Jewelry

I have a fairly large collection of pins, necklaces and other handpainted and beaded items. These few are my favorites (well, today anyways). Most peices are very colorful, and look great with a wide variety of outfits- let me know if you are looking for a particular color range.

I love this necklace! I goes with so many different colors, and it's unique asymetrical design is a real attention getter. It's a great addition to your wardrobe and will complete so many outfits- priced at $35.00, it is 26" long.

A handpainted and embellished pin about 2" square, in dusty colors on a dreamy background- perfect with dusty pastel fall colors, on a creamy colored sweater, or soft dusty green suit. Just $20.00

A pin in cooler colors, purples, blues and teals, but with a spark of pure orange for excitement. would be wonderful on navy, raisin or deep aubergine as a wonderful accent. About 1.75 by 1.25 in size, it is just $20.00.

If you are local to me and want to see the whole collection (it's pretty extensive) just contact me, or ask me to send you a few e-mail photos to select from.

Finished Painting!

The Landscape with Fairies painting I have been working on was completed last week, and installed this afternoon, so I thought a picture or two might be a good idea:
I love the way this looks in the small space- and it really does what we were hoping it would do- visually expand the room so that it seems a lot bigger than it is.

This is the companion piece- a handpainted mirror in a small office- really a nifty idea for a windowless office.
What do you think? Comments are welcome. Want to see more of my work? Click here to go to my web site.

Fall Inspiration

I've started work on a fall line of jewelry! The above picture is actually the beginnings of the process- a painted collage of colors and techniques that will be cut up and painted on more motifs added and metallics, wrapped with fiber, embellished with beads and wire and made into a pin or necklace. It's a lengthy process, I create a bunch of them at a time, but expect to have some completed in the next couple of weeks and ready for sale.

Work in Progress

The client's mirror, handpainted with a scene to her specifications, including some pretty little butterflies and flowers representing family birthdays.
Below are some WIP shots of a companion painting for her- no where near completed, I thought it might be fun to show the process as it unfolds.


Below are some updated progress photos, posted September 10.

Making changes

I've been hard at work lately- not in my studio, but in my office, completely revamping my web site, one of my other blogs- Inspiration, and adding some different links in to this blog, In the Garden and Bea and Byrdie my dog's blog. I'd love it if you could take a look at the web site, and let me know what you think- good or bad. I've added a few things, changed it A LOT, hopefully made it easier to navigate, friendlier, and lighter. I've added a guest book for comments and contact information too, so let me know you visited!
And now I'll get back to the studio- there's ATC notecards to be made, a new painting, a Fall line of jewelry to begin- the list goes on and on!

Small collages

These were fun to create! Below are just a couple as an example of the series of 5 collages.

"Hope"

"Happiness"

Each is 8 inches by 10 inches, created on artists canvas board using my handpainted papers, photography from my garden, and my favorite quotes to create an inpirational work of art. They are shipped unframed, for you to frame to coordinate with your interiors (8 x 10 is an easy size to find in stock)

Look who I found!

You have to check this artist out! It's Lori Andrews and she is sooooo talented! I'm in the process of trading blog links with her- so check out her blog: Watercolors by Lori Andrews it's amazing- not only are her watercolors exceptional with such saturated colors and wonderful contrasts, but she has links to her You Tube demonstrations of how they were done. Beautiful work and gorgeous photography of it as well. I'm going to go visit again and again, whenever I need to see something wonderful and colorful in my life. There are links to find out where to buy her art too as well as some other interesting things in the sidebar. Kudos, Lori!