I assembled the blue earrings from the beautiful pile of blue French beads in an earlier post. They are from Jean Campbell and Judith Durant, Beadwork inspired by art : Impressionist.

It’s a beautiful, full earring, lovely motion and texture.

I went to a talk by Jean Campbell in February about using art as inspiration for the design process, detailed in this post. These earrings are inspired by one of the Blue Dancer paintings by Degas – see the ballerina in the full skirt? I will be using them for something other than earrings as the weight is a bit too much for me. If I make them again, I will use charlottes and scale down the accent beads that make up the dancer’s body. The charlottes might make the skirt look more like tulle.