One of my friends, Scarlett Baily [1], is a talented artist based in Mexico City. She is young, fun, stylish, and oh-so-cool, painting mainly caricatures of people and animals for different events and companies. Scarlett [2] also has painted two portraits for us that are my favorite two pieces of art in our house — they make me so happy and give such a fun flair to the playroom [3]. So when she texted me this summer that she was coming to NYC, I came up with the idea of having her paint a shark in the kids’ bathroom. You see, Cruzzie is obsessed with sharks and loves everything about them. They are his go-to stuffed animals, his favorite books.. and he can basically name every shark in existence. So I wanted something special in the kids’ bathroom to reflect his love for the animal (and yes, first child’s love is overlooked by second kid’s interests. oops). Here they are, I love the final Sharkie! It is so different, special, and unique. It brightens up the bathroom and looks fresh and young!
Mr. Sharkie!
Scarlett’s family portraits of us
I told Scarlett to do whatever she wanted, and gave her full artist liberty.
The final sketch.
The tail. And Scarlett’s signature which I love.
The whole look.
The front of the shark.
The whole bathroom. With me in the mirror, sorry.
Isn’t it so fun??? I just love it so much. Thanks, Scarlett, for being such an artiste, a staple in our house, and a friend — we love you oh so much.