Are you ready?! Third Eye Gypsy Auction Group New Work is LIVE!

Hello beautiful souls!

 Are you ready for the new art reveal that is LIVE in our Third Eye Gypsy facebook auction group?! These are all auction listings that will only be available for 3 days!

I have some awesome new work to drop on your eyeballs. We're feeling all of that great energy from the Lionsgate portal opening today on 8-8 with the lunar eclipse last night still radiating that full moon energy! Let the abundance flow!

Behold! It's like wearing mixed-media on your neck. Yep, these awesome tiny works of art are made with mixed-media supplies and then worked up into jewelry on gorgeous color splashed recycled sari silk ribbons with antiqued copper adjustable chain, lobster claw and swarovski crystal dangle.  The pendants are approx. 28-50mm(petal pendant) on 18-20" necklace cords. Let's take a closer look.

 Pretty sexy, right? Lots of sacred geometry, chakras, and labyrinth designs. Look at all of those lucious colors! 

Oooo some more of the above mentioned themes with a little sprinkling of Buddha. Remember the 4x6 original that matches the pendant? So awesome!!

Oh and one more necklace in this style. Why does this one get the spotlight? The truth is it didn't fit in the photo shot view ;) Pretty amazing though, huh?

 Oh and how about a little bit more masculine energy for these necklaces. I did some black outlining around these pendants and they just looked more like boy style jewelry(not that we discriminate) so I put them on some sweet black rubber tubing with some silver plated lobster claw and spring ring clasps. The pendants are 28mm on 20" necklaces.

Not really feeling the jewelry thing, but want some great designs and color for your space? Why not grab an original 4x6 mixed-media on watercolor paper in a shiny cello sleeve? 

Hop on over to the group so you don't miss out. See you there!

Love, light, and creativity,

xoxo Genea

First Friday August 2017 Kansas City, and New Work.

Hello beautiful souls,

We did our first, First Friday this year on August 4th and we were booked by the lovely, Leigh Liles. It was a blast! We got to set up right over by artist alley in the parking lot of Justrite rubber stamp & seal. 

 Here is a shot of our booth. The sun was pretty intense for the shot, but it was just perfect lighting for our booth. The lampwork beads on our jewelry shined so beautifully in the sun :)

Here's a close up so you can see a few more things. I really love how our display turned out. I had hand painted a few shirts awhile back and shared them on the Artistcellar design team for my blog post. It was exciting to get them out in  public view. I even sold the center shirt to my yoga instructor that taught a class I used to attend when I lived in Olathe, Kansas :) 

This was one of my favorite parts of my booth. I had gotten some old windows from my old job and it was the perfect display for our 3x3, 4x4, and 4x6 pieces!

I set up the booth while Christian hooped. 

 He doesn't realize I got these shots of him. He he ;)

 Our other friend's played with fire as soon as it got dark :) Here is Sarah seducing the flame.

Here is Scarlet whirling in her hoop.

So jumping backwards I wanted to make a few more pieces for First Friday so I did some 4x6 pieces. I  pulled out some  pieces I used to catch some extra ink spray as not to waste it and decided to play around with them. 

Here is the finished piece. ERMAGERD... it's SO PRETTY!  I was so pleased with how it turned out. I was excited about it, I HAD to create one of my shrink plastic pendants so I could make this awesome design into a necklace!

Oooo look at all of those layers even on such a small piece!

Look at how amazing it turned out!!

Here are both pieces together. I am even working on something even BIGGER in this style. I can't wait to show you all cause I am even incorporating one of my earlier mixed-media designs into the piece. I really love how I took this new style and tied it in with an older idea.

For the other piece I wanted to create something really masculine since the piece was already so dark. I had a layer of black paint from another stencil paint save(you can see the black paint on the middle left). I really loved layering different stencils from the Tibet Series. I am slightly obsessed with the Arabian Nights Series as well. I used one of the chunkier stencil designs for this piece and used a more thin intricate one for the purple Buddha piece, giving it a very feminine look.

So I know what your next question is. It's where can I get my hands on these beauties, right? Well... I will be making another post HERE tomorrow for the full release into my special Facebook Third Eye Gypsy Auction Art group! I will post the rest of the awesome art here tomorrow early afternoon when it will go up in my group and be up on auction for 3 DAYS ONLY! So you will want to get hot on it if you want to take some of these babies home ;)

On that note I am going to wander off to my art table for a little bit until I can't keep my eyes open any longer. See you all tomorrow for the release!

Love, light, and creativity,

xoxo Genea

M.I.A.- Inspired by everything

Hello friends!

Yep, I've been missing in action again. It's been hard getting into a rhythm since I got home for sure. You don't realize how much your partner does until you aren't around them. I am the dog care giver, chef, artist, house cleaner, grocery buyer, going to train at the gym myself goer, and the list goes on. It sure does get tired doing EVERYTHING!  So I thought you might like to see what I've been up to. I clicked some pics of my artsy ramblings.

 

So you know as artists we are inspired by things we see, right? Well a little while back I was featured in this treasury. Here was the treasury list. Here is the link to it "lampwork headpins".

So when I first began lampworking there was a technique that people were doing where they rolled their beads in baking soda to give them a stone like look. Here is a really pretty example bead of that effect done by Lavender Creek.

 

So as you can see from the above photo the glass headpins with their stony look reminded me of this style so randomly on my walk home from the grocery store I had the idea for these beads below.

Sweet huh?! I did just a few beads to try out the technique as I only tried it once and bombed hard while first making beads. I used a transparent glass on my hot head and kept having the bubbles surface everywhere. Obviously I am much more skilled now after almost 8 years of lampworking. I realized that through this technique it also gives lampwork beads the look of sand cast African Krobo beads.

These beads are made by grinding up glass bottles. You take the glass and put it into molds and fire it in a clay kiln. Here is a wonderful link on Ebay that shows the steps involved in making these beads along with a listing . The photo above is from one of my fav African trade bead shops on Etsy, Soul of Somanya.

 

I was also inspired to create these charms using paint chips. I don't know if you've seen a bagillion things made with paint chips on Pintrest.  I was also looking at other things on Pintrest with mom that were these paintings done with water colors and white out pens. I don't know the exact artist for them, but somehow the idea seeped into my head to put both together. I whipped together these funky earrings made out of paint chips and white out pen. He he. I think I could definitely refine this idea, but meh I move onto things so quickly ;)

While my friend Holly was in town visiting Portland, we hit up a knitting shop called Twisted. In their shop they had finger print jewelry. It's hard to tell that this is a print to me, but they just had some simple pmc clay prints done on display. After being in KC with mom and being on Pintrest I saw more. I guess that idea seeped into my head as well.

 

So my idea was a little different. Since it was before valentines day I had the idea to make finger print hearts with my index finger print and the index finger print of my family members :D On the left you can see my dads and my print, and on the right you see my moms and my print. Unfortunately after shrinking it down you can't really see the print texture with the colored ink. If you click on the larger image of the photo you can see it better. I got a black ink pad to see if that works better since the contrast would be higher maybe it will work. *shrug*

 

You may have seen this pic of my mom's painting she made for me for Christmas on facebook. I have been posting pics on there lots with my phone. It's just so darn easy so I do it often!  So anyways here is a quick shot of it. This painting is just above my computer screen so I look at it often. So as I said above I am always inspired by things I see. I tried to make mom's painting into a heart design, but failed miserably. I had wanted to make her one for Valentines day. 

 

I didn't get discouraged though. I went back again and decided maybe a lentil design of her painting would translate better. So here is the bead! Wow it sure is hard to make such an intricate 2D image into a 3D bead! I mean I'm sure I could go back and try some more things with opaques and stringers, but I really love the rich colors of transparents so I tried this first. Some of the opaque glasses have chemical reactions with colors, so if I did this design in opaques it would end up pretty different, that and our opaques aren't as vivid in glass as the paints. The eggplant color especially.

 

So since the heart idea didn't turn out I just made it into a pendant for mom so she could wear it. You can do this same pendant design if you follow my tutorial on my left side bar of my blog <<<<<<.

I had the extreme pleasure of going to my friend Sam's studio. Sam is actually a woman and Sam isn't really her name. She has a really pretty name, but goes by Sam. Not sure why, but anyways ;) Mom and I got to visit her magical studio on Friday. Wow did she have just about everything you would need to create just about anything! Unfortunately I couldn't convince Sam to let me photograph her studio or her work, but I will try again next time I visit. It's such a magical place and she doesn't get online or sell her work anywhere so you can image how special it is to get an invite into her studio to play!

 

Here is what I created with some Thompson enamels and these vintage oxides.  I got a crash course in enameling on copper. Sam gave me this pre-treated white oval to play with. I dusted on some thompson enamels on the base and painted on top of it with the Oxides. It got muddy in a few places, but I had NO idea what I was doing and it was pretty fun! ;)

 

Here is a close-up of the Oxides I used. Sam got this killer deal on this whole tool thingy full of these amazing vials!She gave me the entire stash you see in the box above! :D

I also figured out some cool things to do with my empty eoilette containers. Eoilettes are the little colored rivet thingies you use in scrap booking. I use them for the hole in my bead tags. I just got some new frit refills and the samples fit perfectly in these containers! I even removed the sticker from the bag and it first perfectly on the top of the container! Sweet huh? Yay for re-using!

 

Incase you were curious. I got the frit from Val Cox. You can buy her Raku frit here. 

Well if you made it to the bottom without dying you did pretty well! Lol that's what happens with I don't blog in forever! 

Well thanks for stopping by! See you soon!

xo Genea

Some of my FUNKIEST most CREATIVE designs yet!

Hello friends!

Ok so after it taking me almost the ENTIRE day to get going, here we are with some late evening listings! I am really proud of the creativity of these designs and hope you enjoy them as much as I do!

 

"Crying Spiral Eye"- This ring was SO much fun to make! The center eye is made from shrink plastic and hand drawn by me. The spiral eye is the same eye I doodle with my signature. I gave it a glass droplet tear to be a "crying eye" which was one of my favorite doodles in highschool.  I just LOVE this design!

 

"Green Peace"- a wonderful way to make your peaceful statement. In gorgeous Bullseye odd lot glass. Violet purple and glittery green! Adjustable for any finger size!

 

"Space Strider"- a wonderful mix of my lampwork beads, and mixed-media materials of: leather, rubber, lucite, enameled chain and fibers! Inspired by the Peter Max image below(one of my favorite artists!).

 

"Setting Sun"- my WING DINGS as wonderful little stitch markers! Super big and bright to be seen among your stitches for knit and crochet!

 

"Green People"- Well it didn't get picked for Lark's 500 ring series book, but it sure is AMAZING! This ring is not only made from recycled paper, but it's "green" theme is even accented with all sorts of wonderful shades of green. What makes it so remarkable? Oh I dunno, the fact that it's REVERSIBLE! The droplet dangle even hangs properly no matter which side you wear! 

 

Both sides worn.

Well since I piddled around all day long I am almost late for my work out with Ricky! So I better get movin'!

Have a super fantastic weekend and thanks for stopping by!!

xo Genea