Earthy Meets Elegant - Gourd Art Bowl with Turquoise Glass Bead Border

I am always striving to elevate my artwork, whether it be by theme, style, modality, or by product usage. Having worked with Gourds for many years, this past week I wanted to create a Gourd Art Bowl that blended a truly Earthy yet Elegant feel to it. While some of my gourd work, especially the gourd sculptures are intricate and detailed, I wanted this piece to bring a simple yet dynamic statement.

While I have used Golden products for a long time in my paintings, I have never truly used them with my Gourd work. For this piece, I created a beautiful yet simple gourd bowl that was accented with one of Golden's products, the Glass Bead Gel.

This was placed over a Turquoise Border, which completely elevated the piece, enhancing the bowl with an shimmery elegant embellishment.

It brought a textured glass feel to the border of the bowl, creating a wonderful conversational piece of Home Decor. I could envision it being used to store keepsakes of gemstones inside.

I have this piece listed in my Etsy shop. Photos don't do this gourd justice, with it's rich and shimmery allure.

Earthy Meets Elegant Gourd Art Bowl on Etsy

Comments

ShadowDogDesigns said…

Your gourd art is absolutely amazing. I adore this one (:

March 23, 2015 at 11:17 AM

Jeanne Fry Art said…

Thank you Catherine :) I'm being "One" with the Gourd this week.

March 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM

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