I have been following The “Earrings Everyday” blog for sometime now, drooling over the beautiful pieces of earrings displayed everyday. I have come across very new, interesting materials and forms in the process. They also host a monthly earring design challenge called ‘we are all ears’ and I decided to take part this month, but as I am completely swamped creating my new collection, I forgot all about it until today – the reveal day. So here is my last minute attempt with two very simple earrings.
The “We’re All Ears Inspiration Challenge” is very simple. An image would be provided for inspirations based on which we will create earrings, write a post, link up and visit everyone to see what they have created.Here is this month’s Inspiration: The Guggenheim museum central atrium
Though the architecture provides loads of indirect inspiration, I decided to go with the more direct ones like shape – spiral and cup and dark colors with light effects. I had originally planned to do something with the nautilus structure but that did not work out due to lack of time.
To this point I choose simple oval glass beads with pyrite finish and antique brass spiral earhooks for the first one and and went with faceted greenish brown agate beads and gold plated brass cluster stud for the second one.
As my designs turned out to be quite plain, I have tried to spice them up by using the inspiration in my photography too. I picked a dried leaf with prominent veins and wood blocks to reflect the skylight’s frame and structure.
Hopefully I will spend more time and effort on next month’s challenge. Do visit all the other participants hereÂ
Hope you find it interesting
Cheers
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