Metallic Enhancements

Chris came up with Metallic Enhancements as another way of describing these new flowers. I thought it created a different visual…but not the wrong visual. It’s odd how different words meaning the same thing can imply or create different mental images.

Here are my final two pieces to share. This is it for now…everything I have done is in the gallery. phew it feels good to be all caught up with that. You can see it all in person on Sunday in Pingree Grove if you’re in the Chicago area.
The first I’m going to show is Rusty Rose. I created this last July and actually worked on some of the wire wrapping while camping in Missouri last summer. I entered it into a juried show at the Peoria Art Guild and it was on display there for a month last fall. The bottom layer of petals are made using the most sparkly of cut beads. They were bought out west and I doubt I’ll find them again…but they are wonderful. The wire work is copper, and small turquoise rounds are the accents. Rusty Rose is permanently planted in a pink wine glass.

Late last fall early winter I started thinking about using the wire work with petals to create a SnowFlake. We all know no two snowflakes are exactly a like and really that holds true for flowers as well. I think blending the concepts into a snowflake flower turned out spectacularly well. This is a little rough…but I really like it. I think it could become a line of flowers when the winter mood hits each year. I was really torn on this flower whether or not to add some leaves, and what they would look like. Then it dawned on me…snowflakes don’t have leaves. If you think it looks a bit lonely, it really looks spectacular when combined with some live baby’s breath.

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