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Amazing spray-painted portrait of my 4 year old daughter

This art was featured on The View!! Check it out!

Gregg, the creative genius behind Modern Bird Studios, uses one of your photographs and then breaks it down into a two, three, four, or five-color image which results in abstract shapes that make up the form. Then he chooses contrasting colors to create the painting.

The result is a marriage between technology and traditional painting to create a totally hip urban-style art piece that enriches your home.

Megan and I hooked up (eww, not like that) and she pimped her husband out to me for a painting. I’m sure Megan regretted that decision as soon as she started working with me. I sent her at least FIFTY photos, emailed her a laundry list of questions, AND I rejected her first proof she sent over (because I changed my mind about the photo I’d selected) and made her start the entire process over again with a new photo. Yes, I’m that person.

During the entire process Megan was nice and friendly, never grumbled (to my face at least!), and treated me like she was my Realtor trying to find me a perfect home aka: she acted like my best friend in the entire world while I hemmed and hawed and viewed countless photos.

If that isn’t real professionalism and the gosh-darn best Customer Support I’ve ever received then my names not Betty! 😉 I bet if I lived in the DC area she would have invited me over for a home-cooked meal and a Red Box. Yes, she honestly IS that nice. Boom. (Her favorite word, so I figured I should throw that in there).

One fine day, the {Modern} Birds were chirping and the UPS (or was it FedEx?) guy arrived with a huge package for ME! (Oh happy day!). I tore that package open quicker than a dog chasing a cat, quicker than a drug addict taking a hit, quicker than a fat person eating a doughnut. Unfortunately it was some computer part for the hubby. BUT THE NEXT DAY, the guy in brown delivered my very own Modern Bird original.

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Oh hell ya, baby!

Srsly. This painting is the bomb-diggidy-dawg.

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I did not know such perfection and beauty even existed on this planet. I wondered if I loved it even extra super-duper more because it was MY baby in the painting, but nope, seems everyone is loving on this painting.

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Gregg is a freakin’ Super Star in my book. I’ve been staring at this painting for a few weeks now, and I still can’t take my eyes away from it.

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One of the many amazing thing about this artwork is the texture of it. It’s not just flat paint. It’s got a real gritty lovely texture that one can only appreciate in real life (which is why you should totally order one for yourself!). I tried to capture the depth and texture of the art.

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Another amazing quality of their art is that you can see the texture of the wood grain through the paint.

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Unless you are color-blind you’ve noticed the painting is gray and yellow. I purposely chose those two colors because I knew eventually I’d paint my family room gray (and will use yellow as an accent color) and I wanted to display this artwork in there.

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So, I bet you are just literally dying right there in your seat wanting to see the original photo, right?

Here’s my sweet Kinsey in 2008 on the Jersey Shore (unfortunately we didn’t hang with Snooki that day). If you want specifics because you just love the armpit of the US (hey, I’m allowed to say that because I actually lived in the armpit of the US!), we lived and beached in Long Branch. And I loved every.single.second. of it. If my family didn’t all live in Austin, I’d totally live up on the East Coast again. LOVED it.

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And here’s my painting.

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Pure talent. What more can I say? Modern Bird just moved to my #1 Favorite Art spot, unfortunately bumping this guy to #2.

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  8. The piece of your daughter is AMAZING!! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!! 🙂

  13. There are a few things in this world I wish I could do. One of them is paint. Not just a wall, but really paint. these are amazing!

  14. LOVE it! That is JUST what I’m looking for to hang in our newly painted Family Room (you know…the room with the bare walls!).

  15. Oh my goodness I would LOVE this! And I have the perfect picture too 🙂 of all of my 5 kids’ feet!

    Thanks!

  18. I would love to have a beautiful custom art image of my baby bug !

  22. I love Modern Bird Studios! and the painting of your daughter is amazing – great color choice!

  25. Wow, that is absolutely gorgeous! I LOVE the color choice, and the way it turned out is amazing. That will be something you cherish forever!

  41. Love how Kinsey doodle turned out! Would love one of my Cabe-man!

  42. I would love to win this! thanks for entering me! I follow – gfc and google reader

  44. I would love to win this giveaway!

    lanzaelizabeth77 at gmail dot com

  46. I am a facebook follower (Liz Lanza)

    lanzaelizabeth77 at gmail dot com

  50. I have a spot on my wall that is just waiting for the perfect piece. I know it needs to be a Modern Bird piece.

  52. oh eemm gee! the piece they did for you looks a mazing, love the color choices! Megan is such fun to chat er tweet with! she cracks me up!

  60. That is absolutely amazing!!! I love the texture of the piece!!!

    Im a follower of yours!!!
    I really hope you pick me!!!!

  62. I saw the painting of your little girl on modern bird and was in LOVE with it..and now I find out it’s yours! BEAUTIFUL!!

    I am a facebook follower!

  63. I am a fan of Modern Bird on FB!! Drooooool over their work regulary and dream about where I would hang the masterpiece in my house.
    Found you today & am LOVING you! Laughing while enjoying my morning cup of joe!

  65. Ohhhh I hope I win this. I have two brand new twin girls that would look amazing painted!

  73. I BIG pink puffy heart Modern Bird. I would LOVE a piece of my own.

  80. I would love to win! I would have the hardest time narrowing it down to one photograph to use!

  82. how about my stacy hancock? ;0)

    sure hope i have luck with me today!! and i follow you on gfc now under stacythemagnificentmommy

  91. Never would have thought of yellow and grey…..but it is STUNNING! Love it. Would love to win one of my own 🙂

  92. I just started following you (via my locognome@gmail.com addy). This was one of the best reviews of their art I’ve seen. I’ve never seen someone take a pic of the painting up close and to be honest… I never knew they were paintings (DOH) just that they looked so cool…. now I REALLY need one!

  98. That is totally awesome!!! I love it! I love all of them!! Put my name in for sure!!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

  99. I have never seen such unique ways of doing art. My sister in law is a photographer and I would LOVE to share this with her too. So awesome!

  101. Love the picture you chose! I’d love to win and then agonize over what to get. 🙂

  106. You are right, that IS the bomb-diggity.
    I would LOVE to win one of these AWESOME works of art. Seriously? Yes, SERIOUSLY. I am in LOVE.
    Thanks for the chance to win. Fingers, toes and eyes are crossed. 🙂

  114. I recently discovered Modern Bird Studios by accident and have been an enthusiastic fan ever since! The art is amazing! It’s a chance to view a new interpretation of a favorite photo. I will definitely be purchasing my own Modern Bird piece some time soon!

    Not only is the art stunning but I found a new favorite blogger, http://www.prettyalltrue.com through Modern Birds Facebook posts today. Love, LOVING you guys!!!

  119. That seriously might be THE BEST Modern Bird Studios work I have seen! I LOVE IT!!

    AND as a “fatty” I must tell you, not all of us eat our doughnuts fast. I love doughnuts and therefore eat them slowly….savoring every bite…eyes closed….in the dark…..inside my closet! 🙂

  124. I love this so much. Thank you. The painting is beautiful and so is your little one!

  125. I have been LUSTING after Modern Bird’s work for over six months now. My husband hasn’t seen it and I would love to get one of our son and put it up to surprise my hubby one day!

  129. This would make us sooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy! Our home needs this art! 🙂

    🙂

  132. I have never been a huge gray and yellow fan, but I think you may have just converted me! Beautiful and quirky and classic all at once!

    Thanks so much for offering this giveaway!

  136. Just found Modern Bird on Twitter a couple days ago and would LOVE one of these awesome paintings!!

  138. I would love to win this! I am friends with you on Google Friends Connect.

  142. I absolutely adore the paintings! The paining of Kinsey is so beautiful! I have a perfect picture in mind!

  143. I follow Modern Bird Studios on Twitter, and I proved it with a tweet 🙂

  149. I’m following your blog. And I think the picture you chose is PERFECT!
    Jenn

  156. I would love to have one of these paintings of my kids in my living room!! Love it!! I am also headed to facebook right now to like Modern Bird…….BTW I also love your blog!!

  157. this is unbelievably cool! would so love to win this kind of art for our home. You did a great job of photographing yours to show us, too! I’m a Google follower, pick me!

  158. LOVE this…so beautiful and different. I love the colors you chose to go in your newly painted family room!

    I have a spot ready for some Modern Bird!

    Thanks.

    ~a

  160. I’m so glad to find you through Modern Bird! Even if I know I’ll spend the rest of the afternoon going through all the great craft tutorials! LOL! Love Modern Bird!! Love your painting-the colors are perfect!

  161. I love modern bird and I love their new line of Modtots. Someday I will have one of their prints in my house, I’d love for it to be now. Thanks!

  162. I’m already a follower of Modern Bird on twitter (@seemommyknit) and tweeted about this great giveaway! Boom!

  163. I’m a googlefriend follower!!! Love Modern Bird and your site!!

  165. I “like” you on FB as well!! I hope I can win, I have three gorgeous children and this would be a perfect addition to my living room wall!!

  166. That is amazing!! Love your color choices! I would love to be entered into the giveaway. Thanks so much!

  171. OMG i would LOVE to win! this is amazing and i want to see a painting in person! LOVE IT!

    haley =)

  177. I follow with GFC & would love to have one of these paintings! Awesome!

  184. Your painting is beautiful! The grey and yellow together are stunning (ok, now I want to paint my house grey, seriously!)

  192. I love Modern Birds designs! I follow via GFC.
    – Danielle
    other-option AT hotmail DOT com

  194. I’ve been drooling over these for a while now but just haven’t taken the plunge to order one yet. (already a follower of your blog)

  208. I’m a new blog follower and this would be a great picture to put up on our mantle of our triplets!

  209. These. Are. GORGEOUS!

    I am stunned by their beauty and would adore having one in my home. Thanks for the opportunity to win something very special.

    Di

  210. Well heck…all I am giving away on my blog is a Husky tool set but shoot….come on over and visit anyway. Everyone can use a good screw….driver set. 🙂 You know…my birthday is Monday so I so totally deserve to win this gift certificate….don’t ya’ think? 🙂 I am following.

  212. WOW, WOW and WOW!!! These are gorgeous!!! Good thing I’m not rich or my fortune would all be spent on these paintings! AMAZING!!!

  214. I follow you!! ahh I love Modern Bird. I’d die if I won. (Not really…but my heat might skip a beat!)

  215. I follow Modern Bird and you on Twitter. I tweeted about the giveaway! @ElephantsTrunk4

  217. I LOVE modern bird studios! I have been admiring their work for a long time! Your painting turned out incredible!!!!!

  222. Oh wow, just amazing!

    And I think its totally cool that Gregg spells his name exactly like my husband; with two g’s on the end! 🙂

  224. Love the painting of your daughter. I’d have a hard time choosing one too.

  225. I would love to get a painting done of my dog. There’s never any good Rottweiler art out there, so I think it’s time we change that!

  231. I just love these!! They are just beautiful!! I would be such a great addition to my living room shelves display!! I so want to win!!

  240. As if your blog wasn’t rad enough… Thanks for the killer giveaway! I hope I win. 🙂

  247. I follow MBS on FB (and as of today, HoH, too). P.S. The Princeton Review called Waco the armpit of the US, but I loved it there anyway and would move back given the chance.

  249. This is AMAZING!!! I absolutely love it. My daughter is almost done with high school and going off to college so I would love to have a pic of her now to keep and look at when she just up and abandons me. Lol. I love when I find blogs by people from the south. I can understand what you’re saying cause I’m from here too. I was born in AR and bred in LA. I love it here. I wouldn’t live anywhere else. Where else can you live and have the ability to have your favorite word be y’all? Love it. And love this giveaway.

    GFC follower as lewalk.

  256. Awesomeness-it’s kind of like turning a photo into an Andy Warhol style print, except cooler. I love the added dimension of the texture of the paint.

  260. Your little Kinsey is the most darling art subject I’ve ever seen! And I love the Jersey Shore, too!

  262. That painting is incredible! I would love to have Modern Bird Studios create a piece of artwork for my home!
    –Leigh

  263. And I “like” them on Facebook, too (Melissa D—–). Thank you!

  265. This is awesome! Love love love it!
    Crossing my fingers!
    I already follow you gfc.

  270. Totally letting dancing Mickey babysit my kid as I enter this! So pretty!

  272. Oh yes ma’am, I would love to have our wee one painted. He or she is still cooking, so I’ve got a little time. I’m a happy follower, of course.

  273. What an incredibly awesome giveaway!!! Already trying to figure out which photo I’d use! Love your story and the photo/painting of your little munchkin!!! Oh yea, I’m a follower!

  277. A good friend of mine suggested Modern Bird to me and frankly, I love it! I do similar work, just less advanced. It’s quite inspiring. Thank you from one artist to another. <3

  279. Amazing artistry – Gregg does a fabulous job! Good luck everyone!!

  281. Oh I have the most beautiful pic of the New York City skyline outside St. Patrick’s cathedral. I’ve been wanting to do something magical with it! I’m crossing my fingers! Thank you for the fabulous giveaway.

  298. I have the cutest little Rockstar on the planet and he would look spectacular on a piece created by the out-of-this-world-talented artist you have introduced me to! Ohhhhh puh-lease let my name be drawn!

  304. Wow…I just love that photo conversion…so sweet. I’d love to win of DH and me for our Love Shack 😉

  305. I’m following you on twitter (and I tweeted the tweet you said) and I liked you on facebook!! Yay!

    Tania

  307. If I won this I would use it for my niece who has three of the cutest boys ever!

    I am a follower of course!

    bee blessed
    mary

  309. I really want to win this. I already have the perfect picture in mind and the perfect place to hang it!!!!

  311. Your picture turned out beautiful! I would LOVE me one of those! Please pick me!

  312. I would absolutely love to win something this amazing… I think it would be a picture from my wedding. You are awesome for hosting this giveaway =)

  318. I would LOVE to win this because I’m smack dab in the middle of working on my art wall in our living room. This would be the crown jewel!

  319. Modern Bird is awesome! I love their stuff! Thanks for holding this giveaway.

  323. Wow, what a great picture. I would love one of my own. Fingers crossed that I win one.

  326. It would be awesome to win this! I have lots of bare walls in my house begging for some color!

  329. (acting like a 2 year old) Mine! Mine! Give it!

    Have the perfect subject. My Chi-hua-hua!

  334. What a fun work of art! Allison, thanks for hosting this wonderful giveaway. I could think of several images that I would love to have done ib this modern art design.
    Thanks you getting out a message to me about this!
    Yvonne

  357. I love your blog, and I love the beautiful picture of your daughter – it’s fantastic!

    Reeta

  372. Holy cow. That is such a work of art and yes, all the more spectacular as the inspiration is your sweet girl. LOVE it.
    Also love the GIVEAWAY aspect. Heading to Twitter and FB now…
    By the way, I always thought that Miami (I’m a former resident…) was the armpit of the U.S.? I guess I’ll have to plan a trip to Jersey to see! -diane

  389. wow. that is amazing art work, just amazing. i would love to win! good luck everyone! (and of course i’m a follower!)

  392. I liked Modern Bird Studios on FB too! but i don’t do twitter…ugh.

  398. I think these are so beautiful!! Would love to win!
    clsch6(at)gmail(dot)com

  399. Amazing! This kind of artwork would look wonderful in my living room gallery space…I love the effect…!!

  400. This is an awesome and original art idea!! I love how yours turned out!!! I have the perfect picture in mind for when I win! lol
    Have a great weekend and thanks for the invite to enter!

  401. I’m a fan of Modern Bird on facebook! (And HoH for that matter!)
    clsch6(at)gmail(dot)com

  415. How amazing is this?! And you’re right, gorgeous! I’d be thrilled to win this! Suzie purrpage3[at]verizon[dot]net

  418. Loving your Blog. As a full time art teacher and mom I feel my own home is sooo neglected! Thanks for inspiring me!
    Heather

  419. This is absolutely beautiful!! Hands down the best painting I’ve seen! 🙂 congrats on the beautiful painting of your little girl!

  422. I am a fan on Facebook as Susan T Hahaj!
    Suzie purpage3[at]verizon[dot]net

  434. I even commented on Modern Bird Studios FB page (so that means I hit that “like” button) how wonderful you are.

  447. That painting is beautiful. I would love one of those! I’m afraid I might be a customer just like you, though. So I hope Megan really is that patient 😉

  449. Wow, that is amazing! I would LOVE to win one of these – I have the perfect picture in mind!

  467. I love your blog! I follow it on my blogger dashboard. I also ‘like’ HoH and Modern Bird Studios on FB.

  484. The picture you took was great. The painting is out of this world. Seriously – Wow!
    I hope I win!
    Thanks for the opportunity!

  488. Hey! I tell you what, the art of your daughter is AWESOME! Just too marv-vel-us for words! Luving it! Jenny

  493. I love your daughter’s picture. My husband would love that color combo or something like that with a picture of our daughter. He’s an artist and much more into modern art than I. I’d give it to him for his birthday or father’s day or sooner.

    I’m already a follower.

  499. Modern Bird’s artwork is simply beautiful. What an extraordinary way to remember your special little one at this time in your lives. I hope very much that I win — thanks, Allison, for the chance at this pretty darn wonderful giveaway!
    Judith Ann

  511. Ohh what a great giveaway! I have so many pics. I would love to win! the one of your little darling is to die for! LOVE it! Thanks for the opportunity!

  513. the painting that he did for you turned out awesome – love the colors

  515. I follow Modern Bird Studios on Twitter and I tweeted this giveaway

  516. I am a new follower! I love that painting and really want one of my little guys!

  517. Stunning!!! I’ve never seen anything like that before. Thank you for showing off this outrageously talented artist!!!

  518. Holy Moly!!! That picture is amazing!!! I know just what Picture I would love to use!!!

  519. this is absolutely amazing! I would love a painting like this of my family portrait! Oh, my goodness. thanks for offering this amazing giveaway!

    Rachelle

  527. OH how I would love to win. I saw them post this painting and just loved it – congrats for it being YOUR photo! 🙂 It’s awesome/indeed!

  529. Never seen anything quite like it, I think it is awesome! Hope I win…I’ll start searching for the perfect picture just in case I do! 🙂

  532. Wow. That is pretty amazing. I love the texture of it. What a special piece of art!

  537. ME ME ME ME ME, I love those paintings, so cool!
    I will have to get one!

  538. I have considered selling plasma to get the money for my very own Modern Bird piece, but since I am afraid of needles I resort to giveaways!

  541. Isn’t that just the neatest thing! I am a follower via GFC and would love to win that! 🙂

  545. This is AMAZING!!! I hope I win 🙂
    I am a Google Follower.

  547. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE one of these AMAZING paitings! It’s absolutely beautiful!

    I follow your blog! Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
    ~Teresa

  555. Love it. I’ve been in desperate need of some fun art around my new house and this would be perfect. I already have a picture in mind!

    JC

  556. Even though it decreases my chances of winning, I just tweeted about the giveaway (@justsayjuliec) 🙂

  557. I would be BEYOND PUMPED to win this painting!

    My daughter is a Senior this year…she is a kick-butt pitching machine for her school…their colors are black & orange…all this equals the most killer painting!!! Seriously, how awesome a graduation gift would this be?!

    Thanks for the chance! 🙂