Kate Boyan's Gallery
Finished an order for with the request of a hummingbird, the desert willow and a rabbit. The new owner is in Joshua Tree CA, so I was trying for a dry, airy feeling on this one. Also, I've done alot of rabbits so I wanted to do something different. I went for the rabbit in motion, instead of sitting, and was pretty happy with the way he turned out.
I finally finished my Raven and Skull bag. It's one of what I call my book reports, which is to say I read a book and then after mulling it over for a bit, I design a piece of beadwork about the story. The book in this case is " A Raven Named Grip" by Marilyn Singer. The story goes that Charles Dickens had a raven ( actually several ), Grip who could speak. He made him a character in his book "Barnaby Rudge". When Dickens went to America from England he met with Edgar Allen Poe who had read the book and Poe saw a portrait of his children with Grip that Dickens carried. This stuck with Poe and later he was inspired to write the poem " The Raven". So in this piece of beadwork I was trying to capture a mood, a bit victorian, a bit spooky. The challenge with this piece was all the black. I had to put the leaves behind the raven beak to keep all the dark colors from running together. Ofcourse, ravens and skulls are some of my favorite subject matters and I do love to combined them with bright red roses.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2f9_vzr13w
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