So, I'm setting myself a goal of getting some of my work posted at least once a week. We'll see how long that lasts, but at that rate, I figure that I have enough to cover me through the end of the year, without creating anything new at all!
Now to tell you about the images I've posted below. A great friend of mine, Pam Berry, who just happens to be a designer with Pbi Interior in Austin, called me up recently to tell me that she had a challenge for me. A client of hers wanted a night sky painted on her ceiling, with a moon, and clouds, at sunset, but the moon should be partially/mostly obscured, and the only colors I could use were pink, mauve, purple, and navy blue. "No yellow?" I asked. None. "No gold?" Never. "No orange?" Just pink, mauve, purple and navy.
I had to chew on that for a while, let me tell you, and I browsed through a few hundred (at the very least) different images to try to find something I could work with. I started work without a sample board, and after about a week on the job, the client said, "My husband sure would like to see the picture you're working off of." I didn't say anything immediately and there was a pause that I ended with a smiling, "As of last night I have one."
I collaborated with her throughout, and when we both agreed that it was finished. I packed up, not really sure whether I'd be coming back or not what with Pam (the designer gets final say, right?) and the husband yet to look it over. Well, everybody was ecstatic about the finished product and so I really am done. Yay..
It sure is nice to finish up knowing that everybody couldn't be more pleased. And I'm actually kind of impressed with myself at being able to pull it all off with the parameters I was given. Thanks, Pam. I sure would like to do this project again, but we both know that will never happen -- since "we never do anything twice" right?
Now for the pictures, and these'll have to do until my husband makes it over there to take the "nice ones."
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moonlit sky at dusk  |
