Recent Work: Chaplain's Church Service at Sea

Well howdy all, 

New stuff is on the horizon, and I am anxious to learn about what comes next. Give me another week or so and I'll news. In any case, I have been doing some nice watercolor pieces recently for a few couples in the Navy. A custom watercolor of the ship with the chaplain's flag flying can be seen below. I was really happy with my work, and can't wait for them to get it framed so that I can see it in all its completed glory. 

14" x 11" watercolor painting of the USS New York (LPD 21)

I got to watch the lucky recipient as he got his custom painting, and what I saw that amazed me the most was the look of love and adoration towards his wife. His little girl and wife had seen the piece in production and when the painting was shown to the almost 2 year old, she said, "daddy's boat!" Heart melting stuff ya'll. 

I love being a part of their family history, in this little way marking his first deployment as Chaplain, with the painting of the ship. Of course the wife is the mastermind, I was just the hired worker! haha. 

Live every day in love, 

Chelsea 

P.S. If you're local to Jacksonville/Jacksonville Beach - go to the Beaches Art Walk next Tuesday 8/11 - I unfortunately won't have a table this month, but it's bound to be a nice event. 

Florida Love

Over the last couple days, weeks, months, I have been toying around with the plethora of adorable home state love expressions seen around the web and the craft stores. I have been fascinated by combining the state, the map, the outline, of where I live or have lived with the dates, initials or shapes of important factors from that time frame.

Well, last night, I finally made something. Tape resist with the shape of the state of choice (FL) in this case, with some more tape resist as the month and year we started living in said state. Oh, and a cute heart that plays with positive and negative space (because our city is on the coast) over the city we live in (Jacksonville).

I added a couple little dolphins as they have some significant meaning to my and my significant other, and used variations of blues for the "background" a play on the coast and well, something for the cute dolphins to come out of. I love commemorating happy moments, and this is just something I think will be a great addition to our home. (Plus, if we move, it's a pretty quick and simple thing to make another one that's different but the same!)

I haven't shown Alex it yet - but I think it's going in his next package! What do you think about it? I'd love to make one of your state, dates, significant things if you'd like :) By the way, this is on an 8x10" canvas panel, so super easy to mail.

Looking forward to heading to the Beaches Art Walk tonight as it's the Second Tuesday of the month! Come visit! :)