Sharing a Brain

This is a painting I just completed for a family.  This is the third Greve they have bought, creating one for each of their kid's rooms.  I am quite honored really.  I love the idea of their boys drifting off to sleep gazing at Signore Greve and Celli enjoying an adventure.

Getting into someone else's head to create a painting can be challenging.  Some clients are easy like the above family.  I once had a woman who asked me to paint her a tiger....PERIOD.  No color requirement, positions, size, sketches, nothing.  Just, " Gina, will you paint me a tiger?"

This is the painting I delivered.  Tigers love water which is something few people think about.  I wanted it to be a peaceful painting since it was going in her bedroom.  The client was very flowy, airy and creative so I like the water adding that softness.  Here is the incredible part.

I met her at her home to deliver the painting.  She had no idea what it might look like.  As she looked at it she gasped and her eyes got wide.  She grabbed my hand and lend me to the wall that the painting would hang.  The colors were EXACTLY like the colors in her comforter.  The painting fit the rooms style perfectly.  She teared up thanking me and some cosmic force.  I was a bit blown away myself.

Many artist won't take on the challenges of commissions.  Getting someone else's brain isnt'easy,it's true, but the payoff when it all comes together is awesome!