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ABS July Challenge – Little Mermaid’s Necklace

27 Sun Jul 2014

Posted by fulgorine in Art Bead Scene, Challenge, My work

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amphora, art bead, bead, blue, foam, JUL ABS, mother of pearl, necklace, polymer clay, ribbon, sea, The Little Mermaid

This month’s ABS inspiration painting is “The Little Mermaid” by Edmund Dulac. The problem that I had was that I knew exactly what I wanted to make…

The Little Mermaid painting

The Little Mermaid, 1911 by Edmund Dulac
Pencil, pen, black ink and watercolour with scratching out on paper, 30.8 x 25.2 cm

I wanted to use my polymer clay “Oceanic Artefact” pendant, on an organic ruffled ribbon, ENCRUSTED with shells and pearls, perhaps with a hidden vial of magic liquid.

hollow bronze polymer clay pendant

The problem was that it took me 3 weeks to get into town to buy the ribbon I needed… and then I couldn’t find my shell beads… but I couldn’t think of another design because I KNEW what I wanted to make! When I finally did get the ribbon, it didn’t ruffle like I wanted so I sewed up the edge with pale blue seed beads. Then it wasn’t as organic as I wanted, and the blue was too dark since now it was double. So I put some white glass beads inside the ribbon and by that time it didn’t really go with the pendant anymore.

blue ribbon necklace

Instead I used my little faux mother of pearl Amphora bead (which was going to have been the supporting hidden vial of liquid) as the focal.

mermaid necklace

The resulting necklace is quite pretty and sea foamy, but it is a bit more Disney Princess than I was aiming for. What I had in mind was a much more complex coral reef complete with sharp rocks and stinging anemones as a reminder of the pain in the original story. But now the time is up.

sea foam necklace

I suppose disappointment is also part of the story.

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ABS June Challenge

16 Sun Jun 2013

Posted by fulgorine in Art Bead Scene, Challenge, My work

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bead, faux ceramic, freeform peyote, landscape, mountain, polymer clay, ruffle, sea, seed bead

This month I have made a bracelet for the Art Bead Scene monthly challenge. This time the inspiration piece was a landscape and luckily the colours were perfectly matched by a gift bead included when I bought the Cosmic Ceramic tutorial by Iris Mishly and Hilla Bushari.

Jackknife Village, 1926
Franklin Carmichael
Watercolor on Paper

For my piece I wanted to capture the undulating landscape elements. I have been experimenting with freeform beading but mostly I end up with chaos on a string (one day I may share a failed monthly challenge piece…) so I decided to retain a little bit of structure. I made three strips of peyote beading and plaited them together. I used different sized beads in the strips so they had a slight ruffle to them.

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52 Earrings – Sea

27 Sun May 2012

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52 earrings, blue, earring, earwires, foam, sea, sead beads, shell

This week’s theme for the 52 Earrings Challenge is “Sea”. I have used cornucopia shaped shells and created a flow of foamy sea blue yarn encrusted with pearls and glass sead beads. The earwires are handmade using bronze coloured niobium wire and feature tiny shell shaped spirals.

Shell and yarn earrings

“Sea” earrings by Cate van Alphen

Shell detail

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