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Specializing In Commercial and Residential Murals, Watercolor Portraits, and Illustrations, with a fun fantasy or fairy tale twist!
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2016
Flights of Fancy Watercolor with Acrylic gold highlights 15 x 20 When I came up with the idea of painting a child floating off into the air with a flying fantasy creature, surprisingly the hard part of the project was finding a pig for a reference. Despite growing up on a farm, I had never spent time around a pig. While at the library looking through reference books the librarian asked me what I was working on. I explained the painting that I had in mind and she told me that I should check out her friends' pig sanctuary. Yes, you read that right, a pig sanctuary! Piglets, Wild boar, domestic hogs that came up to my hip. My little cousin and I spent an afternoon tromping through a field with more varieties of pigs than I had ever thought existed. In a shed on the side of a field, a giant pink hog was happy to pose as my fairytale flying pig when he wasn't nibbling on my boot. The result ended up being one of my favorite paintings.
2021
Dragon Island Watercolor 10.5 x 14.5 Driving through the mountains of Utah, I couldn't help noticing how much the ridges looked like the spine of a giant dragon sprawling across the landscape. The idea of a dragon hiding under the landscape had me wondering what it would look like if the dragon suddenly woke up and started to move.
2015
The Snail Rider Watercolor with acrylic gold highlights 12.5 x 13.5 The idea of a fairy trying to win a race while riding a snail has been one I've sketched out a few times since I was a kiddo. For this painting, I revisited the idea but this time my fairy rider has already won his race and is casually making his way back home with his faithful steed.
2012
Flying Toad and a Magic Marble Watercolor with Gold leafing 14.5 x 17.5 Sometimes when I start a realistic painting, it turns into a fantasy image before I know what's going on. This sly toad started out posing for a dignified portrait but somewhere along the way, he grew a pair of wings. I turned my back for one moment, and the next thing I knew he had a magic red marble in his little hands. The painting is highlighted with flakes of genuine gold leafing.
2012
Gerda and the Boots Watercolor and Ink 14 x 18.5 Gerda and the Boots was actually a part of a series of paintings I did that was based on the fairytale of the Snow Queen, which is one of my favorite fairytales. Gerda, the little heroine of the story, throws her boots into a river. Because of thier connection to her missing friend, she is able to follow them down the river to find her way to the Snow Queens palace.
2021
2021
Honey Comb Wall Border
2013
A watercolor painting depicting a tea party between a fairy and some toad friends. Her pet mouse sits beside her.
2017
This painting was a watercolor commission of a young nine year old boy whose family loved Peter Pan. I also love the story and was excited for the chance illustrate the crocodile and fairies.
2011
Watercolor portrait of a young man in black.
2021
Watercolor with gold leaf.
2010
Watercolor illustration for the Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.
2022
One of five watercolor illustrations for a book of Poetry.
2021
The watercolor commission for a book of poetry written by a client in Utah,
Watercolor of a mermaid
2021
2015
A watercolor commission based on the story of Beauty and the Beast. I enjoyed doing this one. A friend helped my set up a table with food and wine glasses to add to the details in the painting. My sister helped by dressing up as the beast with goat horns. .
Bethany Bartholomew was raised in rural Ohio, home schooled in a farm house. She loves to think back on her days playing in the mud, running through the woods, playing inside and around an old hollowed out log, all while letting her mind be carried away in thoughts of fairies and trolls and goblins and good witches and bad witches. As the daughter of interracial parents, she has a love of cultural diversity. She has a knack for depicting race and culture within her work. She loves to include other ethnicities within her fairy tale pieces. Growing up, there was a lack of little girls who looked like her in storybooks, so she has focused on including everyone in her paintings. She loves simple living, growing her own food, wearing vintage clothes, and shopping at Antique Malls and consignment stores, looking for just the right piece for her next art project, or for her studio. She is an experienced baker, seamstress and homemaker. She is married and they now live in southeast Ohio. She is the proud mother of a little girl. They have two dogs named Diego and Pierre.
