Vangi Cathcart "Frog & Lily Pad" card 1-16-13

Frog & Lily Pad card

Original Watercolor card

$4

          Vangi Cathcart has created with enchanting scene with a gestalt frog, just a touch of moving water and a sweet pond waterlily.  Perhaps Spring will come after all bringing promises of love and merriment!  Wake up and sing, you Spring Peepers!

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Jerry Fowler "Blue Frosted Bowl" 1-15-13

"Blue Frosted Bowl"

Jerry Fowler

~ 5 3/4" x 3", Ceramic

$12

          Perfect for soup or oatmeal on a winter day -- or maybe for snow ice cream!  Do you think we'll have any snow this year?  Jerry Fowler made the bluest of blue bowl, perfect and inviting you to hold and warm your hands as you eat.

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On a Monday

in this quiet
darkening
afternoon
birds and butterflies
that seemed like paintings
are flying about

not out the door
in the store
where all things
come to life at night
maybe

Amanda Egdorf-Sand "Porcelain Earrings"1-13-13

"Porcelain Earrings"

Amanda Egdorf-Sand

Porcelain Ceramic, ~ 2" long

          Amanda has brought in some new clay jewelry.  These are more delicate as they are made from the finest of clays, porcelain.  It's a different look, much softer than the earthy clay she often uses.  I love the white and blue dips and dapples on these earrings.

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Brooks "Wall Piggie" 1-12-13

"Wall Piggie"

by Brooks

~12" x 6", wood, paint & medium, found objects, wool, fabric

$75

          The artist Brooks, seems as colorful and fun as her work.  This cheerful fringed piggie sports a hand woven hairdo and tail.  She is shaped from wood and ever-so stylish in her coat of many colors.  She loves to join a towering flamingo, a wooly sheep and a couple of smaller farm animals as they party hearty at the Joyful Jewel after hours.

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Marrianna Osolin-Putnam "Man in the Moon" 1-11-13

"Man in the Moon"

Marrianna Osolin-Putnam

9" x 12" Acrylic on Canvas, $20

          This cheerful, colorful fellow greets you with an offering of flowers, feathers and pure joy.  Do we need a lesson in global unity?  It seems that Marrianna can use every color there is in a painting and show you how they can get along, enhancing and supporting each other to their full potential!  Although this painting has a few less colors in quantity than some, you hardly notice that the harmonious two major colors are primary -- and opposite on the color wheel.

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Janice Rieves "Spiral Table" 1-10-13

"Spiral Table"

Janice Rieves

31"H, 24"Diameter, Glass Tile, Iron, Grout

$550

          This colorful-sturdy table sits among the other exceptional art pieces that Janice brought in for her January Featured Artist area at the Joyful Jewel.  It commands attention both with it's sturdiness and it's sheer beauty.  With a table like this in your home, it seems there is even more than that you would be awestruck  as you pass it, which of course you would be.  But also you would never be bored.   There would always be something calling you to swirl, to center your consciousness, and then to take it spiraling out into all those fractal directions!

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