Art Bead Scene

Challenges 2017

MONTHLY ART CHALLENGES FOR JEWELRY DESIGNERS

Celebrating art beads,

inspiring those who use them.

Join us for our monthly jewelry challenge inspired by art history. Translate the design
motifs and colors from the masters into beaded jewelry. Enjoy this monthly guide for 2017 with
our picks for each challenge, a custom color palette and bead picks from the Art Bead Scene
team. Visit www.artbeadscenestudio.com for complete details and to enter the challenge each
month.

2017 ART BEAD SCENE MONTHLY CHALLENGES

Deconstructing Art
BY HEATHER POWERS

You may look at a painting and think thats beautiful, but have
no idea how to translate it into jewelry or even where to start. We
are going to use the artists trick of deconstruction to take apart
the elements of an inspiration to use in your designs.

First pick a work of art or an inspiration. Study it, look at it

carefully and ask yourself the following questions:

Mood How does this piece make me feel? What do I love most
about this piece of artwork or inspiration?

Colors Notice the dominant colors but also are there any accent
colors that are grabbing your eye.

Patterns Are there any patterns in this artwork that could be

mimicked with beads.

Motifs & Elements What designs or imagery can you replicate

from the inspiration?

Here is how I deconstructed my inspiration, an amazing glass

vase by artist Emile Galle.

Mood: Calm and serene

What I love most: The silhouette of shapes in front of the fading
tree line, the irises in the foreground.
Colors: Muted hues of green, blue, brown
Patterns: overlapping leaves, ripples of water
Motifs & Elements: tree line, irises, cattails, leaves and
dragonflies.
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Firefly Design Studio,
Summer Wind Art & Humblebeads

Egon Schiele
Title: Field of Flowers
January Date: 1910
Medium: chalk/paper
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Tesori Trovati, Soul Silver,
& Creative Impressions in Clay

Sir Francis Dicksee

Title: The Two Crowns
February Date: 1900
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Summer Wind Art, Mary Harding
& Humblebeads

Marianne North
Title: Armed Bird's Nest in Acacia Bush, Chili
March Date: 1870
Medium: oil paint
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Tesori Trovati & Mary Harding

Paul Gauguin
Title: Landscape with Peacocks
April Date: 1892
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Firefly Design Studio,
Soul Silver & Humblebeads

Pablo Picasso
Title: Bowl of Fruit, Violin and Bottle
May Date: 1914
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Summer Wind Art,
Soul Silver & Humblebeads

Odilon Redon
Title: Profile on Red Meanders
June Date: 1900
Medium: pastel
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Tesori Trovati,
Firefly Design Studio
& Humblebeads

Henri Rousseau
Title: Tiger in a Tropic Storm
July Date: 1891
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Summer Wind Art,
Firefly Design Studio
& Soul Silver

Kay Nielsen
Title: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
August
Date: 1913
Medium: Book Illustration
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Humblebeads, Mary Harding
& Creative Impressions in Clay

Eugene Seguy
Title: Insectes
September
Date: 1925
Medium: Book Illustrations
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Humblebeads, Summer Wind Art
& Tesori Trovati

Francois Boucher
Title: Madame De Pompadour
October
Date: 1756
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Tesori Trovati, Mary Harding
& Humblebeads

Armand Guillaumin
Title: Crozant, the Bouchardon Mill
November
Date: 1906
Medium: oil on canvas
 My Inspirations:
Mood:

What I love most about the art:

Colors:

Patterns:

Motifs & Elements:

Sketch Your Design

 Firefly Design Studio,
Mary Harding & Humblebeads

Suzanne Valadon
Title: Still Life with Tulips and Fruit Bowl
December
Date: 1924
Medium: oil on canvas
 Art Beads: The Secret to Jewelry
That Stands Out from the Crowd.
Art beads are usually made with the
intention of becoming a part of a beautiful
piece of jewelry. Bead makers are the first
step in the process of the journey of the
art bead, making the beads and sending
them onto another artist who uses them to
create their own art in the form of jewelry
or other crafts.
It is a truly inspirational process and very
special relationships can develop between
the artist who make the beads, the artists
who turn the beads into jewelry, and even
the owner of the finished jewelry.
Great jewelry tells a story. Artists write
the story, and art beads are the inspiration
to that story. We at Art Bead Scene hope to
bring together the creative people who can
make these stories come to life!
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Thank you for letting us be a part of
your creative journey.
- Heather Powers
Founder and Editor of the Art Bead
Scene