{"id":1042,"date":"2009-04-29T08:23:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2009-04-29T08:23:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T15:23:48","slug":"birth-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Birth of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artbeadscene.blogspot.com\/\">Art Bead Scene <\/a>\u00a0hosts a monthly jewelry challenge, and this month&#8217;s inspirational\u00a0art was\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The Birth of Venus&#8221; by Sandro Botticelli.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it amazing that here we are in 2009, and we continue to be inspired by a painting from the late 1400&#8217;s?\u00a0 That is just incredible.\u00a0 I really love this particular painting, and part of that is purely the colors used.\u00a0 These are some of my favorite colors:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0shades that are faded, muted and soft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044 aligncenter\" title=\"venus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/venus.jpg\" alt=\"venus\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed seeing the work by others who have participated in the challenge, and here I am finally posting mine.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ve used a porcelain focal bead by LeAnn of <a href=\"http:\/\/summersstudio.blogspot.com\/\">Summers Studio<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This piece reminded me of the shell from which Venus is emerging.\u00a0 I chose to focus on shades of blue representing the water in the painting.\u00a0 Coin and button pearls were used as they were &#8220;born&#8217; from shells.\u00a0 The bail from the pendant was made from seed beads.\u00a0 Various shades of Swarovski crystals sparkle thoughout the necklace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1043 aligncenter\" title=\"birth-of-venus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/birth-of-venus.jpg\" alt=\"birth-of-venus\" width=\"425\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to the finding out which painting the editors of ABS will choose next&#8230;and will find out in just a few days.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to believe it will be MAY by the end of the week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Bead Scene \u00a0hosts a monthly jewelry challenge, and this month&#8217;s inspirational\u00a0art was\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;The Birth of Venus&#8221; by Sandro Botticelli.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it amazing that here we are in 2009, and we continue to be inspired by a painting from the late 1400&#8217;s?\u00a0 That is just incredible.\u00a0 I really love this particular painting, and part of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-jewelry-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}