I carved this ring for an Australian surfer/rock climber/outdoorsy kind of guy. We have the weather-worn beach tree, the breaking wave, and an operculum shell, which is a hard spiraly bit that gastropods use to seal their shells tightly closed. We used to find them on the beaches in Central America but I had not previously known what they were actually called.
The ring is carved and cast in palladium.
That is the coolest thing EVER!!!!! I love it!
Thanks again Cheyenne, It turned out better than I could have ever hoped for!!
Yay! This was such a fun one to carve–lots of real estate compared to some of the teensy eyeball-shriveling stuff I get myself into 🙂 I felt like I could carve a little story around the ring.