Color Schemes: analogous and complimentary

Detail, "Birds and Urns" decorative panel commission. Painted on cracked plaster with acrylic and lime-wash, on stretched muslin.

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I love analogous colors together-especially blues and greens. So when I created these decorative panels, I pushed and pulled the blues in the "Birds and Urns" painting toward periwinkle and robin's egg, anticipating how the colors would play off the honey-due walls.

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The designer did a beautiful job of complimenting the pale-green walls with russet-red fabrics and rich accessories. A view into the adjacent family room continues the analogous theme with a blue-grey wall color.

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For this family room I chose a warm blue-grey, off-white trim paint, and a warm neutral for the ceiling.

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Red accents bring it to life.

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I love this glazed red chest with the silvery blue wall color. Interior Design: Lynn Stoner

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Chinoiserie Bed

I painted this chinoiserie-style bed in the studio recently.

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It was a very unique and delightful project, once I got a hold of it.

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All I had to work from was this tiny photo of the Charles Pollack bed we were reproducing. It was an insane challenge. I only had a few weeks.

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The bed was custom built by Old World Antique Reproductions. The posts and linen fold panels are hand-carved. These photos were taken before the final distressing, glazing, lacquer finish, and gold lining on the posts, which no doubt made it even more lustrous. I used Kremer Colibri gold pigments suspended in Liquin fine detail. The most laborious part was the lining-work on the curved panels, for which I cut templates out of mylar to guide me. I hope our lucky client has opulent and exotic dreams!

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