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erin@simonetti.com
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"Picture This"
37 different 11/0 Delica Bead colors, loomed 30 beads wide, another completed
"Picture This Cuff"!
Using many colors, can create a portait more clear then with less colors, but making the colors accessable for looming, can be the challenge. My storage of bead colors, since I own quite a few, was assembled to also make them convenient for use when looming.
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Seasoned Beads: SPRING
The Pansy is a part of my series, 'Seasoned Beads', and is representing 'Spring'.
'Winter' and 'Fall', already complete, are pictured below.
This particular beadwork has brought me challenges, which ended up teaching me, yet another technique. For the first time, I was able to create three dimenstional beadwork, still attached to my loom, in a two dimensional picture.
My beadwork is created, without patterns, free hand, from journel notes kept over the years or 'on a moment's inspiration'. So I am not able to offer any kits or patterns, of my designs.
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"Loomed Cuff with Peyote petals and Pansy Bud"
This Pansy was graphed using 85 11/0 Delica colors. I wanted to include the fact that the Pansy is a delicate flower, with translusent petals. To create this look, I used many transparent color beads, with an AB finish, just dusting each petal with an opaque bead color.
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"Pansy Bud attached to Stem"
Since I extended the Pansy petals, on one side of the looming, I wanted to create a balance, on the other. Adding a Pansy Bud, and dangling it from a Herringbone Rope Stem, not only balanced the cuff, but also hid the clasp and added a unique 'drop' or 'interest' to this cuff.
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"Seasoned Beads: WINTER"
65 different colors,
40 Delica beads wide, size 11/0 glass seed beads, loomed from a graphed design.
The picture I created, 'A Snow Covered Valley', includes snow covered tree limbs at dusk,
with a reflection of the sky in a distant pond.
'Permanent Metalic Silver' glass, 11/0 beads, were peyote stitched, to create the 'snow shelf',
on the upper side of the cuff.
The bottom side is trimmed with 3mm, Sterling Silver Seamless beads.
Swarovski Pearls were wire wrapped, with Sterling Silver, as 'Snow Balls'
and some 'Snow Globe' Lampwork, each are attached to adorn the sterling bar clasp.
Another cuff, in my "Seasoned Beads" series, FALL, can be seen on the front page.
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"Picture This"
Custom Graphed,
Loomed Cuffs!
The copper was a natural addition to this cuff, bringing out the fall colors and rustic feel of the leaves and the cobblestone street. |
"Seasoned Beads: FALL"
This is the second in a series, I am presently completing called "Seasoned Beads".
My 'FALL' presentation includes copper seamless beads,
edging the loomed cuff of 74 colors. The 11/0 Delica Glass Seed Beads
offer an array of finishes which allows my looming to become more dimensional.
I graphed a picture of fallen leaves on a cobble stone street.
The clasp is constructed of more Delicas woven to create another Fall Leaf,
in shades of gold and copper,
adorning Vintage Copper Findings, and a coiled, wrapped copper wire tendril.
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I enjoy working on Cuffs, which I call "Picture This", when they are graphed with a photographic image. Now I am adding additional Three Dimensional parts, beaded in various stitches, to my loomed beading.
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"Happy Holly-Daze"
A Loomed cuff for the Holiday Season. Enjoying to work with photographic detail, I am now working towards creating the three dimensional parts 'photographic' as well, such as with the holly leaves and berries. This "Picture This" cuff was loomed using 45 different Delica 11/0 bead colors. Each leaf was then peyote or brick hand woven, with six of the same colors in the cuff.
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"Picture This"
These are some of my 'Picture This' cuffs, which are loomed with 11/0 Delica beads. Each design determins the number of bead colors I decide to use, which regulates the details of each cuff. Above, the least colors used in one "Picture This" cuff is '6', where the others have '24 to 35' colors graphed.
The Delica Line of bead colors, seem 'never ending', but each has a place, when beaded together with any given color. Details can be acquired with not 'only' the number of beads wide, loomed, but with the finish, color, transparency, opaqueness, or matte of a bead when paired, with another bead finish. These 'Picture This' cuffs are as wide as 35 beads, or as less as 24 beads.
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A "Picture This" Cuff designed around a 'Music Video'
41 Delica bead colors, 31 beads wide. I created the graphed picture after watching a 'music video' of a popular song. I wanted to include some 'movement' of the guitar being strum, as well as the starkness of the 'red lips' on the singer.
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"Picture This" Musician!
Skin tone bead colors are the toughest, for me to select, having to realize that many purples or greens can be the perfect choice for 'facial shadows'. Such a graphed picture, can prove to be exhausting. Bead selection, for each skin tone, is nothing but 'swatch testing' of colors. Looming such a combination, can be confusing. Up close, the picture looks like 'jumbled' bead colors. From a distance, a picture can imerge.
This "Picture This" cuff is completed using 41 different Delica bead colors, size 11/0, 30 beads wide.
Each cuff is a personal statement. Wearing one, of my "Picture This" cuffs, shows a montage of bead colors, fringed with more glass beads. Only when the cuff is taken off the wrist, does the 'Picture This' come to life.
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"Cloisonne Wrist Corsage"
My original idea was to create an ornately decorated cuff, using the 'cloisonne' style, as my guide.The process of creating a cloisonne' bead includes soldering a brass cell into shapes on a brass ball, in the shapes of flowers and leaves, then filling in the cells with paint and enamel before firing in a kiln. I followed these techniques, similarly, using Delica 11/0 beads, Japanese glass seed beads, again size 11/0, and 4mm Gold Swarovski Crystal Bicones. |
The cuff is a loomed band of 'crayon' red Delicas with a simple gold motif. Each petal was loomed, varigating blues, differently, on each petal. The leaves were loomed, in the lime greens of Delicas. All parts, petals and leaves, were then trimed with 14kt gold metalic Delicas to replicate the 'brass' on a cloisnne bead, and each were also wire framed to stabilize the 3-D display. The center if the flower is a vermeil bead topped with a crystal. Each detail, around the center vermeil bead, was loomed as well. |
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"Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly"
The 'Yellow Swallowtail Butterfly' is such a wonderful muted shade of yellow, but very difficult to recreate with 'glass bead colors'. This is hand woven with 15/0 glass beads, wired to hold it's shape then secured on top of a loomed cuff. The cuff design is an 'arbor of roses', loomed with 11/0 Delicas and detailed by outlining each portion with colored wire. the fringe is 'cut' 4mm turquoise color Swarovski Crystals and 6mm frosted glass beads.
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"Iris Wrist Corsage"
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This flower seemed to be impossible for a wrist corsage, as it cannot be
displayed with any other view but a side view. This perspective was challenging
and very rewarding, at the same time!
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"Purple Spotted Swallowtail"
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This butterfly is better known as 'The Purple Spotted Swallowtail', but it's scientific name is 'Graphium Weiskei'. In researching butterflies, this particular one, caught my eye. These colors are vibrant and some of my favorite. The cuff is loomed, 18 beads wide, with a 'wired' design, for detail. The fringe is finished using glass AB Green Daggers.
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"Daisey Wrist Corsage"
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A 'daisey' was the first subject I beaded to perfect my idea, of creating '3-D Loomed Wearable Art'. Each petal is loomed separately, framed with wire, then attached, individually, building the flower you see on this loomed cuff. Antique glass, size 11/0, beads were used. I loomed the cuff with 'ginger' colored antique glass beads, and graphed a simple design to pull all the colors together. Natural jade daggers trim the edge, which I feel continue the 'linear lines' of the daisey petals.
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"'Blue Morpho Butterfly' Wrist Corsage"
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"Blue Morpho Butterfly Wrist Corsage". At top a loomed cuff, is a Blue Morpho Butterfly which is hande woven 15/0 glass beads, wired to hold its shape. The looming is completed with 11/0 Delica glass seed beads, with a graphed picture of flowers in golds and green leaves. Eash outline of the graphed picture, is outlined in 'copper wire'. The fringe is strung with 4mm AB blue Swarovski Crystals and glass 'drops' of gold. |
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"Poppy Wrist Corsage"
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This cuff is wider than most, 2 1/2 inches, but a bold statement in vibrant colors. The Poppy is a favorite flower of mine. Being delicate and only lasting a few days, after bloom, I wanted to get the colorations correct. A slight hue change between orange and reds with multiple "hair-like"
stamens in the center of a bold black and one very large, long stamens directly center.
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"Monarch Butterfly Wrist Corsage"
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This Monarch Buttefly is completed using 15/0 Japanese glass seed beads. The Satin Matte Royal Blue Delica cuff is loomed with a flower garden design, of pink, green, gold Ceylon and Satin Matte 11/0 Delicas. I detailed the picture on the cuff, with colored wire. AB Black drops and 3mm AB Topaz Swarovski Crystal Bicones complete the fringe.
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"Hibiscus Wrist Corsage"
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The bloom of a Hibiscus is very delicate and beautiful, no matter what color. I prefer the 'peach' tone and decided to recreate the same feeling, with a sage green leaves and a sparkling, curly tendril. I loomed, 18 Delica beads wide, 11/0 beads with a 'South Western' style. Each petal of the Hibiscus is also loomed in tones of peach 11/0 Delicas. The stemin is topaz glass, stacked on wire. For the fringe, I thought the natural feel of 8mm 'rose jasper' stones would bring both colors, peach and sage, together perfectly.
malachite/coral round stone.
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"Luna Moth"
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The 'Luna Moth' has always been an interest to me. It exists in a 'fragile flight' with the most irredencent shade of green. These colors can be interpreted as 'reflections' of light or as 'muted' in sun rays. This beaded cuff, is my interpretation of a Luna Moth. The wings were graphed, then beaded with 15/0 glass seed beads. My cuff is loomed using 11/0 Delica beads, edged with clear glass dagger beads and 4mm AB Emerald Swarovski Crystals. A three dimensional feel was embroided with wire-strung beads and the graphic design adorned, attaching Swarovski Crystals and Sterling Silver rondels.
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"Pansies Bloom Wrist Corsage"
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Pansies bloom in many different color combinations, but the purple and yellow seem to be a familiar color, when this flower comes to mind. This flower's five petals are set very different than other flowers' petals. I loomed each petal with a different pattern. Since the stems of this plant are very long and thin, I included some unopened buds attached to long, 6/0 size glass bead stems. Each leaf is loomed using 11/0 Delicas in shades of green. I secured all of the flower parts on a loomed, 18 bead wide, 11/0 AB Green Delica bead cuff. I custom make my own cuff blanks, then line underneath using suede.
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"Zebra Swallowtail"
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This Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly cried out to have a brilliant red loomed cuff! I used a 11/0 Delica in a crayon red, wired a 'spiral' design on top then fringed with glass red crayon beads. The detail of this swallowtail includes a 'spot' of light yellow, included with the bright white and black.
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My continued interest in 'seed beading' using a loom, and wanting to create 'wearable art', has evolved not only my interests, with varied subjects, but also my 'talent'. Again, the thought of working in any other medium, would take away the time I crave, to advance my personal techniques, in seed beading.
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If you have any questions about my beadwork
or art, e-mail Me!!
erin@simonetti.com
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