The Painted Artist

I love old scrimshaw, so I wanted to make a mermaid bracelet that looks like Antique Ivory. I think it looks like a bracelet found in an ant...

All summer my poor dragon sat, wingless. The summers here in Colorado provide wonderful weather for working outdoors. So I take the opportu...

Celebrate the return of the monarch butterflies. Perched on your finger, with his little wings uplifted, he looks so real, even his little b...

This delightful castle ring has been a year in in design. My fantasy castle ring had to be absolutely fabulous and it had to be strong and d...

Finally, I have perfected my method for making these rings. Originally, making the butterflies was a hit-or-miss endeavor. Approximately hal...

I wanted to try something different, with my favorite seahorse mold. Also, I had these fantastic Swarovski beads, just begging to be used. I...

I had been thinking about adding pearls to one of my coral resin bracelet designs for a while. I wanted a better attachment method than glue...

I love silver jewelry, and have made sterling silver jewelry in the past. Being familiar with good quality silver, I am very picky about the...

This mermaid measures 5-1/2 inches wide by 3 inches from top to bottom. At each side are 2 resin starfish bead caps and 3 strands of real bo...

Imagine a bride wearing this Mermaid Necklace for a spring or summer wedding. Fabulous! This beautiful Mermaid and Sea Life Necklace combi...

A new design, fresh from my studio, just in time for spring. Imagine this necklace on a bride for a spring or summer wedding. Fabulous! For ...

The color combinations of these bracelets is endless. I just had to try one in my favorite color, turquoise. Like an ice cold drink, these...

My Family is getting bored being couped up all winter. Experimental cooking has become the thing to do at our house. Last night we had Stir-...

I have been working on a process for "painting" my resin jewelry castings. This is my first large scale test of applying multiple ...

When creating a new mold, it makes economic sense if the mold can be used for more than one design. The molds I make are expensive to produc...

I was rummaging through an old box of fabrics when I came across some lace I had bought years ago. This beautiful old lace gave me an idea. ...

This bracelet has been on my design list for a while now. I wanted a resin bracelet that was easy on and off, comfortable to wear, and oval ...

I have a new bracelet design that requires an oval shaped bracelet mandrel for final heat treating. I bought a cast steel mandrel years ago ...

My banana trees are happily spending the winter in my studio. Unfortunately, they are harboring tiny fugitives - gnats! A few gnats are not ...

Today, I tried casting my new mermaid bracelet design in gold pigmented resin. I then gave it an antiquing wash of black acrylic paint to br...