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Art of the Day: Sunday March 30, 2008

Savita

- by The Lone Beader

This week's theme: Strung Together

Seed Beads are uniformly shaped, spheroidal beads ranging in size from under a millimetre to several millimetres. "Seed Bead" is a generic term for any small bead. Usually rounded in shape, seed beads are most commonly used for loom and off-loom bead weaving. They may be used for simple stringing, or as spacers between other beads in jewelry. Larger seed beads are used in various fiber crafts for embellishment, or crochet with fiber or wire. - Wikipedia

Sometimes simply strung, other times elaborately woven - the beauty and the versatility of seed beads means they find their way into many types of creative expression. This week, EBSQ's Art Of The Day will focus on seed beads and just a few of the ways they can be used to create unique and beautiful personal accessories.

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This is Savita. Savita is a Hindu name which means ' the sun'.

This piece is bead-embroidered using Japanese size 15 cinnamon and teal seed beads. Natural turquoise chips were layered on top of the first layer of beads to create texture and visual interest.

Inspiration for this piece came from the polymer clay face itself, which was created by Stacy Taylor. I've always been interested in astronomy, and I interpreted the colors of Savita's face to be similar to those of a sunspot. A sunspot is a region on the Sun's surface that is marked by a lower temperature than its surroundings. These areas have intense magnetic activity. Even though sunspots are still very bright, the contrast with their surrounding material leaves them clearly visible as dark spots.

This piece is backed with Ultrasuede and is also artist-signed on the back.

This pin was created for Carol Strand-Siebers 2nd Annual Beaded Face Brooch Swap.