Garnets
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| Red grossular garnet, Mexico (my collection) |
Always fascinated from garnets because of their colour. The red of some variety (grossular, pyrope, spessartine) remembers of the vivid red of the grains of pomegranate.
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| Red grossular garnet, China (my collection) |
To me especially it remembers of the beautiful deep red "ruby" colour of the red Italian wine not so old.
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| Red Garnet, Brazil (my collection) |
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| Red Garnet, Afghanistan (my collection) |
As a precious stone, the red garnet is not of value, except for those pieces that show special clarity, colour and purity.
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| Red grossular garnet, China (my collection) |
The garnet was used as a stone on rings, instead of the true and extremely expensive ruby, at the end of the 19th - start of the 20th century
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| Faceted red garnet (my collection) |
Mineral and crystals of red grossular garnet
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| Watercolour on "sketchbook exchange" | |
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Botanical garnets
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| Watercolour on "sketchbook exchange" |
Gorgeous collection of garnets, and wonderful paintings xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Claire, they are small ( both garnets and paintings :-) )
ReplyDeleteGiovanni! These are stunning!! The garnets and the pomegranates are both so beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks Shevaun ! This means that drawings, compared with photos, cut always a fine figure !
ReplyDeleteI love the comparisons you made to the garnets and pomegranates. Fabulous paintings, GB!
ReplyDeleteThank you Terri. GB thinking to other comparisons between mineral and botanic beauties !
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