by Nicholas Wilton | Apr 14, 2010 |
Today, my neighbor, Lila Friday ( http://www.lilafriday.com/) knocked at my door carrying a Swedish cheese box from 1770. She purchased it from a friend who purchased it many years ago in San Francisco. I guess these were used to carry cheese before cellophane was...
by Nicholas Wilton | Apr 7, 2010 |
I took this about a week ago and it’s fun to see how much I have already changed these paintings. Some are done now. The one on the way left on the wall being cropped out is a painting commissioned by a friend. It was especially challenging as this painting had...
by Nicholas Wilton | Mar 13, 2010 |
When I finished my house I spent a fair bit of time adjusting this photo in photoshop. I deleted the background and made it white, fixed the proportions so it looked in perspective and even added a drop shadow. I thought that this would make it easy for it to be...
by Nicholas Wilton | Feb 11, 2010 |
I am involved in this amazing new organization, “The Redford Center” http://redfordcenter.org/ Robert Redford and his family have created this non profit to inspire positive social and environmental change through the arts, education and civil discourse....
by Nicholas Wilton | Jan 30, 2010 |
This is a detail of one side of the roof. The snakes and ladders are from the original game that later was turned into chutes and ladders- a board game that deals with fate and the luck. I created a board game, calendar motif on the house to symbolize the passage of...
by Nicholas Wilton | Jan 29, 2010 |
I finished it. I was happy that there was only 3 sides and not 4. Painting a house is,well, like painting a house…there is a lot of space on the outside of a house!…I am happy that the figure feels like the house and to me really adds something dynamic to...
