REPAIRING A WINDOW MURAL FOR THE PINEAPPLE SCHOOL (TOTAL IMMERSION SPANISH LANGUAGE)

REPAIRING A WINDOW MURAL FOR THE PINEAPPLE SCHOOL (TOTAL IMMERSION SPANISH LANGUAGE)

The Pineapple School is for babies and preschool age children.  This school is "total immersion spanish language" spoken to the children.  Almost five years ago when they were building their first school, they asked me to paint several colorful mini murals.
They wanted this large area to look like a patio.

Recently, they called me and said they had some minor damage on one of the murals and had to paint over part of it and could I come repair it.  I always try to remember to keep a file and write down all of the colors I use.  Thank goodness I had all the colors in my file for this job.

Last week, I went by to get started.  While I was working, several of the children around 4 years old came over and in spanish were asking me what I was doing.  I answered in english and they immediately switched over to speaking perfect english.  I was amazed that they could switch and speak perfect english as fast as they were speaking spanish.  One of the teachers told me it was so easy for kids of this age and, usually, could be speaking spanish in a two week period.

I was sooo impressed with these children!

What a great concept for teaching!! 

This is one window I drew and painted.

My client wanted RED geraniums.

Another window across the room.

They wanted me to draw and paint a door.

I textured with mud and faux painted this arch yellow.

This is the window mural that was damaged on the right side. So, with tracing paper I traced the good side of the window frame, turned the paper over and using graphite paper re-drew and painted the side that had been painted over/damaged.  That was a lot easier than having to start over to measure and draw again.  Also, the repair guys were very careful and only painted out the frame.  I noticed they very carefully painted around the geranium sitting in the window.  I appreciated that.

Getting started I had to measure a lot and then draw and paint.

Original post:  5/4/2015

HAND PAINTING TOY SOLDIERS ON A LITTLE BOY'S FURNITURE

HAND PAINTING TOY SOLDIERS ON A LITTLE BOY'S FURNITURE

My client had an old chest of drawers and asked me if I could paint it for her little boy's room.

She said he loved toy soldiers.

She was decorating his room with red white and blue, so those are the colors 

I used for the artwork.  The toy soldiers are guarding the castle.

Her little boy was very happy with his toy soldiers.

And, I had fun painting the furniture for him.

The chest of drawers "before".

There were handles and knobs missing. so I painted wooden ones to match.

Original post 4/26/2015.

PAINTING SUSAN'S ORANGE/TAN OAK DINING CHAIRS & CHINA CABINET TO A BLACK DISTRESSED FINISH

PAINTING SUSAN'S ORANGE/TAN OAK DINING CHAIRS & CHINA CABINET TO A BLACK DISTRESSED FINISH

Susan was moving into a new home and making lots of changes in her colors and decor.  Her very nice, older "orange/tan oak" dining set was not going to work.  So, she asked me to paint the chairs and china cabinet to a black and a little bit distressed technique.

My house is small, so when I have big furniture to paint I have to move things around in my living room and dining room to make room for it.  Then, it is sooo nice when everything has been picked up and I get my house back in order.

So many clients ask me to paint their older brown stained or lighter furniture.  Many times they want it to be painted black.  It always looks so nice, updated and like new again.  Susan is going to put her collection of blue and white dishes in her new black china cabinet.
Won't that be stunning!!

Susan only wanted the edges distressed.  The design on these chairs was so beautiful and looked really great after painted black.

Waiting to be picked up.  These chairs were soooo heavy!!

Looks much better, now.

"Before"

Thank you, Susan, Marsha and Kara.