MaryHardingJewelry Bead Blog: Inspired by Pitcher Plants

Picture by Eric Wentling Pitcher Vegetation

Every single thirty day period Eric Wentling choses a photo to encourage his wife Sarajo. She then shares it with the FB local community and asks us to perform alongside with creations we make inspired her husband’s picture.

Right here is what Eric wrote about this month’s photograph of Pitcher Crops:
This thirty day period I chose a picture from our recent excursion out to Ligonier, PA for the Allegory Gallery’s Inventive Camp. Andrew Thornton directed us out to a nearby bathroom exactly where the carnivorous plants were being in total bloom. An whole subject of these pitcher plants and considerably lesser sundews stretched all around us–natural beauty and savagery all wrapped up in 1 little leafy offer. The bizarre condition, as very well as the striated deep crimson designs in opposition to environmentally friendly actually jumped out at me and I wanted to see what a bunch of jewelry designers could pull off with this inspiration!
I could not resist the problem of these unique pitcher vegetation and the gorgeous hues they are sporting in their exceptional garb. So I am playing together. This is my 1st time.

I was so enamored of these awesome plants and the color combo of burgundy and lime eco-friendly that I went to function correct absent.
My to start with piece was a fern leaf in the pitcher plant palette. I was doing the job in polymer clay and have been considering the fact that I broke my ankle a number of months back and could not have obtain to my studio owing to the stairs. I assume to start off doing work all over again in ceramic clay in Sept.

Fern Leaf by MaryHardingJewelry polymer clay

I was actually enthusiastic to consider modeling a pitcher plant from polymer clay. I come across that polymer is like magic for me when it arrives to make 3 dimentional varieties. Here is the first pitcher plant I arrived up with:

Pitcher Plant Front See by MaryHardingJewelry

Pitcher Plant Back View by MaryHardingJewelry

Pitcher Plant Side Perspective by MaryHardingJewelry

So considerably it does not have a stringing gap that would display screen it ideal facet up. I program to include a stringing loop before long. This is a single of the matters I like about polymer: it can be modified way after it is fixed by just curing all over again.

Then I built a smaller sized pitcher plant that has a stringing loop.