This client was looking for a pendant carved with the Chinese zodiac signs for her children: years of the tiger and snake. It is set with an unheated zoisite and a purple spinel, 18K gold.
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Geckos and grasses carved around and holding an amazing free-form Mexican opal. 18K, opal, and diamonds.
I love to complain about how my lightbox never captures the fire in opals, and this is no joke–observe:
Can you even believe it? This is the same ring underneath a lamp. This opal was like this little oceany jelly drop and I wanted to eat it.
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This awesome wedding set features a gorgeous custom-cut white sapphire by Top Notch Faceting (hands down my favorite gemstone cutter). The solitaire setting has a branching tree motif with a crescent moon carved on one side, the wedding band is an open design with a branching tree with leaves motif, and a matching classic-style wedding band with a single branch with leaves intaglio-carved on it.
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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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This Phoenix + Feather solitaire is set with a gorgeous peachy pink pyralspite 1.39ct garnet, custom cut by Geologic Spectrum. 18K gold.
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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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This wedding band was inspired by the Hokusai’s Great Wave woodcut. It’s 8mm wide and 18K white gold.
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This snake was specifically intended to be modeled after a bush viper, which has extremely prominent spiky, ‘fluffy’ scales (the cuddly guy!). A little tricky at this scale, especially when you intend the ring to be comfortable to wear, but I modified the idea a little and am super happy with how this ring turned out.
We also went with a strong patina on the white gold. It is more of a deep metallic gray color rather than strong black like the way sterling silver oxidizes, but I think it had a very nice effect and contrast against the rainbow flashes of the moonstone.
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This ring was designed around this gorgeous 1.5ct diamond. A handful of bright, dare I say, “jewel tone” stones were added around the diamond: a berry colored garnet, a tsavorite green garnet at the top & a Pariaba tourmaline at the bottom, and on the other side is a gorgeous yellow-orange spessartite garnet. The flower is sort of field-marsh inspired, but I didn’t base it particularly on any specific species, just went off and carved an idealized bloom spike. I imagine the flowers are yellow in my head. 18K.
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This is what one of my wax carvings looks like before it is cast (lost wax casting process) into gold. This one I made for a jazz singer in Berlin, and if that isn’t about the coolest profession ever, I don’t know what is.
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