This unique jewelry is made by creating molds directly from botanical elements, similar to lost wax casting. While traditional lost-wax casting begins with a hand-carved wax model, Michael Michaud uses an actual leaf, branch, or flower instead of the wax model. A mold is created around the botanical element and as it is heated the plant matter burns away and leaves behind a beautifully detailed mold of itself.

Black-Eyed Susan's are one of the most popular wildflowers and tend to blanket open fields with their charming, golden-yellow beauty and rich, standout centers. The Black-Eyed Susan brooch is cast in bronze with a 24k gold finish and accented with gold leaf and cast glass.

• Cast bronze with a hand patina finish
• Accented with cast glass
• 24k gold finish
• 3.5" x 2"