Holey Under the Sea
First of all, thank you everyone for participating in Monday’s fun and games. You all are amazing! I was going to go through and pick some favorite comments to post today, but I’m afraid we’ve been having some serious technical issues over that have kept me from being able to read them all thoroughly yet. And apparently kept this from posting–that was user error, tired user that is. I’m sorry about that. I will get to all the comments later today, but you can read all the great observations by returning to Monday’s post and reading the comments below it.
Let’s keep this going! All participants will be tossed into the hat for the product giveaway at the end of the week.
Today we’ll ponder this set of holey bracelets by Dina Kovalkina. I found this on her Flickr page where you can look at more of her work if that helps you to learn more about what she’s doing and why. What do you think about the placement of the holes; their density? How do the elements from the holes to the ruffled edges work together or do they? How about the colors?
Let me know your thoughts! I’ll get back to fixing technical stuff and we’ll get back on track tomorrow!
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I hate giving criticism without a clear reason why, but there is somethihg that doesn’t quite work on these for me. It may be something as simple as the gold around the holes is as noticable as the gold around the ruffle. It feels like those two have the same visual weight for me, so my eye doesn’t know where to focus.
I love it! Wonderful use of colour and the way it flows to be interrupted by bubble like holes is great fun and then added to that the little beads hinting at seaweed or some other sea plant, as well as the protrusions of clay poking out of the holes just lends itself to both beauty, intrigue and humour. I want to touch them, they look so tactile and certainly if I was wearing one I’d constantly be stroking it.
I like these bracelets, more for the ocean inspiration than the holes. The colors of the ocean are beautiful. The wavy edges remind me of sand after the ocean has moved through it. The lines depicting seaweed are great! I do prefer the ones with less holes, but that’s just me. 🙂 Very fun and playful piece.
The colour of these bracelets is stunning and the lines in a deeper blue remind me of eddies and ripples on water. I love the ruffled edges which soften and flow which fit very well into the watery theme I am seeing. I think the holes do add an edge but for me personally the one on the left of the picture has maybe a few too many so loses its edge somewhat.
In just looking at these pieces I was uncertain if it was meant to be under water, or in outer space!The ruffled edges, however gave it more of a watery feeling I like how some have only a few holes (tiny organisms?) and the one has a whole school of them!!
I love this an excellent use of color and texture.