laurieopal

I've been doing some final work on a group of waxes. That means going over them them one final last time with magnifiers and great attention to detail.

So I don't have much that's new and interesting to say. But the group is finished and that is excellent. It's not my favorite part, but a much needed part nevertheless.

A friend had asked for more photos of stones, so I worked on that for a while this afternoon. The were remarkably uncooperative.

But I did get a good photo of this malachite. (White is light reflection)

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And here are the pearls:


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I'm planning to make some bronze settings for them.

I'm back from some very good down time and I'm mostly finished with the catch up work. Although I have a couple of ring sizings from considerate folks at World Fantasy to finish.

I'm looking forward to lots of time working in wax. Completing some very detailed commissions that needed a lot of time and precision and working  with more commissions and some new stone designs.

It's raining heavily here in San Francisco and except for a PO run with some photos for an exhibition that need to go out tomorrow, I am staying in!

California needs rain and I'm happy we're having it, but personally not so much.

Photos below are photos of a new stone and some new pearls.




Pearls are about 1.25". The color has a movement that doesn't photo well. It moves against a silvery grey background. And they are gorgeous - some of the loveliest pearls I've seen in a while. Not at all sure what I want to do with them. There are too many possibilities




Stone is about 2' high. It's called Native Paint and is a jasper from a mine that is not longer available to people. It's new to me and I love the patterns.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Photo problem seems solved. I'm now on Dreamwidth as "laurieopal". Even though I can't post images directly on LJ. I can cross post them.

So first image is of a pearl flower and silver pendant that I made recently. Actual height is about 2.5 inches.



I've just finished the octopus/seaweed large bronze pendant with the garnet crystal. it will be cast this week. The textural difference between the way the work looks in bronze or silver is interesting when I'm carving waxes. I need to clearly visualized the metal that I'm making the design in.

The opal, gold and diamond pendants are almost finished in wax. just a couple ofvery tiny touches left. One is a very subtle tiny size modification that I still want to think about a little.

Mood: Photographically satisfied