Fallen Leaves – Inspiration for a Fall Necklace
Who isn’t drawn to fall leaves? Colors changing, shapes drying, and there is a certain fragrance in the air. As a kid, I remember jumping into a huge pile of leaves enjoying that crunching sound they made. So when I walked along our sidewalk and looked right at a group of dried leaves hanging on the tree, I had to pick them. They were perfectly grouped and hung together gracefully. What a lovely necklace they would make! The stages of a leaf Studying the leaves, I noticed the variation in sizes and the variation in twists and turns. I noticed the way they were attached to the center stem. They sat on my desk for a couple of weeks and I would pick them up and look carefully at them trying to decide the best way to create them in copper. Finally I made patterns of 3 sizes of leaves. I cut them out of a copper sheet. Then I experimented with annealing (running the copper through a torch flame until the metal was cherry red a...