M-m-m-molluscs

I do find molluscs to be very cool. So much that I crafted a pair of earrings for a similarly passionate friend of mine in the shape of nautilus shells. Plugs for gauged ears to be specific.

The picture isn't that clear, and this is just one of the two. Made from sculpey which was then further chiseled and sanded after being baked to get those small nooks. Painted with acrylic paints including a pale gold that stunningly matched the color and quality of nacre (what accounts for the shimmer of pearls, and the inside of an abalone shell). What it represents is actually a cross-section of the shell so that you can see into all of the chambers, and a real shell follows a logarithmic spiral so it actually wouldn't close in on itself. I just wanted to make them circles.