Picasso Buckle by Winston

"Everything you can imagine is real. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~ Pablo Picasso 

As a 50th year birthday gift to his wonderful better half Kelly, Winston hand carved and made this one of a kind belt buckle. In honor of the great Artist Picasso.

The buckle is hand carved and made of thirteen different pieces of precious stones including mother of pearl, picasso marble, turquiose and multiple colored jem stones. This original by Winston is one of a kind and here is a step by step process on how the artist put the beautiful buckle together.

Finally the finished piece is mounted into

a handmade silver picture frame.

The 'Ace Rider' Belt Buckle

The 'Ace Rider' buckle is the first in a new series of hand fabricated buckles from Winstonbuckles.com that will have a total of 10 made when finished. Each buckle is carved with a gold lip mother of pearl skull of a different look but each having a bullet hole through the head and out the back of the buckle. The eyes are glass taxidermy style with the jaw being carved separate and engulfed in hand fabricated sterling silver flames from bottom to top. Each work Winston has created over his 32 year career has been made as a one off. There is no possible way to duplicate any of his work into what would be considered true stone lithographs or copies. This in it self is why the buckles have gone from 880.00 cost items just a few years ago to $3000.00 to $7000.00 works today in down town New York City. Each buckle will have a poem scribed on its back side regarding his thoughts of the Vet's from the United States. It reads as follows:

'ACE RIDER' Fighting for our freedom near and far, so many there are. So long ago and yet still today, how many more will have gone away. Lost souls on many a battle field, each warring a different units shield. It's with the Ace of Spades we ride, always in remembrance of those who died.

Winston's works can be found on his web site at winstonbuckles.com and you can even call him on his personal phone from the same web site.

Belt Buckle, Saber Tooth Tiger by Winston

This is one of Winston's latest creations a belt buckle Hand carved from Picasso Marble this 4 inch belt buckle of a Saber Tooth tiger has a mouth full of mother of pearl carved teeth with a curled rodenite tongue and glass eye.  Winstonbuckles.com is the place to go for one of kind hand made shell, rock and gem stone buckles as well as rare hand carved necklaces made by the artist, Winston.   In his 32 years of carving he has created works for people all over the world and today is building a 'Scarpetta' Crest buckle for Patricia Cornwell to ware on her latest novel cover coming out in October of '08'.  Each work is hand fabricated and not a casting in either the stone works or the metals that surround them.  Most of the jewelry Winston creates is sold in New York from the J.W. Cooper store at the Time Warner Building on Columbus Circle.

Nightmare Buckle

This is a new piece carved by Winston 4-21-2008. I received the email and immediately recognized the image from the movie Nightmare before Christmas. I don't know the dimensions on this buckle, come to think of it I don't even know if it's a belt buckle. It could be one of Winston's custom requests hand made for a customer who likes the movie "A nightmare before Christmas".

It almost looks like the silver work around the art has not been finished. That's just my guess, "I'm his son and I know his work well" If you would like to you can leave a comment for Winston. He checks this new blog allot because we have all of his new work published at this blog first. Always more to come...

check out Winston's Web Site A www.winstonbuckles.com

Black Panther Belt Buckle

This is one of Winston's latest belt buckles. It is carved by hand useing 4 differnt stones. Can you guess what they are? Me neither I was planning on speaking to Winston today about this latest Black Panther Buckle but it got to late to call.

I will add the description of the stones soon. I'm sure Winston would want you to know what this one of a kind buckle is made of.

You can contact Winston by going to his website www.winstonbuckles.com