What's An Artist To Do....

Ok, so the question is, what's an artist to do when she is in what I like to call (a sudafed induced brain coma ) brought about by the deliberate ingestion of this product to relieve horrible allergies?? You obviously cannot paint when you are in this state but you can still be creative. The pendants in this post originated from just the situation I described...I was feeling poorly over the weekend and couldn't paint but I decided to get creative with some new pendant designs. Large and bold designs taken from various painted pieces I've done over they years. The bird is from a ceiling tin and the Morning Glory is from a gourd.

The bluebird is created from a jewelry box and the lady bug from a goose eggshell pin.

The dragonfly from an eggshell pin and the butterfly from a turkey display egg.

The purple African Violets are from an eggshell pin and the chickadee is from....I cannot remember where. Seriously, I cannot remember but I better figure it out soon.

The butterfly image from a ceiling tin and the pink rose from an eggshell pin. Until next time when my brain is hopefully more clear....enjoy.

More Artful Pendants........

I hope everyone had a really wonderful holiday and is still enjoying their weekend. We've still got company but I'm going to try to get to putting the finishing touches on my faux window so I can be done with it and ready to start the next one.

In the meantime though I've been running around making some more pendants for my shop. The 5 above are all from paintings I've created in the past, that I thought might lend themselves to the rectangular shape of the glass pieces.

I'm creating a special section in my shop for Exotic Orchids because that is exactly what they are, exotic beauties that really need their own place to bloom.

These photos were all taken at the 2008 NY Botanical Garden Orchid Show this past March. If you want to see photos of that gorgeous show and glimpses of shows from the previous years, just visit my "out and about" section in the column to the right. The show is a must see and is filled with rooms and rooms of gorgeous orchids cascading and growing up from every imaginable surface. Truly a treat for the eyes.

Artful Pendants

I've started a new creative adventure that I'm having a tremendous amount of fun with, I'm creating glass art pendants from my paintings and photographs. I've also launched a new ETSY shop, Artful Pendants!

I have to say that making each pendant by hand is very therapeutic and relaxing. I'll be adding more and more pendants to my shop over time but for now, I feel I'm off to a good start.

All the pendants, whether they are photographs or paintings, are inspired by nature and therefore, I felt I had to do something quite special and "natural" when photographing them. I have to say, taking photos of them is almost as much fun as creating them.

Pendants are $7.50 a piece and I will always be running a buy 2 get one free offer. I hope you will visit my new ETSY shop and enjoy these new nature inspired pieces. http://www.artfulpendants.etsy.com/ .