Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Beaded Peacock

My beautiful sister, Gwendalynn, founder and creative mind behind The Beaded Peacock.
With her amazing taste and impecible design Gwendalynn hand makes one of a kind jewelry pieces. She started selling her creations with private home shows. As her business grew so did her jewelry lines, newest is a complete wedding line including brides maid jewelry. With her dedication to detail and amazing knack for tasteful design her hard work has recently paid off and landed her accounts with retail stores and boutiques in South East Idaho.

When I was in Idaho a few weeks ago my sister Gwendalynn was creating a logo for her business. She hand sketched this idea from her mind---two peacocks. The thought was we could wire and bead them, however, I suggested she use my favorite medium, paper.


Using a 8X8 canvas and favorite papers we began paper piecing the peacocks together. Gwendalynn came up with the idea of hand stamping paisley's behind the birds, adding more layers, directly onto the paper canvas. There are layers and layers of paper in each bird. Each piece is then hand antiqued in gold. Jewels embellish. The result is truly spectacular.


The bird on the left is the female, or queen. The bird on the right is male, or the king. They are both decked out with masques and crowns with jewels.



The peacocks turned out gorgeous and it was so much fun sitting with my sister and collaborating together on this project. She is truly creative and inspiring to me!

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