I thought it wouldn’t get chosen because it’s so weird.

Thomas Gift

Hi! Here is a gift for my friend’s son, turned 2, and he loves Thomas the Tank Engine. It seemed only fitting to make him this personalized painting.

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AIRdirondack Art Project

IMG_19661IMG_19651-1024x768Here’s the chair that I painted. The Blue Jay design was a go! I spent four months working on it between juggling my three kids and housework and I won’t go on it would just get boring, needless to say I took every spare moment and some late nights to finish this thing!

I found out that it will be hanging from the ceiling at a splendid little cafe for the next few months before it gets auctioned off at the gala. I can’t wait to see it from its lofty abode!

 

A Little More Soul?

 

 

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I like both versions of her eyes for different reasons. The first is what I had decided was the finished version. The eyes are soft,  yet dark and a bit unwilling. You really have to get close to the painting and search her eyes to see the wonder and detail in them. The other version lights her up. I watched the Lego Movie (yes I am going there) and noticed that in order to make it clear that the main character was an average, uncharacteristic, Joe, they left the light out of his eyes. All of the other characters had light painted in their eyes. That’s when I painted light in her eyes, to see how she changed. My first thought was “your awake now.”