Lindsay Ballard, Author at Makely

I have pre-ordered exactly one thing in my life. It wasn’t a copy of Frozen for my kids or a must-have Xbox game. It was a book filled with the work of an artist who died not long after I was born.

Mary Blair’s artwork is a thing of obsession to me. Her work elicits such nostalgia.

Y’all, I literally gasp with every page I turn.

I’m not going to pretend that I know anything at all about art. I’m not going to give you a bio on Mary Blair other than to tell you that she worked with Walt Disney on visual concepts for Cinderella, Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland and on creating the It’s a Small World ride at the 1964 New York World’s Fair (which later became a ride at the Disney parks)….

If you’ve been reading for any length of time, you know that I love paint – and particularly bold paint. I joked with a friend yesterday that I don’t normally go for colors described as “soft” or “light.” And to make it even more bold, I usually combine those colors with super graphic patterns and lots of bright stripes.

Now, I know that look isn’t for everyone. As my husband would say, “That’s a whole lotta look.” So for those of you who crave a little boldness but maybe just on an itsy bitsy, teeny tiny scale, I created a crazy easy spray paint project that you can do in an hour.

Darling, right? My little planter is just the right touch of funky boldness without going all Makely on your walls. It is spray paint season after all.

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Drawing Inspiration: The Artwork of Mary Blair

An Itty Bitty Bit of Bold