Mini Paintings

Here are 2 more miniature paintings finished, these will be varnished and wire-wrapped as pendants.

The tiger is approx. 1 1/4" x 1 1/2", and the egret is 1" x 2 1/4".

More Pendants

More pendants are coming!  The unwrapped paintings are still in the underlayer stage, and still need 1-2 more painting sessions to finish.  The pendant blanks have all been sanded and are almost ready for painting.

Most of these are 1-2 inches in size.  I'm using Golden Open Acrylics for this project and the wire wrap is silver-filled.  My usual brushes and a penny for size comparison.  :)

Fine Wood Pendants

Thanks to everyone for the great response to the handpainted pendants!  It's been quite an adventure putting 3 distinct techniques - woodworking, fine wirewrapping, and miniature painting - together to make these. 

Because some of the reclaimed hardwood pieces I have are so intriguing by themselves, I am also starting to make some unpainted pendants that will show off the beauty of these wood pieces.

Each has been finely sanded and is bordered by a silver-filled wirewrap. If you are interested in purchasing a pendant, please feel free to contact me directly.

Pendants

Lion and Tiger pendants, oil and acrylic on exotic wood fragments, framed with silver-filled wire w

rap.

I've finally settled on a design for the pendants I've been working on, and here are a couple of the first examples - these are handpainted fine art miniatures on exotic hardwood fragments, with a silver-filled wire wrap.  Now to make more of these!

Jewelry design copyright L. Merchant

Evolution - Sneak Peek

A time comes, periodically, for an artist to put down the usual work and go in a completely different direction. It doesn't mean that the old work is finished, necessarily, but that for the work to improve new skills need to be learned.

I seem to do this over New Year's every year, and this year it happened again. I had an idea for a project, but lacked the skills to pull it off. I wanted to paint miniatures and make them into jewelry pieces. Painting small isn't really a problem for me, but what about making the actual jewelry fittings? What about the substrate, how could I make the piece unique and special? With a little help from my gallery friends (Thank you, you know who you are!) I learned a bit of metalworking, and a bit of woodworking.

These aren't done yet, and I haven't posted in a while because I wanted to improve on the idea first - but at least you can see where I'm going with this. Hopefully soon I'll have some awesome pieces to show. :)

Oil paintings in miniature, on repurposed hardwood offcuts, framed in copper and silver.