The art of interior designing has always amazed me. As an acrylic artist, I mostly work on canvas rectangles or squares from 11”x14” to 5’x 8’ but interior designers often have to consider WHOLE ROOMS…ENTIRE AREAS…ENORMOUS SPACES! How cool is that?
Recently I had a really awesome “How Cool Is That?” online experience with a designer I had never met. Here’s the story:
“As I usually do, I got on Instagram early in the morning to see what’s new. I noticed one of my paintings got a LIKE from a design company I didn’t know, so I clicked on it. Wow! Was I blown away! Pamela Hope Designs pamelahopedesigns.com had posted a photo of the coolest mahjong sofa set I had ever seen. Hyper-vivid reds, greens, yellows, super cool patterns, all arranged Asian style! It was like visual dynamite going off inside my head, so I clicked on her website link for more—and I wasn’t disappointed. What a lovely site! What talent! (You’ve got to check her out!) I went from photo to photo to section to section until I ended up at her blog. Her 2020 predictions were to “go bold with color” and “blues and greens” would be popular this year. So impressed with Pamela’s blog, beautiful website, and color selections, I decided to make green my other “it” color in a painting on which I was working. What I didn’t know—which is what makes this story so cool —is after I had added all the green flowers to the painting, I found out my business manager had sent Pamela an intro to our studio letter and she also liked dorotheasandra.com enough to start following my work on Instagram. Hurrah for social media and destiny and fabulously talented interior designers!”
Here’s a photo of the painting “BEFORE” being influenced by Pamela Hope Designs.
What a “blah” beginning “BEFORE” being influenced by Pamela Hope Designs!
Here’s the same painting “AFTER” reading Pamela’s blog. See how her “interior designer” talent added to this painting getting more POP!
The “greens” definitely added POP and gave it more credibility as an “evidence-based” restorative/healing work of art.
Here’s the finished painting! Heartfelt Happiness by dorotheasandra.com. Acrylic on 36” x 48” heavy duty gallery wrapped canvas. Can you see the heart shape inside the painting? Can you see how much Pamela O’Brien at pamelahopedesigns.com had a big impact on my art? How cool is that!
