Category: Commissions
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Sadie’s Announcement
Custom Wedding Invite Such a good idea! It was Rhiannon who chose to have her daughter announce their wedding to friends and family. Very clever, and so making this was a lot of fun. Rhiannon asked I include her daughter Sadie’s little blanket bunny, RaRa, but with a real bunny body. Sadie’s nickname is Sadie…
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Canoediana
“Canoediana” – Commission, ~18″ x 24″ What an infectious smile!? Christine’s grandma is pictured here relaxing afloat a canoe. When she commissioned this piece, Christine gave me free reign to add colour if I wanted too. I contemplated making the shirt red, but opted out in the end as you can see. I…
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Camping Patch
“Camping Patch” – Commission, ~16″ x 20″, acrylic on wood. This may have been the hardest picture to paint as of yet. My goodness. I scratched out and repainted my sweet friend Miranda’s little child face. She commissioned this as a gift for her Dad, and I wanted terribly to capture her perfectly. I…
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Maui Wedding ~ 26″ x 38″, commission. Summer is the season for wedding portraits! Again, I was able to paint this one outside in the sun which is so appropriate for the subject, got me right in the groove. This image is quite large, and I had the added challenge of combining two photos. The…
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Happy Beautiful Love
Happy Beautiful People in Love! I was loving life when I was given this commission. It was gorgeous weather outside, I had my easle set up on the deck, baby monitor on hand and was just adoring these faces! They were glowing, and I guess just being so present and focussed, painting these smiling…
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Young Rider
Young Rider Last year I had this sweet commission from Angela. Her daughter had seen my art at the moss street paint in, and put me on her wish list! So nice someone so young would request art for Christmas! It was a tricky one to paint, because of the profile and angle of…
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Custom Thanks
Shannon & Eric’s Custom Thank You Card Again, Shannon knows what she wants! Fantastic, and I liked her directions. I still favour my first drawing though, where their Foxy selves were nude in the canoe. I guess it was a bit too risqué for a wedding thanks ;) Cut offs are cute. Nice touch.…
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Shannon & Eric Wedding Invite
Custom Wedding Invite for Shannon & Eric This was a fun little project, off my beaten path. Shannon saw our wedding invite through a mutual friend, and so had me design hers. I liked how she knew what she wanted, from subject to background details. I did up a few different drawings and we…
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Mara & her Dad, approximately 18″ x 20″ (I should write these things down). Awwww, Mara, and her father, I love everything about this picture. Their eyes, his sweater, their bevies, and even the background details. Maybe it’s cause I have a soft spot for dads, I don’t know. I am long overdue posting this,…
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Wedding Portrait for Christine, acrylic on wood, approximately 24″ x 24″. Christine Boutillier. Wow. I am so boosted up, grateful, and thankful for her patronage. Seriously. I wouldn’t be making a living here if it wasn’t for her confidence in me. She has taken my art under her wing as well as introduced my work…
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Wonder
Trade commission… NFS, ‘Wonder” Kiona found my work at the Moss Street Paint-In this year, and commissioned this piece for food from her hobby farm in Duncan. She gave me a tonne of pictures to choose from, one with the boy pictured here, and there was another with him holding a frog. I melded the…
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Road Trip
“Road Trip” for Sarah from Grace and me 17″ x 24.5″ This just looks like a happy place. Who doesn’t love a little old red truck, a tie-dye blanket and road trip? There’s little detail of the landscape, but it feels Canadiana enough, jean suit, water, trees and sky. Sarah is a phenomenal show girl,…
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Cuteness Overload!
Really, this is too cute. I love these little guys! 28″ x 39″ Jared spotted my art in Rebel Rebel, and seeked me out to commission this. I have to admit, when I first saw the photo I was a bit scared. It wasn’t very detailed, kinda grainy, and the screaming baby… I thought it…
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They Do.
Commissioned by Jay Brown, for his brother’s wedding, 16″ x 20″. An engagement smooch, on the beach, wind blowing, waves crashing, ahhh romance. I used some gold paint to try and capture the sun shining on the strands of her hair, and the glint in her necklace. I have no idea if these folks liked…
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Wall Flower
Wall Flower: Wallpaper, acrylic and gold paint on wood. My dear Karen Messer was the second winner of the Mother’s Day contest I had. I took my time, saving this one for the show I am having at the Ministry of Casual Living right now. The opening was awesome, a totally surprise, since I worried…
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Train Travel
15″ x 20″ Train Travel. Emily from Bernstein & Gold commissioned this one from me, for herself of her best friend Lisa. Emily told me she asked her friend first, if it was weird she was going to have a painting done of her, if that was okay… of course she was honoured. I don’t…