Woodsy Green is a new reverse painted chandelier with green and earth tone colors. It's a very lavishly layered painting that features grasses and ferns and palm fronds and a warm gold colored bottom. The flowers that are interspersed with the greens are accent colors. White daisies, columbine flowers, Texas blue bells, sage, Indian paint [...]
Just released a new Geisha reverse painted chandelier in my Honolulu Beauties Series. This is a 24" diameter piece and features one 'Geisha' face. My Honolulu Beauties are inspired by the picture brides that went to Hawaii in the early 1900s. They left everything they knew behind in their homelands—their family, their foods, their climate [...]
This past weekend was very hot at the annul Summer Danville Fine Arts Faire but I'm proud to say that it was still a great success. Despite 108 degree weather on Saturday and slightly cooler weather—but still hot—on Sunday I sold several significant pieces. The reverse painted chandelier here was titled Honolulu Beauties—a lovely geisha [...]
Just wanted to share another view of my newest abstract, reverse painted chandelier that is titled Circles of Eternity. I am trying to decide if I will take this piece (over an abstract piece that will be finished today) down to my glass art gallery in Santa Monica, California. The decision must be made by [...]
One of my newest over-sized watercolors, Glowing Ti Leaves of the Hawaiian Islands (along with my reverse painted chandelier titled June Garden Bloom) was also included in the juried art show at Woodbridge by Mondavi Winery in May. This is my current favorite tropical flower painting. The flowers for this piece were seen on Kauai [...]
In May, my reverse painted chandelier titled June Garden Bloom won a special Judges Award at the Woodbridge by Mondavi Winery art show which was organized by the Lodi Community Arts Center. It was a fabulous event and the turn out for the gala reception had a couple hundred people, many of which were dressed [...]
I really need to put pictures of this 28" Vineyard Romance painted chandelier on my website. My mother is holding the glass up to the sun so that the artistry of the complete piece can be seen. This lovely grape themed reverse painted chandelier has Tuscan colors with accents of soft violets, like summer Napa [...]
Sedona Vortex was born from an idea that's been floating around in my mind for several years. My idea was to take alternating sections of flowers and color blocks and have them swirl in the glass. This is an original concept for my reverse painted glass chandeliers. It is a fusion of my abstract and [...]
This has been a very creative and challenging Spring season. In the past several months I've had major creative break throughs in my abstract painted chandelier styles. As a professional artist, it's important to me to have my own signature painting styles and that's something that I've been developing through the years. Successful artists like [...]
Bahama Macaw is a lovely example of my tropical, reverse painted glass chandeliers. Though I have been creating and painting these rare and exciting chandeliers for several years, part of what is most inspiring for me is that each new painted chandelier idea has the potential to be so different from the last even within [...]
Warning: this is an anti-mini painting...contrary to the name of my painting blog which has chronicled my Mini Master island paintings since 2006, both here and on my former Blogger blog. This is the next step. The canvas is up and is ready to be primed. Pinning the canvas to the wall was a two-person [...]
There were thousands of reverse painted lamps done during the Victorian era. This was once a very popular art form. These hand painted lamps bring charm and ambiance into a room. Their soft light adds warmth. From an artistic point of view, a reverse painted lamp will add color and surprise. People who [...]
