I'm finally back again, atleast I feel that way....after 5 weeks of being under the weather with hives, a span of time I now lovingly refer to as "The hell of my life", I'm back to normal and feeling great. Feeling like myself means I'm back in the studio painting up a storm again, just starting to get things going by finishing a new contemporary multi-canvas tree-scape and starting work on more pendants. I'm trying at this point to get ready for the holiday season ahead, shocking to think it will be here before we know it. I started back to work with a custom Hummingbird pendant. This is one of my favorites, I love these beautiful birds and I love the colors of this particular pendant.
I have a lot of fun painting the abstract pieces......"Rainbow" above and "Pretty In Pink" below.
I've been having a great time experimenting with fused glass as well...."Nighttime Poppies" above is one of my favorites.
The onlyl part I have a horrible time with is the waiting period on each piece. The colors on the back and front are fused to the glass so once I create the background, I have to wait 24 hours or so before I can heat the glass. Do I always do this......No, not really, sometime I cheat and bake them ahead of schedule. I really need to force myself to wait though, as they come out better when I stick to the prescribed waiting time.
"Impressionist Garden" is above and this piece is "Blue Sky Garden" because of the blue background, it reminds me of a sunny day garden.
There are really no limits to the possibilities.....whether a garden in spring, like above or a custom order purple Thistle pendant below.
"Contemporary Tulip" and "Through The Trees" below are more paintings on sand dollars.
I hope you've enjoyed the new wearable art pendants.....everyone stay well and enjoy the lovely weather. Most of these pieces are now available on my ETSY shop at:
www.artfulcreations.etsy.com 
On another note, I would like to mention my friend Barbara Jacksier, who just published a beautiful book "Waterside Cottages" and launched a brand new website and internet shop at:
If you have a minute, stop by and say hello and check out her brand new book and website.
I hope everyones holiday was a wonderful one......I really enjoyed my time away and it enabled me to accomplish a lot of painting, both jewelry and canvas work but I missed blogging and connecting with my friends out there in blog land.
I can hardly believe the holiday season is here.....(I think I'm in denial) I feel like summer just ended yesterday. I've been painting so many new pendant designs and having a lot of fun with them.
While I've painted a couple of glass and sand dollar pendants, I've mostly been running a muck with painted wooden pendants. They remind me very much of painting on larger pieces of wood, when I was creating welcome plaques, only these of course, are small wearable miniature pieces of art.
It is a surface that allows me to get really creative and try new things I might not have tried jumping into before. Some are impressionist in style like the one above, while others are contemporary or even zen.
I've added colored necklaces to some of my pendants to coordinate with their colors. This really makes the colors pop out like the yellow contemporary garden above.
This is the character for "Eternity" and I'm calling this one a zen pendant. I've made 2 so far but hope to create more in upcoming weeks.
Some of the necklaces, like the one above, have silver or gray beads added to them to create lots of sparkle and shine and give the piece extra dimention.
These contemporary white poppies are set against a heavily textured background, a technique I was experimenting with that I will definately repeat in the future.
I hope you've enjoyed the latest round of pendant creations, I'll be back later this week to show my latest canvas painting. These pieces are on my ETSY site: http://www.artfulcreations.etsy.com/ .
