More shiny beads for the silvered glass challenge. This month it's dots and stringers with use of silvered glass. You all know I LOVE dots so I was happy to make some for this challenge. And the good thing is, I need a big push to work on my stringer control too but as you will notice I did not make any stringer beads. I'll try next time I'm at the torch.
I'll start off with one of my favorite style beads to make. I call these Crown Beads.
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| Black base, white dots covered with pulsar, raised dots of triton - struck to a shiny finish. |
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| Zebra bead with a dot of psyche - reduced and capped with clear. |
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| Black base rolled in foil, dots of psyche capped with clear. |
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| These dots look different depending on the lighting and background colors - cool effects for sure! |
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| Green mini-crown bead is made with a black base, white dots covered with lt. emerald green on center dots. Raised dots are reduced gaia. |
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| You will need to excuse all the multiple photos of this bead. It looks different from every angle and I couldn't decide which ones to delete. All sides have different combinations of dot layering so take a close look. |
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| Black base, opal yellow, lt. and dk. turquoise and french blue dots topped off with triton. |
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| This bead is actually one I want to ask the silvered glass artists questions about. |
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| It's capped triton but the colors didn't do what I expected them to do under the clear bubble. |
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| Black base, french blue dots topped with opal yellow and finished with raised reduced dots of triton. |
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| Black base, opal yellow, french blue, lt. turquoise dots finished off with reduced triton. |
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| Black base, opal yellow, french blue, lt. turq dots topped with reduced triton. |
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| Coral special base with dots of opal yellow, triton, opal yellow, and raised triton. All reduced. |
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| I hate it when silvered glass fumes the white glass in a bead like this. I was hoping it would fume all the white and then I would like it but - - - live and learn. |
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| Black and white masked bead with reduced triton. |
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| This is one of my personal favorites of the day. Black base, opal yellow dots with smaller raised french blue dots and finished with reduced triton center raised dots. |
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| This is another favorite of mine. This is a good example of all the white fuming. |
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| Black base, white dots covered with pulsar and triton - reduced. |
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| Black base with a mix in dot layering of opal yellow, french blue, lt. and dk. turquoise with triton left raised and reduced on top of it all. |
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| Black base with dots of bubblegum pink, lt. silvered plum topped with aurae. The aurae fumed the pink too much for my liking. |
Wow talk about a lot of photos in a post! I'm still not finished. I have a customer who made a special request for dog bones and paw prints. I'm not very good at sculptural beads so each bone took me about 30 minutes. I'm sure I could make them faster if I worked at sculptural beads more often. She has not seen them yet so I don't know if she likes them. I just sent her an e-mail with the photos today. Let me know if you like them or if you have suggestions - I'm open to all the help I can get from the sculptural artists out there!
Thanks for stopping by to read my blog! Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving this Thursday!!!
Chris
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