Hit Record Earrings by Eye Pop Art

Hit Record Earrings - "Flower and Blue Sky"

 New from Eye Pop Art:  Hit Record Earrings with hand painted, original psychedelic designs! 

Hit Record Earrings - "Bohemian Style"

These earrings are handmade from triangle-shaped pieces of recycled vinyl records.

These are pieces that are left over when I cut up records to make Roman Record Cuffs. Over the years I've saved every scrap, and now I'm proud to introduce a new line of eye-popping jewelry for all the Eye Pop Art fans!

Each piece is hand painted by me using acrylic paints in light washes of bright and pastel colors. Each painted pair is one-of-a-kind - there will never be another pair exactly like it!

(They are painted on one side only, and the back of each piece is just the solid black vinyl record. The best of both worlds!)

Hit Record Earrings - "Carnival"

Each design is outlined with a layer of iridescent silver which gives it a unique sparkly glint when viewed from different angles and in different lighting.

The dramatic yet incredibly lightweight painted record "beads" vary from 1" - 1.75" in length, and from 2" to 3" wide at the widest point. The larger styles are $32 each and the smaller ones are $25.

They are paired with high quality sterling silver jump rings and sterling silver ear wires. All edges have been carefully sanded and smoothed for your comfort.

Hit Record Earrings - "Constantinople"

Hit Record Earrings in Pink and Purple

Hit Record Earrings in Red and White

Hit Record Earrings in Red White and Blue

Hit Record Earrings - "Red Windmill"

Hit Record Earrings - "Green Starflower"

Hit Record Earrings - "Little Sunset"

A great gift for a DJ, record collector, musician, or anyone who appreciates eco-friendly fashion!

Let the music live on with Hit Record Earrings.

In addition, I have several pairs of earrings available from Trillium Artisans, including Basic Black and a couple of painted and even wire-wrapped styles The painted earrings in the Trillium shop are actually made from pre-painted records that started out as other items and then were cut up into smaller pieces (as opposed to scrap pieces that were individually hand-painted for the purpose of making earrings.)

I wear the black ones ALL THE TIME!  They also go great with my record cuffs.

(These last two photos were taken by, and modeled by, Lee Meredith.)

I hope you'll check out my earrings if you're looking for something truly different in the jewelry department - original, wearable, eco-friendly art that nobody else has!

Black Light Groove, Part Three: Muralicious

As promised, here are some more photos of my outrageous black light mandalas!

All of these are painted on the walls and ceiling of the master bedroom in my house, which is my studio and office too.

This one was designed to frame a mirror.

The ceiling is my favorite:




Here's another one of the walls (this design is actually painted in reds and oranges and black:

This one is on the wall above my computer desk:


Many thanks to Kaila Haas for the great photos!

Black Light Groove, Part Two: Ultraviolet Turntable Art

Say hello to groovy black light mandala #2, Ultraviolet!



Work in progress:
In natural light:


In natural light, and in black light:

(Black light photos by Kaila Haas.)


These last two photos show you a little sneak peek at some of the amazing fluorescent murals I've painted on the walls. I have more great photos of the murals and will share them in another post!

Black Light Groove, Part One: Radioactive Turntable Art

Hi! Welcome to my world.

I've been painting mandalas on vinyl records since 1997.

In the many years before I had any such thing as a digital camera, a blog, a facebook page, and all that good stuff, I was never able to really share my art with the world.

Since entering this modern age, I've shared a-plenty. BUT...I had a little secret...a little card up my sleeve. You see, many of my paintings glow in the dark, and/or glow under black light. But I could never show you what that looked like. Even when my mural-filled bedroom/studio was on HGTV, they never showed the hidden underlying fact that the entire room glows in the dark. You may like my work, but you really haven't seen it until you've seen it under a black light.

And now, finally, at long last, I have pictures of my work in black light!!!

I'm so excited about this. It is really great that after all this time, my own work can still surprise and delight me. I look at my glowing art every night, but I have never been able to look at a photo of it before, and being able to share these photos makes me feel like I've just created all of this work all over again. You know, that satisfying feeling of having created something new and beautiful.

These black light photos were taken by my friend Kaila Haas, who patiently set up her killer tripod in about 100 different configurations and waited approximately 16 seconds for each exposure. It was a long but fascinating series of 16-second intervals, and the results are fantastic!


This green and blue piece is called Radioactive and it is one of two mandalas I created for a custom order on Etsy. The awesome buyer (I love her for having the great idea that set all of this into motion!) requested Turntable Art to give to her husband, a DJ and promoter, as an anniversary gift. She asked, "Do you work with black light reactive paint at all? My husband is a DJ, psytrance being his favorite genre, and he decorates with black lights a LOT. Your designs would look awesome under black lights."

Well, of course I have been using black light paints and phosphorescent medium for ages and it's all over my bedroom/studio as well as on murals in our basement, and on several guitars, records, and other things that I've painted over the years. But I've never really promoted this aspect of my work, mainly because I didn't have any means to show it off (other than inviting people to come over to my house and check it out at night, which is not always a feasible plan!).

But once I got started on the order I knew that I'd have to find a way to get photos of these babies, because they are definitely going to be a new product line for Eye Pop Art!

Here are some photos of the work in progress:





And the finished product under natural light:



Side by side, the same item in natural light and in black light:




This last photo shows a little sneak peek of the OTHER record, which is called Ultraviolet. I will tell you more about that one in my next post.

Hope you've enjoyed this little glimpse into my secret black light world...there's lots more to come!

The Long Lost Guitar Photos from Art Hop 2006

I just wanted to post some pictures from the first year that I did the Alberta Art Hop, which was in 2006. This annual event is going on today, and lots of my crafty friends are there, but for the first time in four years, I am not participating! Instead, I am getting ready to go bask in the sun with an icy Coke and a good book, and later we'll be heading over to my parents' house for a BBQ with my Aunt Janet and Uncle Randy, who are visiting from Phoenix. They came over last night to see the house (which Janet had previously seen when she unexpectedly caught my episode of "Look What I Did" on HGTV). We ate chocolate cake.

Anyway, the reason I am posting these pictures is because they are from a roll of film that Suzie shot up when she was hanging out with me at the Art Hop that day in May '06, which she then lost and didn't get developed until nearly three years later! She had them put on CD and here they are, at long last. This is very cool to me because, you see, I actually sold that painted child's guitar that day, and had absolutely no pictures of it. So it is super exciting to finally see it again. I really liked that one! I hope that the little girl who got it is still enjoying it!

I'd love to paint more guitars. If you are interested in getting a custom psychedelic paint job done on your guitar, please contact me!

Here are Janet and Randy:

Here they are with my mom and dad:

And here is my cat! Hello, Johnny Teacup:

Off to enjoy the sunshine!