HAND PAINTING MIRROR & PICTURE FRAMES FOR PAULA'S NEW HOME

HAND PAINTING MIRROR & PICTURE FRAMES FOR PAULA'S NEW HOME

Remember that  

FABULOUS & AMAZING HOME RENOVATION

I posted back in September?

Paula is still working on her decorating and asked me to help her change the colors on a mirror frame and a picture frame.  They were both metallic gold and very beautiful, but she thought they no longer looked good with the gray tones she picked for this new home.

Thank goodness she has this huge island in her kitchen.

It was a perfect work table for the painting.

This is the very large picture frame.  On the right you can see the "before" metallic gold.
 Paula had several colors of paint from her renovation and asked me to use a dark greenie gray for this frame.

I painted on and rubbed off the greenie gray.  On the smooth areas I rubbed more off, leaving the paint a little heavier around the decorative design.  That gave it an "antique aged" look.

This is where Paula plans to hang the painting.  Those walls are gray and my camera made them look kind of greenie blue.  The new color on the frame looks really nice.

And, this is wonderful Hank.  He's a huge Maine Coon Cat and a really cute personality.  When I laid down my bags, he immediately sniffed around and then laid on top of them.

His mom says he likes me...I LOVE him!!

Last night Paula sent this picture to me.  

He's so funny!

This is the mirror frame.  Paula wanted it to be a soft gray.  

When I finished painting it she thought it didn't look dark enough with the walls in the dining room, so I rubbed a dark blacky brown on top of the soft gray.  It was a good contrast.

This is how it turned out.  Looks really good on the soft gray walls, now.

In the first picture above you can see Paula's kitchen light fixture.

This is the light fixture she chose to go across the room above her breakfast table.

Here is another post to some frames I painted last year:

PAINTING HUGE BEAUTIFUL ART & MIRROR FRAMES

If you have any questions about painting frames, please feel free to message me.

Original Post 12/5/16

PAINTING SHUTTERS METALLIC GOLD & LEOPARD SPOTS

PAINTING SHUTTERS METALLIC GOLD & LEOPARD SPOTS

Patti is one of my favorite clients.  

I love the projects she has asked me to paint for her home through the years.

She had a small window in one of her hallways.  She found these shutters that were just the right size and asked me to paint them metallic gold and leopard spots.

She asked me to paint this curtain rod and finials black and metallic gold to go in an adjoining bedroom.  The colors matched the colors in the shutters.

First, I painted the inside shutter part a solid black.  When I painted the metallic gold over the black shutter part, I kept touching/blotting it with a rag.
That's why you are seeing the black coming through the gold.

 The undercoat for the outer frame where the leopard spots are, I painted a beigy off white.  Then, painted the metallic gold over that.  Next, I started drawing black squiggly lines with an opening. I painted a different color of metallic gold inside the squiggly lines.
 It's ok that they're not perfect.
 I used a black craft paint for the black and craft metallic paint for the two golds.

I did not seal these shutters because they were on a high window, so not a lot of traffic.  Sometimes, when you seal a metallic paint it dulls the finish.  Once I painted a lot of metallic paint in a dark bathroom, knowing it wasn't going to reflect a lot.  Then, I thought to use a high gloss water based sealer and it turned out great in the dark bathroom.
The metallic paints did reflect really well.  

Remember, metallics "reflect" light.  Without a light source it's just a color.

The high gloss in that bathroom was perfect for that dark area.

The carpenter separated the shutters and put one on each side of the window.

Such a great idea, Patti!

They looked really, really cute/great/wonderful!!

Original post 9/14/17.

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PAINTING ARTWORK ON A HUGE CANVAS TO COVER A HEADBOARD

PAINTING ARTWORK ON A HUGE CANVAS TO COVER A HEADBOARD

This is a link to a past project that I thought some of my friends might be interested to see.

My client showed me a photograph and asked me to paint something similar on a huge canvas.

She wanted to cover her headboard with it.

She and her handyman stapled this huge canvas onto a large piece of plywood.

This canvas cloth was very inexpensive.  I think you could paint just about anything on it for a headboard or wall hanging.  You could paint castles, ABC's, handprints, a panda bear, ANYTHING!! and it would be so cute or cool.  Big squares or big triangles and stars.  Stripes.

To read more about it, here is a link to 

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PAINTING FAUX "ANTIQUE COPPER" ON VERONICA'S DINING ROOM CEILING & TWO NICHES

PAINTING FAUX "ANTIQUE COPPER" ON VERONICA'S DINING ROOM CEILING & TWO NICHES

My client asked me to paint her dining room ceiling.

Her home was the perfect style for my "antique copper" special finish.

I showed her a sample and she loved it.  There were two niches in the entry next to her dining room and she asked me to paint the same finish in those, too.

When you walk in the front door you see the niches and dining room together.
 They look really nice.

Imagine what you are seeing is a metallic copper shining back at you through the antiquing.  I always have trouble taking pictures of the metallic paints.  Either they shine too much or not at all.  She found this wonderful santos "The King" and it fit perfectly in the space.  

She said that she will be adding more art above Him.

This is her 14' high dining room ceiling.  I used my 8' ladder, but it was still lots of work.  I painted the antique copper as the base coat and used a dark blacky brown to antique over it.  I painted on the brown and wiped it off with a rag.  The texture on her ceiling was just perfect for antiquing the ceiling.  At the base of her chandelier I did some smudging, added metallic gold and some red.  It looks like the copper might have aged and has a natural patina.

Her husband really liked it and said it looked like a ceiling in Vegas.

There's sweet Veronica dusting her chandelier. 

She said she and her decorator are going to add more crystals.  It will really sparkle!

Oh my goodness!!!  

This is their tiny little kitten that her son got for Christmas.  I bet he doesn't even weigh a pound and they named him BORIS.  He's a fluffy gray and white long haired kitty.  He was sooo tiny.  One day while I was working, they couldn't find him.  They looked and looked for at least 30 minutes panicking.  thinking he might have gotten out the front door.  There happened to be a tiny tear underneath this upholstered chair and Boris had climbed up in it and was taking a nap. 

Here are the two niches in Veronica's entry.  Because of all of the light coming in her front doors, the "antique copper" looked beautiful with the subtle metallic sheen (which you can't see in these two pictures).  Oh, and last week they added a granite shelf inside each niche.  

I didn't catch the light in this picture either to make the metallic paint shine but trust me, it is really beautiful.

These pictures are "before" the special finish.

Veronica's home is where I recently painted the black distressed kitchen island and here is a link to that post VERONICA'S KITHCEN ISLAND & WINE CABINET .

I might be going back in March and will get to see everything put back together.  I'm sure it will be amazing and I'll share it with you.  (Veronica said I could.)

Thank you Veronica!  

I loved working with you in your beautiful home.

Original post was 1/25/15.

PAINTING A 1930'S TELEPHONE TABLE TO A FRENCH COUNTRY CREAMY CRACKLED DISTRESSED FINISH

PAINTING A 1930'S TELEPHONE TABLE TO A FRENCH COUNTRY CREAMY CRACKLED DISTRESSED FINISH

Recently I painted kitchen cabinets to a french country crackled distressed finish.

The colors were so creamy and soft.  

I wanted to paint a piece of furniture with similar colors and technique.

A while back I found this 1930's telephone table and decided it would be perfect!

In case you weren't around back then, that open space was for a telephone book.  The phone sat on top of the table and had a permanent wire coming from the wall.

  You couldn't move the phone around the house like you can today.

I stenciled the top with a soft glaze and painted parts of the legs in the same glaze.

When I found this table, the handle was missing.  In my studio stash I found this knob with a backplate and it was just the perfect size to cover the original holes. 

 I drilled a new hole in the middle for the new knob.

It would have been nice to have the original handle, but really like this one.

I am very happy with the way this antique table looks now.

Original post on October 22, 2016.

HAND PAINTING ART ON RUSTY OLD CEILING TINS

     Ruth found these rusty old ceiling tins and asked me to paint something on them.  The design on the tins was so beautiful and I could see an urn with flowers.  Ruth had just built her country home and gave me the colors she was using in her master bedroom.  She wanted to hang these above her bed.  I love working with ceiling tins.  I have some that are so rusty, the rust has eaten holes in them.  But, they're still very beautiful!

To paint these, I didn't prime them.  I just painted a flat off white wall paint right over the rust, hoping that some of it might bleed back through.  

Only a little bit did and  it added to the aged look.  

She was very happy.  Me, too!

Original Post 

June 15, 2012

PAINTING FLOWERS ON AN OLD DRESSER TO MATCH A DECORATIVE MIRROR

PAINTING FLOWERS ON AN OLD DRESSER TO MATCH A DECORATIVE MIRROR

 I LOVE the way Patti decorates!!  This is one of her bathrooms...

She found this metal mirror and it was already beautifully painted.

Then, she found this old dresser and it was white and distressed.  She brought the dresser and the mirror to me and asked me to paint the dresser to match the mirror.

It was a bit of a challenge and fun to try to match the mirror.  I loved the flower colors and the aqua background color together.

I embossed the corners of these dresser doors with a scrollie design and then painted them and other tiny trim a metallic gold.  She had the dresser installed and then added the granite top, sink and faucet.

See why I love the way Patti decorates!!

Original Post 11/1/12