Sports, Fancy Pink, and a Guitar!

These three paintings are gifts for three special kids that I know. My husband's sister and her family lived in North Africa for three and a half years, and they just came back to America last week. They haven't found the house they are going to live in yet, but they are hoping to soon. So I did a painting for each of her kids to hang up in their new rooms. Each painting has a black ribbon on the back of the flatboard so that they can hang them up. The sports painting is for Cale, and he enjoys all types of sports. So I think this was a good one for him.

Becca's mom told me that she likes the color scheme of pink, black, and gray these days. Since she is growing up and definitely out of the little kid stage, I decided to do an "older" design of pretty flowers. I like how it turned out.

This painting is for the oldest of the kids. He is thirteen, and he has been interested in guitars since I have known him. He had to sell his guitar when he moved from Africa, so Sinclair took him guitar shopping this weekend. The gibson les paul is his favorite type of guitar, so that is what I painted. I loved getting to do these paintings for the kids. It was exciting to paint something that each of them were interested in. They are such great nephews and neice!

And The Name Is...

Okay! So I thought I would start out my first blog post by sharing one of my favorite types of paintings: Names. Remember in junior high when you would doodle your name and make each letter have its own design? Well, these paintings are just my upgraded version of those doodles! The first time I had the idea to create one of these name paintings was when I was trying to decorate my living room. I wanted to display my husband's and my last name as a decoration, and I came up with this. My husband, Sinclair, was sweet enough to cut out a board for me to put the letters on, and we both loved the finished product! So, the name decoration became a fun one for me when I wanted to create a personalized gift for someone.

Here are a few others that I have done. The first one was a birthday gift that I did for my neice. She had just decided that she wanted to decorate her room in black and lime green, and I wanted to help out! The other two names were gifts for baby showers that I did based on the colors and themes of the nurseries for the expected little ones.