BARN BURD DESIGNS ~ BY KATHERINE T~ BEADS~JEWELRY~ART

September Art Bead Scene Studio Challenge

Insects

Eugene Seguy

Published in 1920

Pochoir Print

Image Credit: Special Collections Research Center at NCSU Libraries

It's funny that this month is bugs when I have been collecting several bug pins on Pinterest

I have always been intrigued by dragonflies so I used a pearl polymer clay which I love, and came up with this pendant that strings through the back so it doesn't flip around and the beads. 

I equate my use of polymer clay to painting and sculpting at the same time and I love it!
So here is my bug painting, yes abstract but that's the way it is sometimes.
It is a pendant by the way.

 I also do a lot of gardening for insects. The bees and butterflies are having a hard time. I was making butterfly wing patterns and ended up with this necklace.
The black and white part of the bottom right bug pattern caught my eye and I guess it stayed in my head. So I combined the wing patterns with the black and white patterned clay. The white beads are white turquoise and the matt black beads are Czech from Art Beads.