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Watercolor home portrait of lovely brick residence
Just completed on August 28 … a watercolor home portrait of a lovely 2-story brick residence in Ladue, Missouri. The artwork was created for the recipients of a Gift Certificate I donated for The Community School silent auction in April. I enjoyed portraying this beautiful home and landscape, and I hope the family will be thrilled when they see their custom house portrait!
New home for the newlyweds!
Our daughter Lauren and new son-in-law Jeff just closed on their new home… a 74 year old 4 bedroom in Glendale, Missouri with lots of character and charm! It’s surrounded by mature trees in a great neighborhood — they’re going to love it there! This is one of the photos I took — I look forward to portraying it in a custom watercolor house portrait for a future gift one day! Congratulations to them both!
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Watercolor portrait of Arlington, Virginia home
Just completed on August 8th… an oversized 14″ x 24″ watercolor portrait of a gray brick home in Arlington, Virginia. The artwork includes mature trees, blue hydrangeas and pink spirea plants in the front yard along with two black rocking chairs and small table on the front porch. This portrait will make a wonderful keepsake for the family!
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Watercolor portrait of Soulard home presented
On Sunday July 27th, I presented the watercolor portrait of the property in Soulard to my Uncle Raymond. This 2-family building was in his family for 59 years, and was recently sold. He was surprised and thrilled to see the property portrayed as it looked in the mid-1960’s, when he and his wife and two sons lived there when they were so young. Standing behind Raymond are his sons, Marc and Michael. So happy to create this portrait for him and know that it will bring him warm memories!
Very special watercolor portrait of home in historic Soulard neighborhood
Just finished on July 19th…. a watercolor portrait of a property very special to me. Built in 1870 and located in the historic Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, this 2-family residence belonged to my Uncle Raymond and was in the family for 59 years until he recently sold it. This residence is special to me because I lived there with my family until I was almost six years old, and my earliest childhood memories are from this home. The exterior has changed over the years, but I chose to depict it the way it looked during the mid-1960’s when Raymond’s family lived upstairs and my family lived downstairs. This custom house portrait will be a surprise gift for my uncle , now 81 years old, and I will be giving 8″x10″ color prints to his family and mine so we can all have a keepsake of the property that had been in the family for so many years.
This photo, taken on Easter Sunday 1965, shows me with my Father, and my Mom holding Richie,my new baby brother. Special thanks to my big brother Lon ( 8 years old at the time) for taking the photo — it’s definitely one of my favorites!
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