Danielle's bouquet was made with purple orchids and green leaves. She wanted her painting to be uncomplicated and contemporary with specific background colors.
After Danielle received her bouquet painting she inquired about getting a smaller 6 x 12 one done for her mother
Victoria wanted a large canvas of 24 x 36 inches. Her bouquet had a beautiful range of flowers with green orchids, purple stock, purple orchids, gardenias and purple mums.
Here are some close up sections of the painting.
Gardenias don't last too long or press well in a regular press. But I managed to save enough of them to use in the painting through another method or pressing.
Mums press well especially if you lay them in individually. The red to purple colored flowers usually turn deeper after pressing.
Orchids are known for not keeping well in a press. They usually turn dark brown. I have my best luck with the purple and green orchids
Corey and Danny chose a 20 x 20 canvas to preserve their wedding flowers. The groom's bouteneer is on the left with green callas, grass & a peacock feather. The other flowers were white callas, green roses, white freesias, blue hydrangeas, stephanotis and purple asters.
They added a 10 x 10 parent painting
Christine and Steve had an 11 x 14 wedding bouquet painting made for their home which consisted of white roses, blue delphiniums, pink carnations, purple and white lilies and purple and white stocks.
They also requested two paintings made for the respective parents in 10 x 10
Cristina was such a pleasure to work with on her wedding flower bouquet painting. She knew exactly what she wanted to capture from her wedding. She chose a 18 x 24 inch canvas. Her flowers were green and white orchids, stephanotis and white roses
The ferns in the painting and the color green are exactly like the ones in their wedding invitation. I thought that the quote was so nice that I included that at the bottom of the painting.
Cristina wanted me to include the crystals from the handle of her bouquet which I used to set off the centers of the stephanotis and to add a crystal flower between the quote.
The bride also wanted some of the lace from her wedding gown in the painting. I chose to set it around the outside edge as an added touch.
Ashley's chose to preserve her wedding bouquet flowers on a 12 x 12 inch canvas. The wedding colors were pink, white, gray and silver. She liked the ribbon design in another painting I had done and wanted this reflected in hers.
This is a side view of the painting showing the flowers wrapping over the edge with a continuing design on the 1 1/2 inch deep canvas.
This is just a small 5 x7 inch study of some beautiful plants that grow at one of my favorite spots on a patio I enjoy
Field of Flowers acrylic on recycled cabinet door
Hollyhocks Outside The Window acrylic on old recycled cabinet door
This was a commission request from a gentlemen who wanted to add something a little different to an old kitchen cabinet door that he has in his kitchen.
He had suggested maybe having the word "Spices" added and left the rest up to my imagination.
A little lavender, red chilly peppers and sage hung from twine.
With some garlic setting on the bottom.
Here are two more windows that I painted at Christmas time just to see how they would turn out. Old Saint Nick and the Christmas Tree.
I painted this window before Halloween and it sold pretty fast at the Montrose Farmers Market.
This is a painting of my mother's cat "Cat Cat" who is in cat heaven now. It hangs under the eves of our neighbor's garage which we see from our back yard.
And this is in memory of my beloved Irish Setter "Showfield's Sweet Joy" (I just called her Joy Dog). She hangs under the eves with Cat Cat.
I love painting Ger aniums on the old windows. People seem to always like them and snatch them right up.
My daughter loves sunflowers so I painted this for her. Sunflowers are so bright, sunny and cheery!
Tyler's wedding bouquet had lovely pale pink lilies, deep blue delphiniums, pink roses and white roses.
, Quite a few of her pink roses had perfect heart shaped petals toward the center of the rose which I place at the top of the painting.
This wedding bouquet preserved on canvas is 18 x 24 inches.
