Creating Moonstone and a Talisman

[Marilynx]

I am back at my talisman collection. (It's ongoing for a series of books). 

 

THis time, I'm after a yin-yang symbol made of malachite and moonstone, with bronze surrounding the malachite, and platinum surrounding the moonstone. 

 

 

This is a first attempt at the design, using Creative Text Pro to do the metals. The malachite is from the above thread. 

 

 

For the moonstone, I tried blue and green clouds and then blurred them, but they did not give the effect I wanted. 

 

The plan is the make a necklace of a number of the symbols, linked by bronze links. (The magicker in question really likes bronze and malachite, but this time he's working with someone who does platinum and moonstone.)

 

There will likely be 29 symbols in the necklace. 

 

Edited June 11 by Marilynx
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[Ego Eram Reputo]

Moonstone. You want a milky white with blue and white highlights almost like ice crystals?

 

Here a cleaned up History

 

Pixel Sort is a new plugin. I've used it to create runs of color. One layer used vertical and the other horizontal. I duplicate one layer then rotated and flipped it to add a similar pattern with different orientation.

[Marilynx]

15 hours ago, Ego Eram Reputo said:

Moonstone. You want a milky white with blue and white highlights almost like ice crystals?

 

Here a cleaned up History

 

Pixel Sort is a new plugin. I've used it to create runs of color. One layer used vertical and the other horizontal. I duplicate one layer then rotated and flipped it to add a similar pattern with different orientation.

 

Ooh, I'll have to go grab Pixel SOrt. I can think of uses for it!

 

A description of moonstone is "Generally a white stone, rainbow moonstone features occasional iridescent or multicolored flashes with transparency that ranges from opaque to semitranslucent. Rainbow moonstone is best seen in natural light for play of color."

 

THis is a pic of a rainbow moonstone, which I snagged from Firemountain Gems.