Post #500359 by pdrake on Tue, Dec 22, 2009 1:13 AM

thanks you very much. i was pretty happy with the monkey. it attracted a huge amount of attention when i wore it out. too bad bar people don't want to spend a hunnerd bucks on jewelry. it is a one of a kind. i'll make more soon in different genres.

i like to have fun with my work. i try to make stuff that i think will be popular and it usually falls by the wayside as i often come up with an idea and then tackle it immediately. that would be my adult OCD showing itself. had one this afternoon and i'm almost done with the sculpt.

it's been an interesting process on this piece. picasso used to work the way i did this. it was a type of deconstruction. he'd often paint an almost photo realistic painting and then deconstruct it to his cubism style.

i'm taking this from a pretty fine piece to a pretty accurate antique looking piece. i try and stretch myself on each new piece. can't learn if you keep doing the same thing. (you'll just get the same results.)

thanks and mahalo again!