Handmade Beaded art by Carter Watkins
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All of these pieces are available for purchase. All of these pieces were hand made by Carter Watkins himself.

This is my personal collection of beaded art pieces. I started beading because I wanted an interesting original art piece in my home. A conversation piece. Something you could stare at for a lifetime. The process is simple, repetitive, and zen like. The end result is complex three dimensional vibrant work of art. It takes a lot of time to complete a piece, each piece is an original, there will never be another one like it. You are buying the highest quality craftsmanship and unique design that will last forever. 2020 was a tough year personally and professionally buying a piece of art would mean a lot to me and it would allow me to make more work and fund other art related projects down the road, and help support my growing family.

-Carter

 

Cape Buffalo Atlas Moth and Night Blooming Cereus

Cape Buffalo Atlas Moth and Night Blooming Cereus

$10,000.00

The inspiration for this design comes from a couple sources, over a couple months, during a tumultuous global pandemic: A few months back my family and I piled into a rv and drove to Carlsbad New Mexico to have a memorial for my stepdad Joe. He died of cancer in April. In one of our family-bedside-conversations the week before he passed my sister asked him if there was anything he regretted not doing. Joe said that he always wished he’d gotten a tattoo like Steve McQueen’s in the movie Papillon. A butterfly tattoo on his chest. It was an unexpected answer, Joe didn’t have any tattoos. On our way to Carlsbad (Joe’s hometown) I stopped to deliver some commissioned skulls to a client in Midland and he gave me two cape buffalo skulls to use as canvases for my bead art. The first cape buffalo is a daytime scene with two butterflies (papillion) landing on an Aloe Vera bloom. The second cape buffalo is a night time scene- a large, lone atlas moth stretching its wings on a Night Blooming Cereus stalk, flanked by blooming and wilted flowers under a luminescent (literally glows in the dark) full moon.

Composition: Large Atlas moth surrounded by night blooming cereus flowers.

*This piece is for sale but is on display until Feb 2023. If you would like to purchase this piece please email me.*

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