Challenge Necklace - Art Bead Scene

I had to get in on the Art Bead Scene Challenge this month - the painting was stunning, and had a mass of green-gold tones, which I adore:

Plus, painted by a woman, featuring a woman (and not in the 'woman as object' pose that often permeates, well, everything) - it was the perfect painting to make me join in *G*.





The greens are more olive really - I still suck at photos :(

I have some gunmetal findings which I thought would echo the darker tones very well, and I brightened them up a little with some of my polymer clay beads made specifically for this challenge in lovely green and golds, with lighter leaf and vine motifs. The deep brown carved coconut flowers hint at the darkness within the orb, and I finished the necklace off with a polymer flower, again in muted green, which is a nod to the flower decorations on the central character's hair.