December 12, 2006
holy crap I'm making jewelry! (Shameless self-promotion alert)
I've been thinking for a while that it might be interesting to make jewelry, and I've gotten even more inspired by some friends' creative successes, like Made With Molecules and Glitterlimes, to name a few. What seemed to keep stumping me, however, was trying to figure out how to incorporate my drawing into jewelry. I am in the process of working out where my art career is going, but I know that drawing has to be the key element in whatever I make. It was only recently that an idea started forming that I thought might work, and once I tried it out, everything has just been falling into place.
So, in the last few weeks, I've made a series of sterling silver and glass pendants, 10 in all, that contain little illustrations of various animals (of course!) with their latin and common names.
See some samples!
Note: these images are larger-than-life: the pendants are actually about 1 inch high and 3/4 in wide.
Great Indian hornbill:
Black-crowned night heron, with pencil for scale:
Axolotl (this picture is actually of a prototype, but you get the idea):
Here's some other designs, waiting to be mounted --
american crow, plumed basilisk, emperor nautilus, walrus, european honeybee:
And, to be finished tomorrow, spectacled flying fox and long-tailed macaque. Woo!
So the timing of this whole venture ended up being a little strange -- I ordered some supplies, thinking it would take a while for them to get to me and for me to make the jewelry, but then everything arrived really quickly and is coming together really quickly too. It's just a little too late to really get them out to holiday fairs or to jump on the whole hey-guys-buy-my-cool-stuff-for-people-as-holiday-gifts bandwagon. But I'm really excited about it, and wanted to share, and also to let you all know that I'm about to place an order for a bunch of supplies, so like let me know if you might be interested in one!
Posted by tammy at December 12, 2006 7:34 PM