Accidental Beauty- Story of a Mokume gane necklace

             This is a necklace I made without having a pattern in my mind. What I wanna try is just to entertain myself by :MOKUME GANE " technique. Other than that I should not had any specific plan or idea.        

           First I made few round beads n long beads out of the mini mokume gane block. Since mind was blank I left them as it is for two days , day , night, even during sleep time and doing routine work try to conceive an idea. I needed it (the necklace)  to have a FOCAL point, what should be it... thoughts thoughts and only thoughts going on. Once in such time I happened to read my online horoscope. I am a Piscean born by the ides  march.  

          The symbol of 2 fish one upward n one downward inspired me suddenly. But planning went with only one fish. 

      The color scheme chosen "Analogous"- ie, adjacent colors in color wheel like blue, green, yellow and red also present in beads already made. So the fish should be more eye catching, the color Orange was absent in color palate of analogous scheme.

        The basic shape roughly figured with white sculpey original clay on that spiral cane of yellow -orange tone applied as fish scales - fringes - tail parts. Hence my vibrant fish got ready to go.

                  Next attempted to make some more beads to satisfy the length. For this part made a handful of tiny nugget or pebble beads (which do not have a symmetry in shape) in Yellow, orange and an earthen tone to neutralize the other colors. They are arranged in three  lightly twisted raws with the fish at one end then stopping y long mokume beads.

       The clasp is beaded toggle one that too handmade.  :)  I got many appreciation for this from many people which ultimately made me smiled out of satisfaction of doing something with PC.

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Many in One....

                         

 Onam is the state festival of  Kerala a state in India, from where I am hailing from. It celebrates for ten days in the remembrance of  the king "Mahabali" as per our mythology. We love wear our traditional out fits for such days.

So last day I planned to make an ethnic necklace with matching ear rings. Here's what I made. I do not ever want to make an ordinary piece hence I adopted few techniques for this.

Requisites : Fimo blue , Kato gold.

Filigree n faux stone Pendant : Pendant is my favourit part in the set. Base cut from a blue thick piece by a pentagon shape cutter. Hand made oval faux stone placed in the center of the cut shape. Few tiny gold balls surrounding the center. Next aimed to make blue strings (I don't have an extruder yet managed to make evenly by hand) they placed around in some specific patterns along with some golden balls to fill gaps among the curves. This particular focal very much resembling to "Soutache" as it is done as some what inspired by a Russian artist - Anna Oriona's vedio tutorials.

Cane : A simple flower cane is used to adore the blue beads. The cane is not exaggerated though it sinks with blue bead to lessen  the density of intense blue. I made a mini cane with skinner blend of blue n gold clays for the purpose.

Natasha Beads with a twist : The scrap after caning presented in the form of 1 inch long cylinder beads both side with a technique called natasha beads. I just twisted them gently so the pattern flowing all over the beads.

Dotted golden beads / blue beads: Its simple applique work. Gold beads have blue dots n blue beads have dual tone dots.

Size of beads : They are not having an even size, but evenly arranged. Nearing to focal bead tiny handmade poly clay beads used to get maximum attraction. Same way at the end too tiny beads are strung along.

Matching Ear rings : Though they do not possessed  exactly similar matching with pendant in its simpler way.

Color : It would remind u a dancing peacock.

And I am absolutely happy and excited to show you the finished set.