CUSTOM COMMISSIONS

Acrylic and Oil 3’x4’ Orginal, embellished with Glitter, Gold, and Little Silver Stars, Created for a child’s room. A dreamy piece, to bring peaceful dreaming, to bring magic, to bring curiosity, inspiration, calm, tranquility, and sweet dreaming always. Painted by Sarah Elliott Alday.

Detailed Oil on Canvas, painted from a photograph of the sweet couple’s floral arrangements set upon hand cut wood slices, set amongst the background of Emily’s family farm in Marshall, NC, where she grew the sunflowers herself. Painted by Sarah Elliott Alday.

3’ x 4’ Large Oil on Canvas, featuring the Virgin de Guadalupe, on a set of trimmers, grasped in the hand, along a darkened, vignetted black background. By Esau Garcia Alday.

2’x3’ Acrylic and Oil, Event Painting of a Magical Mountainside Celebration, featuring homegrown sunflowers amongst a floral framing, outlined in gold, silver, and copper leaf. Painted by Sarah Elliott Alday.

Extensive research and phone calls to Restoration Specialists in Boston. Complete delicate cleaning, wet sanding chips, preparing and gessoing all exposed metal surface. Then pigment matching the previous background colors. Tediously, painting dials, designs, Roman numerals, and gear. My uncle and aunt, George and Kelly McKnight, in Inman, SC, who were responsible for completing the mechanics of the piece for a client of theirs, bringing this exquisite antique back to a working condition 18th Century Grandfather Clockface, with on-time operating clock body. It is a an absolute honor and incredibly neat and humbling feeling knowing that you are helping to work on a piece that was originally hand-painted over two hundred years ago. So very thankful to have had the honor to help with this commissioned project.

2’ x 3’ Acrylic on Hand-Stretched Canvas, Featuring three cats and branches with leaves, winding in silhouette, amongst the aqua night sky, watching the Full Moon. Painted by Sarah Elliott Alday.