Dog Portrait: Chase

One of my best friends, Michele, had a dog that passed away about 6 months ago- His name was Chase. He used to stand up on his back legs and put his hands into hers. This was her favorite "pose" of his and was able to get a shot of him doing it with her cell phone camera. She's been asking me to draw something of him for a while now. I thought what better picture to draw from then her favorite??? It still needs some work but putting pictures up on this blog is motivating me to keep drawing and painting.

As with the paintings, etc I'll post this one again when I'm done-

Painted Baby Rocker- Classic Pooh

Interior Design isn't the only thing that I've been up to lately.....

A friend of mine has a small gift shop in D.C. that has a kid's section. I was asked to paint a classic, unisex children's rocker. It was between Beatrix Potter and Classic Pooh. Obviously, Classic Pooh won. Their characters were a bit happier than Potters'. I really like painting these small kid's projects, they are really cute, quick and fun to do.

This rocker will be on display in the store and will hopefully generate some other business: Personalizing, matching existing nursery collections, etc. I look forward to sharing more in the future :)

My design got press!!!

Decorating Spaces- March 2006

I haven't mentioned it previously on this blog but, I'm an interior designer. I work for a company called Apartment Zero.

Last year we met two gentlemen from D.C. who wanted their condo re-done. They already had a great kitchen but practically the rest of their space was all open space. They wanted us to create a dining area and lounge area for not only them but their guests also.

We put a plan together and they decided to go ahead with almost everything that we proposed. They loved the ideas and ran with them. They painted everything themselves, even the stripes that I suggested behind the fireplace, in the colors that I picked out. After that we ordered the furniture and it was delivered to their house. Unfortunately, we never made it back to the condo to see how it looked completely finished....Until, we got an email from Tim saying that their place was going to be pictured in Decorating Spaces Magazine!

Fast forward to this morning.... Jenn and I went over to Barnes and Noble and grabbed a copy. I flipped through thinking that I had better look closely because the article won't be too big and I didn't want to pass it.... but when I flipped to page 78 there was a huge picture of their living room. I looked at the next page and there was another picture... it turns out this is no little article at all, it's a 5 page spread!!! My jaw dropped and I was amazed. I've posted just one of the pages above. It's moments like this that make me really love my job!!!

Half nude almost finished

Almost done.

Just thought I'd post my almost finished recent painting. It's been so relaxing to get back into a painting again. It's been a long time. The biggest issue I had with this one was with the colors. The background color was really important to me. I took at least a day or two just messing with that. Then the rest kind of fell together. The skin still needs some work but I thought I'd share-