"Beach Lines", acrylic on canvas. 24" x 30". Framed. $995.00.

Trees

This painting is titled "Trees". Poured acrylic on 140-lb watercolor paper. The size is 28" H x 36" W. Unframed, $595. Framed, $650. Shipping not included, but should be somewhere around $40.

This necklace has close to 3,000 seed beads in it. There are also biwa pearls, other pearls, Czech cathedral beads, Swarovski bicone and 8mm crystals, a center India lampwork bead, and a toggle clasp. Length about 28". $125.00. SOLD



This is a handmade paper art sculpture made from my own handmade paper. It sells for $35.00.

Finalmente...these are called "Brown Sugar" and it took me about two hours to get them to post! This set of polymer clay beads is priced at $10.00. SOLD

Bracelet

I call this one "Eat Your Greens". It has faceted jade, faceted jaspers, tubular jade, Czech seed beads, toggle clasp, crystals. The length is 7 1/2". $45.00.

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The Perfect Bracelet

This is what I call "The Perfect Bracelet" because the colors are perfect together, the size is perfect, the textures are perfect, it hangs on the wrist perfectly, it feels great as you wear it. Carnelian stones, seed beads. 7 1/2 inches accommodates the wrist without being too large. $45.00. SOLD

Bowl, made from my own handmade papers, cast into 7 1/2" x 5" form. Gold embroidery thread decorations, with gold painted rim. $40.00.

Beads, close-up, after glazing. After this, I will arrange them into groups and post to my Etsy shop - just do a search for tmkrowan after you go to the Etsy web.

Beads, another view of the glazed beads.  This shows all the beads. There are 25 in this batch.

Another view, a more "overhead" view, of the beads after they've been glazed.

This is the latest bead garden that I've made. Soon, I will be posting these and others to an Etsy account. Large one sell for $3.00; medium ones sell for $2.00, and small ones sell for $1.00 if bought individually. The sets, however, usually consisting of 5 - 6 assorted beads, will sell for less as a group.

Turquoise-colors.

I must say that most of these have sold already, but there are still some left in this leopard-looking group.

Pinks. These are now glazed. This photo was pre-glaze.

 

Stage Three: mounted on blue matte board, then matted with purple matte board. After this, I just need to get the gold frame and clear acrylic to protect it. Finished size: 18" x 14". Framed: $200. Unframed: $175.00.

Handmade papers formed into a bowl. I make the paper, then I make things out of the paper. These bowls are some of the things I make. Most of the bowls are between 5 - 6 inches in diameter, and between 2 - 4 inches deep. Most of them are surprisingly sturdy. They're varnished after formed.

Side view of the bowl that's above.

Delicate bowl, with purchased dried flowers added.

This bowl has several layers. I've taken a couple of photos of the outside of the bowl, to show the "strata".

Another view of the same bowl, outside layers.

This is one side of the above bowl, with its stratas of thick paper.

A second view from the side of the bowl, showing a little more of the inside.

This bowl has a random edge, edged in gold paint. Most of my bowls are edged with gold paint.

Another rather delicate bowl - when you hold it up to the light, you can see through this one, and the other delicate one that's above. Again, purchased dried flowers have been added to the inside of this bowl.

Side view of the delicate bowl that's shown above.

Using my handmade papers, I am in the process of creating a collage. I've used 140-lb watercolor paper as the base on which I'm doing the collage work. It holds up well, and doesn't warp. Stage one. 12" x 9".

Stage two: I've edged the different pieces of the collage with gold paint, and will mount this on the blue matte board. Then I will matte it with the purple matte board. I'm going to use a thin gold metal frame on this. The finished size will be 18" x 14".

A little paper rose, worked into handmade paper background. 8" x 6". No gold paint - I left this as a soft presentation.

 

 

Copper bowl, gold top edge. This bowl is hard as a rock.

 

This bowl, and others that I've made like it, have been formed from handmade paper that I created out of left-over art papers. The papers were formed inside a plastic bowl. The pieces of handmade paper were joined using acrylic gloss gel. Afterward, the entire bowl was glazed with acrylic gloss glaze, and I edged the bowl with "Emperor's Gold" acrylic paint. The bowl is about 7" across, and 4" high. The dried flowers were added after the bowl was formed.

 

Messing around with oil paints, I came up with this little guy who reminds me of van Gogh...SOLD

Bead garden: red, black, white and gold polymer clay beads.

Long beads are $3.00 each. Round beads are $1.00 each.

Bead garden: red, white and blue variations. Long beads are $3.00 each.

 Round beads are $1.00 each.

Example of a bead with wire: "Nu-gold" wire, 18gauge; long bead.

All beads prepared like this (either Nu-gold or sterling wire) are $3.50 each.

This looks like a box of assorted candies...All long beads are $3.00 each.

This includes "leaf-style" and other pendant shapes. Medium length tubes are $2.00 each.

All round beads are $1.00 each. I'm going to photograph them in "sets" and post them on Etsy.



This is my set-up for rolling tiles of the same thickness. I sacrificed my yardstick...

These are some beads that I made from the remnants of the tiles, left over after trimming the tiles.

This is one of the photos of the tiles just after I baked them. I'm using them to edge two shelves in my wet bar area. The glass shelves crashed, taking some glasses with them, last week.

 

 

I made this for a friend of mine. The sea glass pendant is sterling wire wrapped, from sea glass that I found by diving for it into the waves on the Jersey Shore. The other beads are: turquoise, aquamarine, and seed beads. The toggle clasp is silver-plate. This necklace is 24 inches in length. If you wish to have one like this, it will be a little different but with the same theme. Each one is individually made, according to what I have in sea glass, and how the wire wrap goes together. The cost for a pendant necklace like this is between $75.00 - $85.00, depending on the length and the amount of silver that I use for the wrap.

 

I call these "Leopard Beads" because that's what they look like. The long ones are $3.00; the medium ones are $2.00; the small round ones are $1.00 per item. (plus shipping, of course) SOLD