Sunday, August 28, 2016

ABS Challenge August - Dressing up your Poly Clay Pendants

I like funky.  A lot.  If something has a bit of a shabby look to it, I'm in.  That doesn't mean I don't like to dress things up sometimes.

This month I was checking out the Art Bead Scene (ABS) monthly challenge and it inspired me to weave a little bead stitching into one of my pendants.  While the palette in my pendant is quite a bit brighter than the Paul Klee's (shown below), I immediately saw the color connection with his.

His pendant is more abstract than mine yet just looking at Klee's rendering, I instantly knew he was capturing a nature scene.  And, I just as instantly thought of my pendant.  Mine is abstract too but in a much more diffused way.  My lines are softer because in my mind's eye, I saw the flowers in a rather unkept garden spilling over themselves versus in a park.

Because I liked the lines in his painting, I decided to add some of my own straight,dotted, and V shapes by stitching a couple rows of beads and adding "flowers."  AND I did so because I scored a huge stock of sequins and therefore every embellishment requires the use of sequins until I bore myself to death with the use of them!!

Anyway, here are pictures of the pendant and the necklace I made from it.  Also pictured below is the other side of this double sided pendant.  I only entered my pendant in the challenge as I was not sure I could use the same piece in both the bead and the jewelry entries.


 And here is the Paul Klee painting.

And here is the necklace.

 And here is the other side of the pendant.


Here is the link to the rest of the entries.  Go check them out.  Art Bead Scene blog

6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous necklace ~ your painted polymer pendant is so beautiful!! It kinda looks like it's made of wood, very nice texture, love it!!

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  2. Thanks Laura. was looking at your blog site. Gorgeous creations!

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  3. Very pretty pendant. Thanks for posting it
    Mona

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  4. Beautiful pendant and I really like the layered addition.

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  5. This is such a fun piece! Great job pulling all the colors together and adding the rows of color on the pendant! Love both the pendant and the necklace!

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  6. What a nice use of colour, your pendant is different and intrigueing its great!
    Jackie

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