The over-the-top red necklace is (mostly) done, even though I might play around with the clasp a bit more. It and I came to a compromise on its name: Dragonfire Cameo.
I talk about the genesis of this piece here.
It’s for sale here on my SaatchiArt page.
In keeping with my life’s apparent current theme of ‘rebuild and rewrite’, this necklace mirrors the general path of my fiction. Each project starts out terse and overly simple, maybe with a lot of clunky elements, then gets refined over the revisions.
At any rate, I rather like this monster.
Materials: Czech pressed-glass button in ruby and gold, blue-green dichroic glass cabochon, pressed glass navette dangles (red), pressed glass knife dangles (iridescent blue), 4 luster red beads from a cannibalized Avon necklace, seed beads in various colors and sizes, red and tawny beading nylon thread, and a lot of coffee.
Techniques: Right Angle Weave (RAW), Cubic Right Angle Weave (CRAW), one-drop and two-drop gourd stitch (peyote), ladder stitch.