2011 calendar!!!

opal
sapphire
peridot
ruby
moonstone/pearl
emerald
diamond
aquamarine
amethyst
garnet

Ok, lots of images. The calendars are ready!!! I just put them in the online store, but only a few images can be shown on etsy, so I wanted to have all of the monthly images available for reference here.

Each month has the corresponding gemstone...It was so fun to pull together odds and ends from my sketchbooks with these big raw gemstones. I have been staring at the big rocky bluffs near where I live and went to an excellent lecture on meteorites last night, so the jagged look of these colored birthstones has been really present in my visual mind lately.

The whole process also made me create collages that somehow remind me of each month, and hopefully set up a good starting off point for each month as it comes throughout 2011. April, for example includes a sketch of my mom when she was younger. Her birthday is in April. April and diamonds always bring mom to mind. :)

Enjoy! and please feel free to ask me any questions if you are curious.