Painting Live in the Presence of Dinosaurs

As a live wedding painter you NEVER know where you might paint. For The Smith wedding I painted in one of the most unique settings to date!

The Discovery Park of America is a place of wonder. It’s a museum, heritage park, and gallery of nature and science. Among its many exhibits, the Natural History Gallery hosts the Dinosaur Hall, where full-scale skeleton reproductions—Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Appalachiosaurus—loom overhead.

My canvas held the couple in front of the charming chapel on the grounds, but what made the day unforgettable wasn’t only what I painted—it was what surrounded my painting station. Painting live in the Dinosaur Hall was like stepping between past and present.

Guests mingled beneath the skeleton of a Triceratops, champagne flutes in hand. Children craned their necks upward, wide-eyed at the T. rex looming over my easel.

There was something exhilarating about painting in that space. Guests would pause on their way to the bar or the dance floor, glance from my canvas up to the dinosaur, and smile at the sheer uniqueness of it all.

Here’s to unique wedding venues that spark wonder, to couples who choose spaces that tell a story, and to the joy of painting love in the most unexpected places.