Work In Progress

Butterfly Necklace

My butterfly necklace is starting to take shape. 

See the sketch for this necklace in one of my older posts.

I decided to make this focal piece two-sided, which quite a challenge, I have to admit. 

The picture above shows the faux cloisonne black side of the butterfly, and there will be a red and orange side created with foil and inks like in these pendants.

I still need to shape all the connections and put the wings and the body of the butterfly together.  It all looks good so far, but there are too many points at which things can go wrong.  I think, this is the most challenging piece I ever made. 

Work in Progress

Butterfly Necklace

Here is the sketch for the necklace I am working on right now. 

This is the focal part.  It will be 5.5" at the widest point, made of polymer clay and resin.  There will be lots of wire details, both on the surface and outside of the wings.  I have not decided about the rest of the necklace yet.  It has to be bold to match the size of the focal part, yet kind of discrete, because the butterfly has to be the center of attention.  I think, I will have to make the butterfly first, and then figure out about the rest of the necklace.

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Scarlet Sails, Day 6

Final version of the wire work:



And now with color:

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Scarlet Sails, Day 5

The wire work on my commissioned wall piece is almost done. I need to decide whether to have the sun behind the ship or not. I had it on my sketch, but then my customer said that it may interfere with the ship, which is the most important element of the composition. He left the final decision up to me.

Right now I stopped at the moment when everything is done, except the sun. I formed the wire pieces for it and took a picture with them in place, but they are not attached. I can still remove the sun without any trace.

Note to Alan: Alan, I still cannot contact you by e-mail, but I've got your message. No sun.

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Scarlet Sails, Day 3