Decorated music box...inside

Here is the inside of the music box. You can see the dancer and the box does play a tune.
There are tow female witnesses to her dancing and gold bottles are the treasure in the box.

Decorated music box front

Decorated music box

I had this and some of the other things shown on this site at a local art show the other night.

People seemed to like this decorated music box All the decorations were done by me by hand.

I will show different views of it here. This is the top.

small decorated bottle view 2

Here is another view of the small decorated bottle. There ae 4 sides in total.

Small decorated bottle

Here is a small decorated bottle. Both bottles have vintage pictures and vintage beads on them.

Decorated bottle side 3

Decorated bottle side 2

Decorated bottle 1

I thought I would try to make a couple decorated bottles. This one has three sides.
Click on pictures to enlarge.

Cat Dancing

Here is the smaller wooden cat and a cat dancing with it.

Cat and Fish

I found two wooden decorated cats in two sizes at a yard sale and thought that they would make a nice pair of assemblages.

Hubcap baby

While looking around at yard sales I found a very unusual hubcap and immediately thought about adding a doll to it. At another yard sale I found a small decorated mirror which happened to fit over the center of the hub cap. The hardware store yielded the metal stips at the bottm. I had this piece in a local art show and got a lot of comments on it. People seemed to be intrigued with it!

NEW ART AT LAST !

I have not posted in a long time as I could not get my camera to download. A couple people looked at it and no one could figer out why it would not work. I was being streesed out, thinking I would have to buy a new camera. then someone suggested that it was the connector that goes from the camera to the computer. WOW! That was the answer! I am so happy it is now working and I can now post my new art!

REQUIEM

Here is the latest assemblage. It mostly "made itself' as I found all the pieces in one stop at a thrift store...except for the finials which I already had.

Most interesting, especially since it was made so close to the "Day of the Dead".

Altered Book: "OHara"

I was inspired by an artist I saw on the internet recently and ended up exchanging emails. I wanted to give a big '"Thank you" for his work, so decided to make him an altered book.

I ended up posting the 3rd picture twice..ooops... The central image of this picture was with permission from Tom O'Hara, who is the artist that the book was made for.

( www.artistohara.com)

Sunrise

I was playing around with chrome paint and came up with this idea of a sun rising as you

"unzip" the world. So a made a zipper openng to reveal the sunrise. I made small squares painted chrome to illustrate "mountains." Everything except the sun is chrome painted. What fun!

This collage is about three time periods in which there was big unrest and "revolution".The time periods represented are:

the 1700's...the American revolution, the 1930-40's the second world war and the rise of the Nazi's, (there is a Nazi sign at the bottom left of the baby picture) , and the recent Chinese unrest.

memory collage series

More in the memory collage series

Memory collage series

Here is more in the memory collage series.

Memory collage series

I started making a "memory collage series" I thought it would be an interesting project. I take vintage photos and make collages out tof them. My idea is maybe offer this as an art service to people. Take their vintage or loved photos and make collages out of them

Sentinel

1 I was lucky enough to find a bunch of dolls at a yard sale recently.
Naturally I got inspired to make some art!
Ths is the result
Doesn't look at all like the doll it came from!
( this is being added Sept. 28,2009.) Problem...I decided to show this piece at a recent art show and in transporting it, the "septer" got broken off and so far I have not found it. I'm so sad about this as I really liked it with the "septer".