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Pool House porch with combination of stencil, air brush and free hand on stucco. Painting with acrylics with polyeurothane coating. |
Pool House Detail:Apple using stencil, air brush and free hand technique on stucco. |
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Grapes using stencil, airbrush and freehand techniques. |
Lemon using stencil, airbrush and freehand techniques. |
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Pineapple using stencil, air brush, and freehand techniques. |
Headboard using freehand techniques. |
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Bed detail showing freehand techniques detail. Polychrome with metallic lustre paints used extensively. |
Rooster using glass paints with stencil and freehand techniques. This is painted on ceramic tile that had previously been oil base enamel. It is over a stove and has held up well to cleaning and heat. |
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Trompe L' Oeil mural in Dining Room. Freehand Italian balcony scene. A major part of the scene is painted on canvas adhered to wall. |
This Trompe L' Oeil was painted on folding closet doors. It depicts an Italian enoteca cantina. I t is in acrylics. This work was featured in the Artistic Stenciler Magazine. |
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This Trompe L'Oeil window is painted in a small bathroom with no window and it effectively opens up the space |
This is a scroll work border around a ceiling produced with the use of stencils and freehand painting. |
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This is an antique tea table with flower painting on the top. |
This lap bed table features Trompe L'Oeil card, envelope, pen, crumpled paper, and paper clip. The "teddy bear" is made from a mink stole. |
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Armoire, oak graining enhances depth of paint. |
This stained glass is in an antique window frame that came from a small country church. |
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This French (Bayol) carousel goat with brass hand hold and horns formerly rode a Kiddie carousel. It has carved fur. To see more carousel figures go to http://merrygoart.com/ |
Parker Jumper. This figure is 91 inches long. It formerly ran on the Carousel at the Long Beach Pike. This is a Pegasus horse, so named because of its wings. It has a dog behind the saddle. |
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This smaller track machine carousel horse is an Armitage Herschell. It now rides the plains of Oklahoma. |
Barn painting. Acrylics |
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Tuscan scene that is in the Villa Ambra Hotel dining room in Tuscany, Italy. Acrylic on canvas. The canvas is adhered to the wall. |
Rabbit with May Pole Harmonizing ribbon border runs around the room. Freehand main features with stencil border. Acrylic |
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Ruth with the mural. |
Detail of Maypole theme painting. |
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Ruth with owner of Villa Ambra |
Water color rural Italy snow scene. |
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Western United States barn water color. |
Church in Bagnoregia, near Bolsena, Italy. Water color |
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Mote around Cittadella, Italy. Water Color |
Rural American farm water color. |
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Pier in Costa Smeralda, Sardegna. Water color. |
Water color of coast near Vieste, Italy. |
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Water color of detail from “The Virgin in Prayer” attributed to Giovanni Battista Salvi. 1609-1685 (Virgine Orante) |
Water color of church in Montepretosu, Sardegna, Italy. |
Statuary
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Crucifix Restored. To see before and restoration picture CLICK HERE. |
Restored statue, formerly a lamp. In polychrome and pearlized colors. |
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Santa Claus- Face made from paper mache. |
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Painted Furniture
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Painted Chest with wheat design. All freehand with acrylics. |
Detail of chest wheat design. |
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Corner armoire Cabinet Entertainment Center Hand Painted with acrylics. |
Wooden Fireplace Screen with Hand Painted flower design. |
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Decorative sign made from wood and painted by hand with acrylics. The fish is chasing a fly that is suspended in front of the mouth by a wire. |
A child's table with a “Cow jumped over the Moon” theme. |
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Armoire entertainment center before painting. |
Armoire entertainment center after painting with acrylics. Freehand style. |
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Freehand fruit bowl painted on ceramic tile above a stove. Oil |
Chest before (on right) and after painting with acrylics. |