I am really loving my jars! Every one I make I feel like I am on the verge of keeping. I am trying to branch out from the octopus design while avoiding doing dragons. I know dragons are all the rage, but I learned how to do these eyes from a tutorial on "dragon eyes" and I don't want to impinge on the
tutorial artist's territory. The weirdest (and disappointing) thing is that she started doing dragon eye jars
literally days before I posted my first one unbeknownst to me. Imagine my chagrin when I proudly thought I had a totally original idea and I see that I was "beat". She is a lovely artist and has talents that I am terribly jealous of. The least I can do is defer to her in this and not sell dragon eyes!
So now I am working on other creatures. I have a crow version which I am not happy enough with to post pictures. But I am quite happy with this Nautilus!:
There will be more to come with these guys. I am excited to see where the design ends up from this one, which is my first attempt.
I did actually make a dragon version which went to family member:
And a sea dragon version that went to another family member:
I do have two ready-made jars already up on
my etsy site, too!:
I love that I get to play around with different techniques and ideas on the body of the jars. I really never had room to do that when making jewelry, mostly because I don't like the way polymer jewelry that is just a cabochon look, so I just never really bothered to branch out.
