Dazzling Red Flower is a custom ordered, reverse hand painted red chandelier by artist Jenny Floravita. The glass bowl is 24 inches in diameter. Installation ready.

This dazzling reverse hand painted red chandelier was a custom order from Sorrel Sky Gallery in Durango. I have worked with Sorrel Sky Gallery for many years. They are a great gallery! The staff there is truly nice and they present my chandeliers well. This past winter they had a client come into the gallery to inquire about a chandelier that would have mostly red flowers.

I have written before on the challenges of creating chandeliers that need to be mostly a specific color. I have a lot of experience in this sort of custom order. It’s not unusual for my business. These types of custom painted chandelier orders require a lot of thought and planning. This client lives in Colorado but will be moving to Flagstaff, Arizona soon. She wanted a a dazzling red chandelier that was unique and artful! It will complete her dining room.

When I spoke to her over the phone about what she would like to see in her chandelier, she told me that she would like the chandelier to look red overall. In this case, she didn’t have a lot of specific flowers that needed to be painted into the glass. She mentioned red roses and blue and purple wisteria—so I planned for the wisteria to serve as a break out color. She also asked if I could paint a small hummingbird to represent her father. Of course I said, yes! Hummingbirds are often symbolic of departed loved ones, often representing parents or grandparents. Painting birds into chandeliers is a wonderful way to pay homage to a dear loved one. My husband’s grandmother ‘visits’ our family in the form of a bird as well so I can relate!

We had a few conversations over the period of two months about this particular chandelier project. One of the freeing aspects of this chandelier was the fact that my client didn’t have a list of 20 flowers for me to paint from…but on the flip side of that, it’s sometimes easier to work off a specific list as that helps me to know that what I’m painting is special to my client. As I asked more questions about color preferences, I learned that my client would like other colors within the chandelier as well. From experience, I can tell you that to make a chandelier mostly one color, requires that I paint a majority of the flowers in that color range. I would also add as much of that one color into the background as possible. Otherwise, a chandelier would simply start to look like a mixed-color, mixed-flower chandelier. This is an example of a contradiction. Most of my custom reverse hand painted chandelier orders have contradictions within the color and design requests. Experience has taught me to handle these contractions with fluidity. I look for areas within the glass to incorporate as many requests as possible and yet still retain the original vision: and in this case, the original vision was to create a dazzling reverse hand painted red chandelier. Not a mixed color chandelier.

The client did have some new art work that was extremely helpful in expressing the color of reds that she wanted. She wanted her reverse hand painted red chandelier to have fiery lava colors! This, I am greatly familiar with (if you follow my work, this will make sense)! The darkest parts of the red came from the fiery red abstract wall art that she had purchased. It was a perfect way to connect the reds within this chandelier.

At the end of a project like this one, the biggest challenge is to show the artistry and color accurately in the chandelier. Reds flatten out in digital images—overall this color palate is difficult to capture in pictures. My chandeliers are absolutely stunning in person! I know when clients tell me that they love the pictures…I know that they’ll be super happen with the actual glass as my work is so expressive and full of depth. My chandeliers light up evenly from edge to edge and really make for a fabulous and artful focal point in a room.

Want to see more pictures of this dazzling reverse hand painted red chandelier? If so, head over to it’s gallery page, here.

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