August ABS Entry - Ramsdell Art Nouveau Necklace

The theme for this month's Art Bead Scene challenge is inspired by Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell's Art Nouveau illustration for American Crescent Cycles, created by him in 1899.  

To be honest, I was not crazy about the art for this month's challenge when I first saw it. I was going to pass on the challenge because I thought the colors drab, and a little boring. 

Everything I had in the old gem box was too bright and seemed to make the colors even more dreary.  I looked at the image some more and eventually decided I didn't have anything that would suit, so I took myself shopping, cruising through my favorite virtual gem and bead stores.  Then I remembered that LimaBeads.com has a new line of Czech glass, and I bought all these and more.   The initial pendant size I was going to use was much larger, but the beads still made the colors seem awfully boring.  I decided to make the image smaller (much smaller) and see what happened.   I think it turned out okay.