Making a wire tree looks hard but it is actually not that hard at all. When I first made a wire tree it looked horrible, (You can see in one of my earlier posts), so making another tree I was a little nervous it wouldn't turn out as well as I wanted it too. Luckily for me it turned out beautifully. It is possibly one of my favorite pieces I have made so far. I went with using a rose gold, silver, and gold wire to give it a very calming, inviting look to it. I made sure to make the branches stretch out very far. That I used as little sliver as I could, in the end it was perfect. For the base of the tree I attached it to a piano wire, the same piano wire that I had used in an earlier project as well, (Rustic Piano). To carry on with the boat theme I put tiny boats on a few of the branches, it's kinda like a family tree. This piece isn't exactly finished, I am making a gross apple core out of clay, then I will attach wire to it then the other end will attach to the trunk of the tree. Going off the saying, "the apple doesn't fall to far from the tree" I am not sure how it will look, if it looks bad then I will take it off, if it looks good I will keep it. The apple isn't finished yet so the pictures below are what the piece is at the moment. The apple would represent you, how most people feel when they fall away from society, the after effects.
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