Some history...

Well, let's see, I guess I will start with College, since that is when I really started trying to sell my work trying being the key word, I usually gave it away before even attempting to sell it.  During college I learned that giving art as gifts was a good way to promote your work.  So I gave paintings as house warming presents...which was usually apartment warming presents for my friends back then, not quite homeowners yet.  I would give them as birthday presents, and Christmas presents, and it turned out, word of mouth was a pretty good way to get started.  I am kind of disappointed, I do not seem to have any pictures to post here.

Painting on trade was good too!  I painted a couple of murals at La Nopalera, a Mexican Restaurant on the corner of Beach and San Pablo in Jacksonville, FL, they paid me some in cash and some in food.  That got me a couple other jobs, three paintings at the La Nopalera on Hendricks Avenue, and this Mural for a guy who worked for Honda, of which we made a trade for parts and work on my Honda Accord (including a Timing Belt).

This is a 3 x 6 foot mural of Dolphin Fish and Wahoo.

A combination of the fish mural and the murals at the restaurants, got me another job!  A lady who had seen the murals wanted me to paint a mural in her bathroom, of which I got paid money for.

Beginning of Fairy Mural

Once my coworkers saw pictures of the murals, a few of them decided they would like their own paintings.

Tampa Bay Buccaneer's Ship

Tampa Bay Buccaneer's Flag

The two Tampa Bay Paintings were done for a co-worker who wanted to surprise her Husband when he came home after being deployed in the Navy.  She had looked everywhere for the Tampa Bay ship on a poster but could not find one.  So
she commissioned me to paint one for her.








Then another co-worker and I went to St. Augustine and she decided she wanted a painting of Flagler College for a nook in her new house.

Another co-worker's fiance commissioned me to do a painting for him of a dream he had about her all lit up in moonlight.  So she modeled for this painting:

I guess I am at a good stopping place for now...as I said before, my husband is currently deployed, I shipped him his first care package from me today and ran a few errands, so I need to go play with our furry kids for a while, I swear my Havanese is blowing bubbles in his water bowl I need to go see what is in it, his whole face is wet like he is bobbing for apples...I will type more tomorrow!  Hope you are enjoying my work as much as I have enjoyed creating it!