Painterly
This is a dreamily muted 50 cm long necklace in shades of grey and beige, featuring semi-precious stone beads in Picasso jasper, agate, labradorite, and bright silver beads. For more info on the necklace, please click on Details, and if interested in my musings, please go to Story.
The identification of the beads start from the bead in the centre, moving upwards, with measurement for some of the bigger beads, with metal beads named last.
Length: 50 cm (19.5”)
Weight: 150 gms
Round agate: about 17 mm
Picasso jasper disc: about 15 mm wide and 9mm thick
Labradorite: 14mm
Picasso jasper barrels: 22mm long by 15mm wide
Silver discs: a pair of 12mm and the rest are 10mm
Silver spacers
Gold filled crimp tubes
Silver toggle clasp
I have always been attracted to the dreamy Picasso jasper with their abstract art-like design, but my earlier attempts to design with it were not satisfactory. I once tried designing these Picasso barrel shaped beads and the smaller oblate discs that you see here with big silver oblate discs but the brightness overwhelmed the muteness of the Picassos. Then recently, rummaging around, I spotted this small bag of big round agate that I had almost forgotten I had. I then thought of the greyish labradorite that I had bought recently in Bangkok. I added to it smaller sterling silver discs and silver spacers and liked the overall effect. It is dreamily muted, the bigger agate beads let light through, while you may catch the labradorescence (as the bead is turned, you may see flashes of blue and possibly other colours across the surface) of the grey labradorites from time to time. And the silver discs brighten, but do not overpower. I think I surprised myself with this design, as it is quite unlike anything I have done before, and I am really pleased with that!
I am calling this necklace Painterly. This would work quite well both with pastels, and stronger colours like black, navy etc, but possibly not brights.
