Just so you know....

Finished.

Update: cortisone shot in one knee,
numb foot in same leg...HA!
Almost done...will finish TODAY!!!





That things don't go smoothly....hardly EVER in any job I do...this one is going to give me more than enough gray hairs for a year or so. The shape of the dome is football (!?!) and I should NEVER have taken it on. I hate heights, and it's a hand wrought dome with quirks and bumps that were not evident when it was one neutral color. Add to that my humanly imperfection, and a (what I thought was simple) design that requires DEAD ON CENTERING on a structure that is not perfectly set...and you have frustration to the nth degree.
I'm off today to get it right. There will be "iron" rods shooting off of the center dark design, and they must look good and straight visually.

another ceiling

here's a barrel vaulted ceiling that one artist started, and I finished. The style was somewhat controlled since he had made a similar composition and color choice in the bedroom of the homeowners. I had to change the faces of the cherubs in the bedroom because the woman said they looked "demonic" and scared her! He had begun the center burst of "light" with gold here on this ceiling. Can you believe this is in a BATHROOM? The same bathroom as the blue marble columns. The center object you see is a chandelier. This ceiling is 20'x10' approximately, and 20' high at the center. My client's husband was sick of all the cherubs in the house and asked for something more masculine, so "Michael" there is added...my oldest son was the face model for it.

previous works

Joe asked about ceilings...I've done my share, and this was challenge. I also trimmed the molding in gold, and marbleized the columns in a blue marble. The whole media room has an old '40s feel to it. The client wanted the constellations "personified" and represented...I added a moon and sun to the center. These are ancient depictions of constellations.

Ceiling, faux marble columns and door