MEET THE ARTIST:

Tawny was born into a large family of well known & highly reputable Navajo silversmiths who have all seemed to have made a name in the industry.. After all,when your father is "Lonnie Willie" & a few of your uncles are Ronnie & Rudy Willie(Rudy is married to jeweler Happy Piasso) & your brother is "Cooper Willie" & your cousin is Dakota Willie, well then you may understand why there was no escaping the art of Navajo silversmithing for this artist..(All these names are in my listings)

She's relatively new to the industry & was taught by her dad Lonnie (Who is now retired) where he started having Tawny working with copper since it's a less expensive metal,so if there were mistakes(Which there always is!) it wouldn't be so costly.

Tawny shares both Navajo & Sioux blood lines & was raised on the Navajo reservation in the town of To’hajiilee,NM (Toe-hah-jah-lee) & after graduating from school,moved to South Dakota to live with her mom. She then left SD to be closer to her dad & now resides in Albuquerque,where she spends most days creating jewelry & being a mom..

It's her leaning on Lonnie's wealth of knowledge & her repetitious work that has helped her to become the artist she is today & continually gets artistically inspired from her surroundings, where she'll then turn those ideas into pieces of art.

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THE RING:

Displayed in a large statement style setting are 2 fabulous cuts of natural blue Royston,where the largest stone I would call a "Sky Blue" color & actually does look like a painting of the sky!!! Looking like moving white clouds,they actually give this stone the 'fingerprint-one of a kind' character it has! In turquoise,this particular cut would be considered huge & holds a lot of carat weight & is what helps to dictate the majority of the rings length! These cuts are older & were mined years ago & were actually apart of her dad Lonnie's stash that he's held onto all this time since retiring.

Both stones sit in a serrated bezel & are surrounded by hand melted beads of sterling & thick gauge twisted rope wiring & are what adds to it's traditional Navajo edginess. The face of the ring sits on a tri-split shank & is finished in a matte oxidized finishing,which compliments the color of the turquoise!

**I'm sorry I didn't realize this until I was editing the photos,but I never took a photo of this on the finger!!! I would be happy to supply one so you can get an idea of how it looks on the finger & it's size!!**

**You got to check out the rings already posted that Tawny made for me & which also have some "Killer" turquoise in them!! (See "Ring" listings)**