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Windows, and milkcans
Handpainted designs on old windows and milkcans..
If you see a design that interests you or have one youd love to have custom painted..Please contact me at
neltabmathias@yahoo.com
Date(s): March 11, 2002. Album by Nelta B Mathias. Photos by Nelta B. Mathias. 1 - 46 of 46 Total. 2147 Visits.
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Toucan window....I crackled some places on the frame, added a vine and added some red flowers in bottom corner...now Im satisfied with it.

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"Sea Oats" painted on another window for auction at the SPCA benefit....they donated the windows for me to paint.

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"Palm tree Paradise" painted on window for an auction benefiting the SPCA..

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Wildlife scene painted on window..I wanted the actual window frame to look like old weathered wood. This was a custom order.

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Scene of Montauk Point Lighthouse painted on a real window (36by28)..
This window is for the clients fiancee's windowless office. He's from New York.


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Tropical scene is painted on the glass panes of old window..What a great view for those rooms without windows..

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Winter scene painted on old window...I freehanded the design using the clients pillow for inspiration.

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Her pillow that I used as inspiration...

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This winter scene is headed to a client in Birmingham, Ala.

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Faux window depicting the Italian countryside with the clients parents home.  The home is in Italy but not in the countryside. This piece is actually painted on heavy paper.

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"Rainbow Row"...Client wanted the birdhouses to look like the houses on the battery in Charleston, SC.
Each house has different detailing.


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Blue house has wonderful flowerfilled windowboxes and palmetto tree.

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Other side of house has a wisteria vine and shrubs...

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Green house has white sheers at each window and large tree on one side.

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This side has side door and wrought iron fence and the palmetto tree

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Pink house with its baywindow and colorful flowers/shrubs on one side

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Birdhouses are for her 3 sisiters so I painted each ones house numbers above the front door on each.

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Lighhouse birdhouse is for the client.

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Other side of beach scene painted on the birdhouse.

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Close up of the turkeys...you can see that I havent done the faux wood on the frame yet.

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Family of deer she wanted in the scene...

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"Thomas the ChooChoo" painted on a window for a customer to put in a nursery..

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Beach scene painted on window...I used a "dirty" brush for the entire painting(never washed it out)....This window was finished in less than an hour...

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Hummingbirds and flowers painted on window panes...The lavendar background is the actual wall behind the window.

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This is the clients border that I used for inspiration.

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Custom mailbox painted for customer...she sent me a pic of what she wanted and I did my rendition.. (The old building in the background is my newly renovated studio..YEAH!!)

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The other side of the happy flowers...

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Mailbox cover painted on RocLon drapery blackout lining....simple pansy design

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I used a bought mailbox cover to trace out the pattern...cut it out.basecoated both sides of fabric....painted design, varnished and added magnetic strip...VOILA!