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Draped Pendant

Janice Fowler - Thursday, January 31, 2008 - 12:36pm

This is a pendant made with sterling and 24k gold foil. The gold foil was applied, then the form was created in a swage block and then I textured the form. I added a wire swirly bail and a few fine silver balls and called it 'done'...but now I'm thinking of reworking the bottom part - just seems to bare down there.

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The Kraken (front view)

Johanne Brunet - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - 9:10am

This piece is very difficult to photograph. It is quite impossible to present the 3D aspect of the whole piece in only one shot, so there it is, in three different pictures.

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The Kraken as a pendant

Johanne Brunet - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - 9:08am

In this picture, you can see how it can be worn as a pendant. The leather cord gives it some character, consistent with the pirate aspect.

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The Kraken

Johanne Brunet - Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - 9:03am

The legendary Kraken is a wearable sculpture, made of crocheted and knitted 14K gold filled wire. It is holding a pirate ship in its arms, sinking it. The ship has been crocheted with sterling silver wire, and the deck has been woven in the same material, then heavily oxydized.

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Introducing Myself

Johanne Brunet - Friday, June 29, 2007 - 6:09pm

My name is Johanne Brunet, and I am a self-taught jewellery artist from Quebec, Canada. I work from my home on the south-shore of Montreal, and I am the proud mother (if tired) of two teenage boys (15½ and 13).