Romi Romi

This name makes me think of that Billy Idol song "Mony Mony"....I don't know why, but it does! Hence, the title of this post! I just finished this painting for Romi, who I don't know but I did know her momma growing up. She was my best friend's aunt Marcy. Now she has a daughter named Romi who just turned 11, and I was asked to paint something for her bedroom that she just had redone. I got a strip of fabric, which I didn't take a picture of, but it was the black and white damask-ish pattern that you see in the middle section. Really cute. I was asked to be creative - and I can do that! The other colors in the room are green and bubblegum pink. I have to say, I really love how this one turned out. May be one of my favorite ones to date.

Some funky pink and black zebra print for the border

Instead of a straight edged border, I did a fancier one. I accented with a little gold to make it stand out.

Just love that black and white pattern. I am asked regularly if I free hand everything on my paintings, and yes I do. I don't use stencils or tracing paper or anything like that. I just look at it and try my best to reproduce it on the canvas. Same with fonts. I print them out onto a piece of paper, and then write them out much bigger on canvas.

A different angle

I love this girl's name. It's cute and short. This is the only green in the painting. I really hope this suits Romi's new room!

Baby Tess

When we lived in Albuquerque awhile back, we got involved with our church there and met a bunch of young couples (most of us at the time did NOT have any children!). One of the couples we became friends with were Adrian and Trisha. Well......just a few short years later and now we ALL have children, multiple children!! They just welcomed their third precious child into the world last month, and I just had to paint something for sweet baby Tess! This baby is such a blessing, and is destined for true greatness! I even got to spend a weekend with their family during the first few weeks of her life helping and celebrating her arrival! So for our sweet friends - hope you love the painting!

Her bedding is Glenna Jean - the quality of this bedding is awesome. It's nice and thick, and the patterns are lots of fun. I was suprised Trisha picked out anything with pink - she's a purple and orange kinda gal. But, I just love this. This is the picture from a baby bedding website.

I brought the bedskirt back with me to match the colors just right. There are so many different shades of green and pink, I didn't want to be off! Trisha requested dots and more dots! So, here's my take on that.

I decided to do layers of dots because in the bumper, the sections are all different. Some are solid pink or green with dots, solid black with dots, or a variety.

A little dot border for the second frame

Here's the painting up against the bedskirt. The colors were right on! I really liked the whimsical font for her name - I thought it went well with all of those DOTS!