Surface Art

These pictures pretty much speak for themselves. 
Almost anything can be done with metal leafing and paint.

For: Joe Nye Inc

A pair of caved wood cherubs that I brought to life with gesso and paint.

I made these boxes from pressed moldings, finials and composition. Then finished them with paint and leaf.

This is a new piece. I distressed it and gave it a very old looking paint job.

For: Tom Beeton Inc.

The same with this piece

I built and painted a custom gate to keep the cat out of the Living room.

It was a plain little wooden table that I leafed, painted and added glass top

It was a doorway into a pantry. I built the bookcase unit to fill the space & painted the doors covering the T.V. with trompe l'oeil.

This is a stenciled floor with a surprise inside the closet.

I built this piece and decorated it with paint, glazes, metal leaf and wallpaper.

I designed and painted this card.

I didn't paint this picture, I just toned down the frame. Sometimes small things can make a big difference. For Tom Beeton inc.

I did build the cabinetry, but what I want to show is the tile work.

I cut each piece and smoothed the edges so 'baby's' bottom wouldn't get scratched.

Something for over the doorway of a beautiful Wallace Neff living room.

A tile mirror.

A pencil study.

The room as it was.

I textured the fireplace surround and painted it to look like sandstone.

I did paint the soldier and yes, it's a blatant attempt at a copy. I made and finished the frame too.

My concept drawing with the designer sitting over my shoulder.

Two years later. The finished result.

A silk pillow I painted.

Painting on a wall.

'Wuffie.' my son's best friend for 18 years, painted on plywood.

A study for a mural backround.

A study for a mural.

A simple sky ceiling.

I copied these too, more or less. I gave them nose jobs.

Pen & ink of a clients house.

They loved the carpeting, just not in the water closet. So I copied it in painted stenciling.

Details of painted powder room floor.

Painted wood floors.

'Make them look alike.'

I put the damaged painted finish back on the top and varnished it for safe keeping.

Done. For: Hollhock

Some boards. nail heads,wallpaper, and glazes.

Painted & leafed plaster work

It is just hydrocal (white plaster).

For a time I made things to sell to stores. It's all hydrocal.

A dining room mural

I did this in acrylic paint directly on the wall plaster. It was quite a long time ago. I wonder if it is still there. If I did something of this scale again I would do it on wallpapered canvas so it could be taken down and moved..

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Silver leafed and antiqued.

Stencils on a chimney. From the ground you'd never know.