I have been obsessing somewhat over Lori Earley’s drawings
and my mom has been asking me for a while to make a brooch for a friend of
hers.
My mom understandably wanted something that suited her
friend’s style and personality and to be honest girly, hearts and flowery stuff
are not my style. I like skulls and leather and creepy art like Michael
Hussar’s drawings and apparently I am the only one around here that appreciates
that sort of things cause every time I wear one of my pieces someone comments
on how scary they are!! Oh well what can you do.
Out of all the pictures I had printed up for my cabochons, “Claudia” was the least cynical and my mom approved of the picture so I started
off the beading.
“Claudia” is a graphite on paper sketch so obviously the
fact that picture has no colour meant that I didn’t have any colours to try and
match my beading to but I wanted to keep the whole thing soft and feminine so I
went with the classic silver lined clear beads all the way around the cabochon.
I have to say that a pale cabochon and pale beading did not
equal an interesting piece and I didn’t think it would when I was doing it but
I was trying to rein myself as much as I could cause this piece wasn’t for me
and I tend to go a little crazy with my bead choices sometimes.
In the end I can say I really tried to keep it simple but I
just couldn’t leave the piece, as it was cause it was just plain boring and
Claudia deserved better.
I fished out all the larger beads I had in the black and
grey family and stitched them on top of the beading that I had already done. it
brought a little bit more contrast to the piece and it made it all the more
tactile .
I did a simple clean edge around the piece and the piece was
finished in no more than a couple of hours!!
LIST OF MATERIALS
USED:
- 3MM SWAROVSKI PEARL IN PLATINUM
- GUNMETAL SILVER FRINGE BEADS
- 3MM FACETED ROUND BLACK GLASS BEADS FROM THE BEAD GALLERY
- 3MM FACETED ROUND SILVER GLASS BEADS FROM THE BEAD GALLERY
- DELICA GALVANIZED SILVER SIZE 11/0
- SILVER LINED CYRSTAL SEED BEADS SIZE 11/0
- BLACK SWAROVSKI BICONES
- 2MM GOLDSTONE BEADS
- SILVER LINED GREY DELICA BEADS SIZE 15/0
- 1.5 INCH BASE METAL PIN BACK
- LACY’S STIFF STUFF
- GREY ULTRASUEDE
- FIRELINE 0.006 IN CLEAR
- E-6000 GLUE
- CRAFTER’S PICK THE ULTIMATE GLUE
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