I know I haven’t posted in almost a week, and it is with good reason. I have been working on two top secret projects. One, I still can’t show you, but the other is finished and the surprise is out, so I can finally write about it and show how this project came along!
My cousin Jeff’s wife Danielle turned 30 this past Thursday, and he threw her a surprise party. Knowing she is a huge giraffe fan, I was inspired to create an original giraffe piece for her big 3-0. I didn’t really have a specific result in mind when I had this idea, so just I started out by sketching giraffes and doing multiple giraffe studies.
After about a week of eating, staying up all night so as not to break my creative groove sleeping and breathing giraffes, it was the day before Danielle’s surprise party and I had all these giraffe elements, but wasn’t sure how I was going to incorporate them into a piece.
So I decided rather than do one piece, why not do a tryptic? I love the idea of doing multiples/series of things, and almost 2 years ago I bought these three small 8′ x 8′ canvases with the intention of doing something really cool, but never came up with an idea. So in the corner of my room they sat. I unwrapped those mammajammas and still didn’t know what I was going to do. So I just started doing and decided it would come to me once I got started. And so it did…
Danielle said, and I quote, “They literally blew my mind.” I am so happy she likes them. 
She actually named them, too. From left to right we have: Gertie, Glenda, Tallulah Belle and Genevieve.
These are wonderful!
I freakin LOVE that bottom middle one with the blue background. That is bad ass!