ABS December Challenge

PARIS

by

Maria Helena Vieira do Silva

1951

For more details about the Artist and the paintings check out this

 Art Bead Scene post!

For this month's challenge 

I had local bead maker and friend

Katherine Thompson, 

Custom make some faceted PC rondelle beads 

in the soft clay colors of the painting. 

She went above and beyond creating 3 tones.

I also selected from here plethora of metal finding this 

Heart link and Pendant with a subtle embossed grid.

I easily turned the heart link ono a clasp 

with my own recycled copper staple fashioned into a hook.

(The pendant is still on the bead board,

waiting for just the right idea.)

Paired her beads with the bead I won from 

Heather Wynn Millican of Swoondimples.

I went through several design layouts before I settled on this one.

Adding just a few pops of the yellow like the painting.
Even the rusty orange with the silk ribbon.