October is my favorite month of the year. I love the fiery
colors of the changing leaves and Halloween is my all time favorite holiday of
the year.
Several years ago I spend many months exploring mold making
and made mold of anything I could lay my hands on that would hold still for at
least 5 minutes. I happened upon some old party picks that were used for the
cupcakes of my childhood. A cat arched in perfect Halloween pose against the full moon.
I created 2 fine
silver pieces and used different methods of attachments one adding a tab with a
hole and the other embedding wire. I also added tiny ruby eyes to one. These
pieces were used to demo different patina effects including nail polish. They were
survivors of many different techniques in my many classes.
As I was searching
for inspiration for the October Full Moon I ran across them. My goal was to
create a piece that could pose in its space in the printer’s drawer but then be
unhooked and be worn.
I tried many, many, many different ideas to no avail until I
decided I had to make 2 separate things.
In all of the travels
the cats had survived the wire embedded had snapped off at the point of
insertion and I had tossed it into the scrap pile. The other began its journey
as a spooky/sparkly Halloween necklace. I completed the necklace and discovered
it would not behave and fit into the spot.
I had created a
background of ink washes on a silver metallic paper to resemble a moonlit night
sky.
Then I wove a wee bare tree with 34 gauge wire and copper
limbs. That was like weaving with hair strands(whew). I die cut a wrought iron fence
and attached everything with gel medium. I rescued the second cat from the
scrap pile and added the patina for the moon from my crazy color collection of
nail varnishes, doing both cat pieces at once so they resembled each other.(
Interesting to note there is a layer of bright poison green enhancing the
golden moon)
All was attached with the gel medium and I added tiny stars
of glitter to the sky. The necklace was created on two silk cords navy and deep
green , one which I added 4 beads, 2 black and white and 2 green rhinestone with
large holes. And of course you need to know why the cat was howling at the moon
it was the singing caballeros with tiny bats circling above.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Peg
