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Odd Jobs

I have taken on several unusual painting projects, mostly because they intrigued me, and often because I needed the money. Here are just a few of my odd jobs as a painter.*

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  • Raccoons Stealing Chocolate Table
Spokane Carrousel Animals and myself. I touched up, repainted and repaired dings in these beautiful antique wooden sculptures. All 58 of them. Four different times. Working on these animals in a heated glass building in the dead of a snowy Spokane winter. Unforgettable.
Here I am painting what was called the Warrior Horse. And believe it or not, there is a source to buy replacements for merry go round glass “jewels”, glass eyes and tails made of actual horse hair.
Rolling screens to block out noise and divide space in The Ruins, a large private dining club. I designed the screens to make them hollow inside, about 2’ thick. Blue and metallic gold stripes on the sides, and the fronts on this side tell a story of a monkey who is invited to attend a party in Venice (seen in the distance). The light changes as he assembles his costume with his pet peacock looking on. On the last cartouche under brilliant candle light, he looks at himself in the mirror as his girlfriend monkey sweeps in with her pet peacock. The cartouches in back are of Italian landscapes with one aberration. The owner’s pet bichon in one of the frames.
Painting flowers on the golden horse. Originally, the horse was white and was from Yves St. Laurent’s staging for his fashion show. He left it at Fredrick and Nelson’s when he finished his tour of the US in Seattle. My client wanted it metallic gold with flowers.
The Golden Horse of The Ruins. The staff would come by and tell me their favorite flowers and I would paint them.
The Raccoon table is now in my possession. Pride of place in my living room.
Raccoon can hardly wait to take a bite.
Lady Raccoon decided she’d rather have a bite of Mr. Raccoon than chocolate.
The Queen of Night Raccoon dives right in and won’t even try to get out. Her Minion Raccoon pushes her along with his little motorized chocolate wrapper.
There’s always fights about who gets the chocolate cherries. It looks like one of them already took a bite.
*Odd Jobs Notes
Raccoons Stealing Chocolate Table: My client asked to have a table, 48” diameter, beveled MDO, that showed raccoons stealing chocolate. I had just seen Orlando, a movie where the costumes were fantastic. Also, my client gave me a box of See’s Chocolates to munch on while I worked on the table. Very inspiring!
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