Bulky Serpentine Necklace

One more today. As a change from wrapping wire and beading, I thought I'd try something with these pretty big and bulky serpentine beads I picked up a a show earlier this year. Here's what I came up with. The stones are linked with short sections of brass cable chain and large, thin brass links. The drop at the center is an old Chinese coin I had in my collection of 'stuff.'
Now, it's back to working on the beadwoven bracelet I started the other day. (I'll have to post the picture later. Just got an error message and it won't upload.)

And here's one I did before watching the Reuther video. It's not wire sculpture, it's wrapping, but my own invention. First, I made a squiggle with square wire, well, actualy, first I pushed a piece of 26 ga copper wire through the back of this very unusual stone (I have no idea what it is). It is not drilled, but there was a sort of hole in the back with two openings, one very, very tiny.
Once I had the squiggle done, I wired the stone to it using 26 ga wire, then decided to wrap 26 ga wire around the squiggle and across the stone to brace it. It is suspended on a copper chain.

Wow, I'm posting twice in one week. A record for me. While I still am enthralled with my beadweaving, I'm also doing quite a bid of wire wrapping, mostly with copper, but a little with sterling silver. Last night I watched a Preston Reuther video on wire sculpture, so of course, had to rush down to my studio this morning to try it out. Here's my first attempt at wire sculpture based on what I learned watching the video.

I haven't been here in too long, but here I am. Thought I'd post some pics of some of my latest work. I'm still doing my beadweaving, but am doing quite a bit of wire works.