Salt Lake City, UT (PRWEB) September 16, 2009
Wire-Sculpture.com has announced the winner of their 2009 “Inspired Druzy” Jewelry Contest by naming Ms. Rhonda Chase, with her piece entitled “Crystal Cave,” the Grand Prize Winner. As the Grand Prize winner Ms. Chase will obtain a “Wired Retreat,” a convention held in Buffalo, NY, in October.
The value of this prize is $ 1797 and will feature instructor Dale “Cougar” Armstrong, an expert in the art of wire jewelry making. She has many tasks planned as nicely as some enjoyable surprises for all participants!
Ms. Chase also receives free of charge accommodation at the retreat, currently being hosted at the Buffalo Hilton Garden Inn, as properly as meals. The Grand Prize did not contain transportation to and from Buffalo.
The essay submitted by Ms. Chase is poetic and is incorporated herein along with a photograph to demonstrate what it requires to generate a winning masterpiece when creating wire jewelry.
Grand Prize Winner Entry – Crystal Cave”Plink. Plink. Plink.
A drip.
A faint glimmer.
The moon-like gleam of a stray ray of sunlight. Stroll into the dark. Quiet. The globe is gone. A new world awaits.
Turn on a light. And see. Like you have by no means witnessed prior to.
Enter the cave. Resplendent walls of crystal with wonderful spires and drops. A magnificent shining cavern and a silent secret river sliding previous the stone. At the center of it all, a magnificent nonetheless pool, saying practically nothing, but drawing wonderful attention by its beauty. Crystal formations lie just beneath the waters’ surface, shimmering with uncanny light in this dim globe. On the banks of the pool, banded layers of gemstone laid down over eons. “
A crystal cave was the inspiration for my Druzy artwork. These wonderful caverns present a world inside of our very own, mystical in physical appearance, but completely earthbound. The extremely core of the earth itself–rock. My beautiful Druzy appears like a still blue pool at the base of the cave. Look into the pool, and see the sparkle of crystals beneath the water, the reflection of gems over. Look about the pool and see a liquid silver river winding slowly past it and by way of the cavern. The Druzy seems to float in its setting so that it is not obscured from light or view. I have enhanced my crystal cave with Botswana agate and Swarovski crystals carefully selected to match and accentuate the Druzy. You can see the river break into swirls and eddies as it splashes into these formations. And as the water comes around the far side of the crystal pool, five cost-free-hanging rivulets of fine sterling chain and hand-wrapped hyperlinks generate small, gentle streams. Following this, the river will continue on, the cave will carry on on, but we can see no more.”
Beyond the Grand Prize, a Public voting and the favorite choose by Wire-Sculpture.com employees prizes went to Stephanie Eddy for her “a single Man’s Pond Scum” pendant and Marie Parker for her “Life’s Hope” piece, respectively. Ms. Eddy won a $ one hundred Gift Certificate from Wire-Sculpture and an autographed copy of Dale Armstrong’s new “Wire Working” book with customized feedback about her entry. Ms. Parker also received the very same for her wire jewelry entry.
The contest required that every contestant create an original piece of wire jewelry employing at least one particular Druzy Gemstone Cabochon, submit a photo and write an essay about the piece describing in which the inspiration came from to develop it. Every entry was judged for its originality (30 points), for its creativity (30 points), and for the artist’s capacity to tie in their inspiration for naming the piece and their essay with the developed wire jewelry piece (40 points). There were over 50 entries in the contest.
The term “Druzy” (also spelled as Drusy or Druse) refers to the tiny crystal which is formed within or on yet another stone in a huge amount. When the ground water that carries dissolved, silica is by means of force pushed into the porous location of rock, speedy cooling happens and it causes the formation of minute crystals.
Wire-Sculpture.com offers wire jewelry creating supplies, tips, and schooling to hobbyists and specialist jewelry-makers and as a outcome give the jewelry-making community with a platform to run competitions. These contests are not only fun but assist jewelry makers find inspiration, understand new methods, and create a neighborhood of artists that love to produce jewelry pieces.
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