I did this painting for my husband for our anniversary.  Call me a hopeless romantic...just kidding.  My husband is sort of a gore fan, so I wanted to do something he would like to hang up, as well as displaying my love for him (thus giving him my heart, granted it's still in my hand).  It was done on clay board with oil paint.  

I had no idea that there was a sectiion for art beyond crafts.  I never even paged down on the home page to see everything.  I love it.  This is a couple of my recent completions.  I'm working on putting a show together that revolves around women and what we (society) view as beautiful.  This is the tragic beauty, Mata Hari, and an emotionally confusing painting of a geisha.  They are both done in oil.

I am trying to be conservative with money this x-mas, so I decided to make the gals in my family and my girlfriends brooches for their presents.  It's nice because each one reflects part of their personality and they are cheap, just a little time consuming.  I used wood that my brother-in-law cut for me (he goes to school for wood working and cut it for free for his grades).  As for paint I used good old acrylic, just watered down and in a lot of layers (other wise it dries too quickly and gets uneven and clumpy).  Then I sealed them with a high gloss sealant meant for painting.  I gorilla glued pins on the back of them (gorilla glue is the best for hold) and voila!  Hand painted brooches.

I hate computers.  This is now my 4th try to post this.  After 2 times just doing it wrong, the third time was ready to go and my internet kicked me out!!!  Making me crazy.  So anyway, here is my entry.  It is made out of screens for a kitchen/bathroom tap.  I used gorilla glue and a glue gun, patina and a pin.  I am sorry I don't have a step by step, but it was very unorganized getting to the finished product (trial and error).  So, hopefully this post will be successful and you will be looking at images below.  Enjoy.

days later...

Ok, I had to add this.  This pin is a little freyed on the edges, and kind of sticks to sweaters, so I think it works much better as a hat pin.  I actually wore it on a sweater, but my coat kept sticking to it.  So, here's a little honesty, doesn't work so well as a brooch, better as a hat pin.
I added another picture below.