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| Amelia Handegan Rooms, arrived in a gift box. |
It has recently come to my attention that I am published,
again. Look, it’s a selection of my
painted commissions for your perusal in not one but two more Rizzoli
publications. I say two more because
I was first published by Rizzoli in the late 80s. However, this is now and
Windsor Smith and Amelia Handegan both got book deals for 2016 and I am there
and you are here and we are all together. So let’s take a look shall we?
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| The cover shows her own place. |
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| The chapter heading for Birdsong reproduces my sketch. |
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| This is my sketched, reversed and off color in the book, |
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| A spread from Rooms showing a part of my mural. |
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| Birdsong, the house and its hallway covered in my mural. |
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| Also seen in Rooms this painting I copied from an anonymous 19th c work. |
I’ve probably done enough work for Amelia since 1988 to
warrant a book unto itself but Amelia Handegan Rooms is about her work,
beautiful work. I’ve done a number of large scale murals for her interiors and
it’s always kind of thrill just to be able to make a painting so large, forty
feet wide for instance and that was just one panel out of four. In "Rooms" you
see glimpses of that mural project, (for a house called Birdsong); a sliver of painted panels I did for
Amelia’s own foyer; and a copy I made of a 19th c. hand painted wallpaper for one of her clients .
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| The cover of Windsor's book hints at my silver leaf painting inside. |
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The top photo is from the book, the other two are mine.
Clearly the colors change significantly based on what the silver reflects. |
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| Fyi the drawing for the wall painting seen above. |
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| Another page from Windsor's book, same room, opposite end. |
The Windsor Smith book, Windsor Smith Homefront Design for
Modern Living, came out earlier in the year. There’s just one project of
mine in the book, I’ve only done one project for Windsor but it’s a doozy and
it ended up in Architectural Digest. It’s another unique opportunity for me,
painting on silver, and painting an entire room in Chinoiserie. Oh and there’s
a perverse thrill in hanging with a Picasso, rather a Picasso hangs on top of
my painting.
What’s next? Tell me.
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| That's me standing before a stretched canvas for my current project. |
Addendum:
Do you want to see my other book report? Follow this link-
My first book report.
