Art Bead Scene Montly Challenge _ August 2012

Fishing Boats, Key West, 1903 by Winslow Homer

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

13 15/16 x 21 3/4 in. (35.4 x 55.2 cm)

OK I'll start off by saying I really like this painting... did that make it any easier to come up with an idea NO.. I'll also say that that does not look like any fishing boat I've ever seen...  be that as it may... I actually have been to Key West... a couple of years ago...  unfortunately the harbor wasn't full of  idyllic fishing boats that day instead we got to see   power boat races... the noise was incredible!

But they do still have a lighthouse so I chose to take this months colour palete and make an enameled lighthouse  for my focal.

My Lighthouse and the Key West Lighthouse

 I had fun doing this necklace  there will be a blog hop on August 31 of other peoples interpretations of this painting.  here's the link to other peoples interpretations of this painting

Almost wordless Wednesday

I didn't forget this week....  I run a small gallery every summer on my small island... and this summer every second person that comes in wants a lighthouse... so two nights ago a spent the entire night  having nightmares about lighthouses... yesterday I turend my nightmares into slightly wonky enamelled prototypes...  The hardest part is persauding the copper to wrap into a lighthouse shape ... the loops on the Port & Starboard earrings are way too big as I was thinking they were too heavy for earrings and would have to be pendants.. but then I weighed them.... hopefully by next week I'll have the non wonky version!