Over the next few weeks, we will be starting to post our whimsical styles. I began painting in this style when I was 14 years old and got in big trouble for painting checks and stripes and polka dots on an antique in my bedroom. These styles are the same styles that I have been painting for my clients since 2000 when I fell in love with Victoria MacKenzie-Childs - who took the same style I had been doing to a whole new level. Then, just when I thought her stuff was becoming a little passe', she and her husband were victim of an unscrupulous business partner who took everything from them. So they picked up and started Victoria and Richard on a shoe string budget and I was treated to an awe inspiring experience last year at the Highpoint Furniture Show. For those of you who do not know her work, it is my belief that she single handedly began the whole hand-painted craze. I also think that the whole "shabby chic" style that was in several years ago grew out of a bunch of painters like me running around trying to find cool pieces of furniture to paint. She also started the whole custom painted to match your decor craze (post tole painting). Without Victoria our homes would be so much more boring.
My style is much more girly glam due to my Southern California roots.
These frames are made to match our children's paintings that will be coming out with all of the other decor products later this year.
Here is a picture of the Rose Slipper Signature Frame. It is based on a framed designed by Farrah Braniff for one of her clients. I decided to add a waxed pattern to accentuate the glam look that she was going for. We have been making most of our kid frames with a square edge to allow for the stripes and polka dots that I love to do along the edges of the coordinating paintings.
It has a light orchid pink background with a textural regal damask pattern in Imperial Rose and Groovy molding in Imperial Rose. It looks good with more flashy glam styles and softer baby styles.
