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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Lioness carved fully in the round for this epic rainbowy Australian boulder opal. 22K gold. This piece turned out so wonderfully! I love the lioness.
More Memento Mori enamel pendants to add to the collection: This time some super colorful guys with ribbons and crowns. 18K, and hand-painted enamels by Olga Doutkevitch.
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Medusa Pendant! This is a photo of the carving while it was still in the wax–I thought it looked pretty and jade-like with the light shining through. The backside is entirely carved as well.
Somehow, I got sidetracked with too many things going at once and didn’t get finished photos of this piece. I’m still kicking myself. This is the only one I took, when it was almost finished… The stone is a smoky blue-gray spinel.
Click through to see more of the wax photos, especially of the backside.
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‘Three Friends of Winter’ pendant: Plum, pine, and bamboo. Set with a beautiful slightly bluish-green tourmaline. This was a really fun motif to work with and I love how the piece turned out.
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Custom-designed pendant around this gorgeous green-yellow custom-cut Mali garnet (cut by Geologic Spectrum). Surrounded by a gradient of garnets from deep orange and lighter yellow-orange Spessartite, yellow-green andradite, light and deep green Tsavorite. 19K. The backside has carved peacock feather detail.
This awesome lotus pendant! Heavily three-dimensional, and set with a ~10mm emerald in the center. 19K rose gold.
This was a very challenging piece to carve, but it turned out so nicely! I really like the color contrast between the emerald and the rose gold.
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Often one design I make inspires more similar pieces. Such is the case for this new iteration on the classic owl face pendant. Diamond eyes, and this time, the entire backside of the piece is carved with a feathery motif. 14K, diamonds.
These hand-painted memento mori enamels are just about the greatest thing! I cannot tell you how much I love these, and how stoked I was to get to make a pendant-bezel design for them. After much agonizing, we selected four of them (to start…) 18K
These enamels were painted by Olga Doutkevitch.
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Another take on the Death’s Head Hawkmoth Memento Mori theme. This time featuring a wonderful enamel by Olga Doutkevitch, plus a red coral heart and a pair of diamonds in the wingtips. 18K. And of course just a little bit of detail on the backside..
The backside has the lettering: “Memento Mori, Memento Vivere,” which translates as ‘Remember you must die; therefore, remember to live.’
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