Okay, my Mom and I wouldn't feel complete without pulling out the beads and making something together. This time around, she brought the ingredients to whip up the microscope glass pendants. (Look under free classes at Art Chix Studios)
This had me thinking of pulling out my oil pastels and making some little abstract drawings for the pendants. So here they are, I'm so in love with them! I used my oil pastels & graphite on vellum, they are collages, with lots of layers. I love that you can see the drawings on both sides of the paper. Since the pendants are covered in glass on both sides, the light shines through and the images have a nice depth.
The top image is the entire necklace, here is the other side of the pendant.
This is the second pendant that I made. I should say we, because I did the drawing and my Mom put it together with the copper tape and soldered the silver color on there. So she did most of the work. I strung them with a hodge podge of beads in a 16 inch choker, the pendant is 2 inches long. Very modern.
The other side of the second pendant.
Those are very cool! They remind me of the pressed flower jewelry that was so very popular a few years back.
Posted by: janee | April 11, 2005 at 07:12 AM
Oh wow, Heather!!
I looove the red pendant (since magenta is my favourite colour it is very close to it ;-)
Looks like you both had a fantastic weekend!! Sooo neat! You are amazing!!
**sparkles*
Posted by: Tine | April 11, 2005 at 09:18 AM
i love this idea. the vertical format is great and it is so nice how you made your own designs with pastels on vellum. i like the red side best.
Posted by: beth | April 12, 2005 at 07:55 AM
Very cool! I wouldn't mind trying that one day!
Violette
Posted by: violette | April 12, 2005 at 01:08 PM