Original Art - Stone

It's Autumn, and it's time for celebrating. If you like pumpkin spice, it's a Pumpkin Spice Parade, and if you don't, it's an Anti-Pumpkin Spice Parade. A dragon, a unicorn, a large deer, two faeries and an elven knight troop across an autumny stone. The participants are decked with gems - amethyst, peridot, yellow and orange sapphires, tigereye, marcasite and ruby. This piece is framed to an inside edge size of 8x12 inches in a bronze frame.

I've only seen a grizzly bear in the wild one time, and luckily there was a river between me and it, and it wasn't all that interested in silly humans. Here is a grizzly bear that is a little more interested in human things. He's got a touch of the mythical about him, and I'm not entirely sure that he doesn't talk. Maybe he'll tell you a parable or fable, or maybe he is part of one.

Bear Arrow is acrylic on a modern hand knapped jasper arrowhead with turquoise and tigereye accents. He's framed in a deep bronzed wooden frame which measures 5x7 inches on the inside edge. If you would like a bit of bear magic to come your way, here is your chance!

Cherry Blossom Unicorn - This original is very small. It's a portrait of a unicorn painted on fireworks obsidian, a black volcanic glass found in Mexico. To me, the stone looks like its filled with little cherry blossoms, and an alternate name for this stone is flower obsidian. I carried the theme of pink and black through, decking the unicorn with black and a branch of cherry blossoms as well as two faceted pink tourmalines. The third accent stone is a garnet cabochon, which matches the cherrywood colored resin frame. The frame measures 4x6 inches on the inside edge.

This original, Poppy Unicorn, is very much carousel horse inspired. A white unicorn bedecked with poppies proudly poses on a slice of orange and green unakite. The color in the stone is reminiscent of poppies, and so that is what the unicorn got as a decoration. The accent pieces are turquoise and chrysocolla. Theresa painted this piece as something calming to help my creative mojo along in difficult times. The frame is golden, like anything from a carousel might be. It measures 5x7 inches on the inside edge of the frame.

This original is painted on a mother of pearl clam shell. This iridescent background creates a frothy home for some sea horses of the legendary kind. They're inspired both by mythology and by carousels. If you're curious, my all time favorite carousel sea horse of this type rides the 1905 Kit Carson County Carousel in Burlington, Colorado near the Kansas border. It's in original factory paint and is a sight to behold. I've been lucky enough to ride it!

In this piece, three differently colored sea horses cavort. Each has real jewels matching their tail colors- sapphires, amethysts, and emerald with a peridot. I've titled it Sea Jewels. Are the jewels the horses or the gems they carry? I think it's both. The shell is one I got at a shop in Ocean Beach in San Diego during San Diego Comic Con a few years ago. It's been waiting to be painted on since then. The frame, which measures 10x12 inches on the inside edge, was chosen because it resembles kelp patterns or looks like it's metal corroded in the sea. The upper mat is velvet with a foliage pattern which I also thought resembled kelp. The shell is a little hard to photograph because of the curvature, but Barry did his best.

This is a Spring Faery in Renaissance inspired attire, surrounded by a little flock of sparrows. She's painted on stone with a peridot accent. The inside edge of the frame is 9x11 inches, but the Renaissance style frame is substantial, measuring almost 16" x 18" on the outside. She has a little glint in her eyes that suggests that she's more of a troublemaker than you might think, in spite of all the roses and sparrows.

White Dragon Portrait might hang on the wall like one of those portraits of a parent, or grandparent, or maybe the bank president! He's small, but mighty, in white shaded in blue with a Moonstone dangling, clutched in his teeth!

Painted in acrylic on agate, triple matted and in a frame with a 5"x7" opening.