Abstract Heirloom Wedding Ring

July 2025 14 karat gold A friend of mine asked me to create a wedding ring for her fiancé based on a painting he had done soon after he decided to propose to her (but before he had actually proposed). She sent me a copy of the painting (see last image), and at first I had no idea what to do with it—it was compelling, but had no really linear sections that would work around the band of a ring! After sitting with it for a while, I decided to deconstruct the elements of the painting to create building blocks. I knew that the floral element was important to both of them, and I was particularly struck by the center of the top left circle element—I saw right away how this cubist flower would look in bas relief versus on canvas. As I built up a library of 3D versions of the various motifs of the painting, I started to feel like I understood the painter a little better—and that's when it hit me. Since the couple lives here in Hawai‘i, I decided to rearrange the elements of the painting in the