Parts of Art

     This neck piece was one I made several years ago, from a very thick and variegated section of an artist palette. The palette was not from the usual source (my husband) but was given to me by a friend who is a prolific painter. It must have  had 10 to 15 layers of dried acrylic paint on it! In fact, the top layer was so splattered and multicolored, I came to think of it as the Jackson Pollack palette.  Here are some of Pollack’s painting from his “drip” period:     Not that Pollack ever used a palette! He actually became best known for the large canvases tacked to the  floor of his barn studio,  on which he dripped paint straight out of the paint can.         But if he  DID  have  a palette, this is probably what it would have looked like! Here is the necklace in the design build phase at my work space:              I cut selected pieces from the Pollack palette into squares and adhered them to  brown leather, then black canvas. Next I connected the s