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Inspiration for the Small Lizard Pendant
For many years before I even vaguely knew anything about silversmithing, I have kept a jewellery design notebook. Alongside frogs, lizards were amongt the first entries and so lizard jewellery was inevitable. This small lizard pendant is one of the latest additions to my growing lizard family.
When making my original Green Crested Lizard, I set out intending to model the lovely smooth, curvy common garden lizard. But my attention was captured by the wonderfully charismatic head and crest of the Green Crested Lizard, with his throat pouch and his somewhat stiff and angular body. The photo that had captured my imagination was of one clinging precariously to a rock in the perfect jewellery pose. But it took a few iterations to get the model right. The large lizard pendant has been a great success and inspired other lizards (geckos, newts, ) to be added to the collection. And then a customer came along wanting a pair of over-sized lizard cuff-links – and my attention was pulled back to the wonderful green crested lizard.
This pendant is the result – and is a somewhat more subtle way of showing your love of lizards than his show-off larger sibling!
