Showing posts with label jewelry challenges. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewelry challenges. Show all posts

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

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Dry Gulch Challenge June 16 - Pretty in pinks

I love a challenge.  This one, sponsored by Dry Gulch Beads, features a particularly pretty, soft palette.   It really inspired me to look through my bead and fiber stash and find a nice soup to mix together.  Here is what I created.



And here is the color palette.  I hit most of the colors though might be difficult to see in this shot.



For more info on the challenge (deadline is June 30 and involves prizes), go here.