I do love to carve these fantastic insects! This is another iteration of the Death’s Head Hawkmoth-inspired Memento Mori, this time set with a warm palette of fancy-color diamonds with fancy-shaped cuts along the wing edges and abdomen. The thorax is of course set with a Tahitian keshi pearl carved as a skull. 18K.
The backside has a classic Latin message we should all take to heart: Carpe the Fucking Diem. (With a little diamond in the Fucking ‘i’)
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This ring was designed to repurpose a collection of stones from older pieces of jewelry no longer worn into a new ring with a spray of blueberries and leaves across the band. The center stone is a sapphire, and the smaller stones are diamonds and color-change garnets: these guys change from the purple you see here to kind of a teal color, the color shifting as I went around my studio and they reflected different light sources. 18K.
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Here is the second iteration of the pendant mounting for the Japanese Shakudo medallions. This time I did a tentacle-y motif holding this second medallion.
Shakudo refers to a type of alloy of copper+gold+antimony that was usually patinaed a dark gray color and inlaid with different mixed metals for contrast.
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This was a very interesting project: I got to design a pair of pendant mountings to hold two fantastic antique Japanese Shakudo medallions. Shakudo refers to a type of alloy of copper+gold+antimony that was usually patinaed a dark gray color and inlaid with different mixed metals for contrast.
This first pendant I designed to have a delicate watery splash framing the piece. (Be sure to click through more photos to see the backside…)
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This ring was designed to showcase two iconic flowers from places near and dear to the heart of the client: California Poppies and Texas bluebonnets. We scattered a few blue sapphires and spessartite garnets around the ring as well to capture the blues and the gold colors of the flowers. 14K.
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I was so excited to design this ring because it was for my lovely cousin & her fiance! Ferns and Ivy carved on the gallery views, pine cones and needles carved down the sides of the bands. 14K white gold with an antique Old European Cut diamond & pair of brilliant cut accent diamonds.
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This ring was designed as a Storybook band using Portuguese Azulejos as a motif, each ’tile’ containing a different motif that was meaningful to the wearer. 14K gold.
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Lotus Pendant in 19K rose gold, and set with a large custom cut emerald in the center. I carved this to be extremely three-dimensional, which looks awesome, but is more challenging (hard to get my tools down in the crevices, both in the carving, and in the finishing process). I think it turned out wonderfully.
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So this wild thing is going to be a large pendant (but it is not yet all put together in this photo). I carved a 3D portrait of the sphinx cat, the center piece will be set with diamonds, then the lower piece has a gorgeous moonstone held in place with claws. 19K rose gold and 18K yellow gold.
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I’ve made this ring before, but sadly, the ring was lost, so this is a remake. We changed up the stone to a very slightly larger green sapphire this time. Happy to revisit this one!
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