Our friend, Rhonda, brought us dinner one night last month. When she came by to drop off the food she saw this canvas that I was working on for Rebecca. She told me she'd found some art on Pinterest recently and asked if I would take a look to see if I could paint something similar. "Sure," I said!
Well, Rhonda put me up to a challenge! She had found a cute print of red and white subway art with Christmas phrases on it. I'd never done a painting with this much text before and certainly not with this many different fonts! But I was excited to give it a shot, so we worked out the details and I got started.
Many, many coats of paint later and this was the end result! I was stretched to come up with new fonts that I could paint (I freehand it all - no tracing!), but I love the end result and was proud to have taught myself some new tricks.
Tonight I had the pleasure of delivering the canvas to Rhonda and her husband, Terry. They were as nice as could be and so pleased with how it turned out! It will look adorable in their living room with their Christmas decorations. When I'm not wrangling a 1-year-old or painting, my "real" job is preparing tax returns. If only my tax clients were as excited about their returns as Rhonda and Terry were about their canvas! :) It felt good to bring a smile to someone's face. Thanks, Rhonda, for the opportunity!
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