Landscape in the Abstract

November 13, 2013

The sense of open space we get from landscapes or any kind of broad outdoor scene can be relayed in abstract as well as literal interpretations. The draw of landscapes is in the flow of change, and maybe even the idea that a story lies in those changes as we see them shift across the length or width of a piece. And if not an actual story, there is at least the possible background to one. Or so that is always how I’ve looked at landscapes of any kind.

We’ll look at one more set of landscaped beads, but this time of a purely abstract nature, where the change in color makes up the variations across the necklace. Nathalie (who prefers to be called Nat and is under Pluie de Perles on both Flicker and CanalBlog) created this  simple but effective design to showcase her lovely color scheme and purely abstract ‘scape.

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Nat actually created this some 6 years ago, about the time I did my piece I shared on Monday. She did quite a few of these kinds of landscape necklaces with hanging mokume tiles that year. You can see more on her Flickr pages. Scroll down her Photostream page to get to those prior years.

The Landscape of Space

November 12, 2013

Landscapes aren’t just about land. Or maybe I should use the term only when talking of land, and should rise to the suggested use of such terms as waterscapes, skyscapes, and moonscapes for other varieties of terrain. But what about vast stretches of scenery for which we don’t have a term? The necklace below is a “scape” of some sort. Maybe a spacescape?

Silvia Ortiz de la Torre always amazes with her ingenious designs and fearless colors. The fitted design of these hanging beads steps just outside of what she commonly does. Silvia is a master of the dramatically sophisticated through highly saturated color and heavy repetition, but here she’s gone a little darker in color and has added all kinds of variation, while still keeping it anchored through the repetition of the mirrored base shapes arranged around that “A”-like center bead.

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There is less of a connection between the pieces here than the dragon-scape you saw yesterday, but they are all still related and make up an appropriate scene with the randomness of points we see in the stars.

Enjoy a bit of time on Silvia’s Flickr photostream or her Etsy site for a nice blast of color this Tuesday.

Landscape in the Abstract

November 13, 2013
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The sense of open space we get from landscapes or any kind of broad outdoor scene can be relayed in abstract as well as literal interpretations. The draw of landscapes is in the flow of change, and maybe even the idea that a story lies in those changes as we see them shift across the length or width of a piece. And if not an actual story, there is at least the possible background to one. Or so that is always how I’ve looked at landscapes of any kind.

We’ll look at one more set of landscaped beads, but this time of a purely abstract nature, where the change in color makes up the variations across the necklace. Nathalie (who prefers to be called Nat and is under Pluie de Perles on both Flicker and CanalBlog) created this  simple but effective design to showcase her lovely color scheme and purely abstract ‘scape.

2358178611_0f410ccb53_z

 

Nat actually created this some 6 years ago, about the time I did my piece I shared on Monday. She did quite a few of these kinds of landscape necklaces with hanging mokume tiles that year. You can see more on her Flickr pages. Scroll down her Photostream page to get to those prior years.

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The Landscape of Space

November 12, 2013
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Landscapes aren’t just about land. Or maybe I should use the term only when talking of land, and should rise to the suggested use of such terms as waterscapes, skyscapes, and moonscapes for other varieties of terrain. But what about vast stretches of scenery for which we don’t have a term? The necklace below is a “scape” of some sort. Maybe a spacescape?

Silvia Ortiz de la Torre always amazes with her ingenious designs and fearless colors. The fitted design of these hanging beads steps just outside of what she commonly does. Silvia is a master of the dramatically sophisticated through highly saturated color and heavy repetition, but here she’s gone a little darker in color and has added all kinds of variation, while still keeping it anchored through the repetition of the mirrored base shapes arranged around that “A”-like center bead.

il_570xN.337382075

 

There is less of a connection between the pieces here than the dragon-scape you saw yesterday, but they are all still related and make up an appropriate scene with the randomness of points we see in the stars.

Enjoy a bit of time on Silvia’s Flickr photostream or her Etsy site for a nice blast of color this Tuesday.

Read More
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