Smae Designs

Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing moms out there! 🌸
Thank you for your endless love, strength, patience, and sacrifices. Your care and support make the world a better place every single day. Wishing you a day filled with happiness, love, and appreciation—you truly deserve it. 💖
Smae Designs

Eight of nine acrylic portraits painted on 12-inch wooden plates, completed in December and inspired by eight unique models, created just in time for the holiday season’s most meaningful personalized gifts. Each piece is rendered in a bold abstract expressionist style, alive with vibrant, emotive hues and dynamic color harmonies.

Deeply Grateful to those who continue to embrace and support SMae Designs — your faith in my art fuels the journey forward. 🎨✨

The Holy Family
The Reason for the Season

🎄🎨Another acrylic painting on a round wooden plate that depicts a stylized Nativity scene, portraying Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus beneath a deep, star-filled night sky.

Rendered in a semi-abstract, minimalist style with softly blended colors and simplified facial features, emphasizing emotion over detail.

Mary’s flowing blue cloak and Joseph’s green robe gently frame the glowing child at the center, creating a sense of warmth, protection, and quiet reverence. A shepherd’s staff rises behind them, while the golden rim of the plate and scattered stars add a sacred, celestial quality, symbolizing hope, faith, and the divine light of the Christmas story.🎨✨

“Strength in stillness — where identity, resilience, and depth of character meet.”

One of nine commissioned acrylic portraits, created for an art enthusiast.

Deeply Grateful to those who continue to embrace and support SMae Designs — your faith in my art fuels the journey forward. 🎨✨

Model: Vic Escandor

❗️SOLD❗️
Roots of Resilience
10.12.2025
9.8 x 13
Acrylic on wooden plank

Painted in vibrant acrylics on a wooden plank, Roots of Resilience portrays two radiant red flowers rising from a bed of greenery and soft pink blooms. The bold crimson petals symbolize courage and vitality, standing out against a muted, shadowed background that hints at struggle and adversity.

Despite their delicate form, the flowers reach upward. Their strength born from contrast, their beauty intensified by the darkness behind them that even in uncertain times, life continues to push toward the light. The sturdy wood beneath the paint echoes this message, a reminder that, like these blossoms, our roots can anchor us through life’s tempests while our spirits bloom anew.