Over the years, I have had students make mood boards or even theme boards based on seasons. The boards would invariably have the following pictures. There would be Cherry blossoms for spring. A clear beach in blue -green sparkling waters and beige sand with little striped sailboats or beach umbrellas. There would be images of bright orange and red leaves for Autumn and a snow covered landscape for winter.
Inspiration Image via 7-Themes
I would be patient most of the times, and approve these boards. However, there would be times when I would ask them in frustration if they have ever seen a Spring/summer/Autumn/Winter season that looked the way it did in their pictures. Till date, I have not had a single instance when that question was answered with an affirmative. Nevertheless, they would continue to harp on it fascinated by natural colours of Foreign lands. Such is the exoticity of seasons.
Ode to Autumn : We’re all ears – September 2018 – Challenge
Why am I talking about seasons, you may ask. I was in Bangalore recently, staying at a residential area full of parks and trees which I do not get to see in Chennai. Everyday, as I walked through the lanes, I saw heaps of leaves at the sides of the roads. Leaves in green fading; leaves in yellow, dull orange, light brown, and an unsaturated burgundy. There were dull as fall is supposed to be – not as saturated as you see in wallpapers images on the net. Still, they were the brightest fall colours I have personally ever seen in my life. So I took a picture and edited the saturation to make it bright without making it look unnatural.
Autumn earrings
Not I will cut this prelude short and jump into what you are here for – jewellery. We’re all ears september theme is Ode to Autumn and I am making 3 pairs of Autumn earrings for the reveal. All of the Autumn earrings are sold.
The first pair is simple. It has three beads each on wire headpins to create beaded stud earrings. It is a mixed metals piece with the wire spiral in copper and the brass in golden finish. I have used the colours like yellow orange, orange, green and copper-gold from my inspiration image to create this pair.
Cocoon earrings – Orange Mittai
This is the orange version of my hit cocoon earrings. My mom tells me that I loved the colour orange as a kid. I had a fuzzy orange dress made of shiny chenille yarn when I was about 6-7 years old. She would call me orange mittai (orange candy) whenever I would wear it and I loved it. It is hard to imagine me wearing something fuzzy in orange now. However, I think there would be others, like this client of mine who I made these earrings for, who love orange.
Of Fallen leaves and the evening sun
As I mentioned before, Autumns in Trichy (I am yet to see a proper Autumn in Chennai) were in tints, tones and shades of yellow and brown. Only the leaves croton plants that were burgundy to begin with would remain in that colour. However, the fallen brown leaves in the glowing evening sun would look golden. That scene is my inspiration for this pair of long brown wooden earrings.
Those are my three Autumn earrings for the reveal coupled with some of my memories. If you are a musically inspired person, I would like to point you to an older post from my Ragamala Series on Bhairav Raga, which is the musical node for Autumn. I had written that post in 2014 for Octoberfest.
Now let’s hop around and look at some fabulous earrings made by those participating in this reveal on the Earrings Everyday blog.
hope you found it interesting
Cheers
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