Custom designed Pair of Flamingos pendant with a big berry tourmaline and a pair of Old European cut diamonds. Tiny diamond eyes. The backside has a little something as well: blackberries, blossoms, & leaves. 19K rose gold.
This is a piece I carved just for fun. It started as a doodle in my sketchbook that I liked the look of; I thought the birds kind of had a Hieronymus Bosch thing going with their inflated bodies and teeny wings. I decided to carve it into a pendant for this big fat pear blue zircon. This was an especially fun piece to make. 18K.
I love when the backsides of pieces have a little extra something-something, and the shape of the bird bodies brought to mind eyes, so I made eyes happen.
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This giant luna moth neckpiece! It was delicate and large and I had to carve it, then break it up into five separate pieces for casting. Then assemble it at the end. It is set with a fantastic giant Ethiopian opal, with additional Australian opals in the wings. Stones are a gradient of sapphires and tsavorite garnets from bright green to yellow. 14K white gold.
It’s big!
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Mother’s pendant with roses & twisting vines. I liked the sort of ‘cartouche’ shape of this pendant. The birthstones are citrine & sapphires for the children, and a ruby & alexandrite for the parents (set into the base of the two vines, and seen only when you look at the bottom of the pendant). 18K gold.
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Cats actually are quite hard for me to carve, for some reason. I decided to give this Sphinx cat a go because they are so interesting looking and I thought all the wrinkles would be fun. I also was experimenting with the two-tone, 18K yellow gold & 14K white gold, something I don’t do very often. The clasp has an Australian opal and the clasp loop has a pair of little diamonds as well.
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I made a sketch a while back that I knew I had to create, and then I spent much of last year’s Tucson Gem Show on the hunt for thee perfect stone for it. I think I found it in this fantastic bluish green elongated tourmaline.
5.79ct tourmaline, and .12ct diamond. 18K yellow gold.
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We had First Cicada, yes, but what about Second Cicada?
This version was inspired by the spread-wing cicada and amazingly, my client had extremely similarly shaped stones. The pink and raspberry colored stones are tourmalines, and the rest are diamonds she also had lying around, as one does. 18K yellow gold.
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What better muse for a fantastic jeweled insect than a giant beautiful weird cicada? They have incredible wing structure and a slightly robotic look about them. A perfect candidate to recreate in 18K gold and multi-colored sapphires.
It is no fun to leave the backside plain. The chain used for this pendant was an antique watch chain; we did end up swapping out the circular spring-clasp for another swivel clasp to match the other side.
Many more photos after the click:
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