Today's efforts
Apr. 24th, 2005 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
norsegirlPretty pleased with most of these, or with my effort on them, kinda unimpressed with how my green is interacting with other colours and with itself.
The solid green bead has a dark stripe through the middle. No idea what caused this or how to avoid it in future, which is annoying. Any beads where I tried to apply green on top of white or vice-versa, instead of acting separately like most colours, it mixes with the white, causing blurry lines, an unattractive colour and it just doesn't behave like it is supposed to. The purple and green on white bead for example is supposed to make triangles. I didn't actually use enough glass to make nice complete triangles, but while the purple is taking on the triangle-ish shape, the green is clearly not. It's just going all to mud and growing out into a non-distinctive blob. And the green bead with the dots, the white looks off-white, which it doesn't on any other bead I've done, picking up the green again. I guess I already knew this from my other experiments with the green and white, but I had hoped it was something I was doing, like overheating. It's disapointing because it lessens the number of green beads I can have in the final necklace, and I rather like the green. It brightens and warms the set. But solid green beads just don't do it for me, and there's only so many light purple on green combinations I can do. Ah well, might pick up a different green next week and re-experiment.
Anyway, I now have 18 beads in the red, black and yellow series (I need at least 50) and 32 in the purple and green series. I think I'd like to make more in the purple and green series so I can aford to be picky when I make my necklace. But there's at least a handful in there that I know are keepers for sure. Still haven't decided how I should string them or what look I'm going for exactly. I've just kinda been creating randomly and waiting to see how I get inspired by the final selection of beads. Suggestions are welcome.
The solid green bead has a dark stripe through the middle. No idea what caused this or how to avoid it in future, which is annoying. Any beads where I tried to apply green on top of white or vice-versa, instead of acting separately like most colours, it mixes with the white, causing blurry lines, an unattractive colour and it just doesn't behave like it is supposed to. The purple and green on white bead for example is supposed to make triangles. I didn't actually use enough glass to make nice complete triangles, but while the purple is taking on the triangle-ish shape, the green is clearly not. It's just going all to mud and growing out into a non-distinctive blob. And the green bead with the dots, the white looks off-white, which it doesn't on any other bead I've done, picking up the green again. I guess I already knew this from my other experiments with the green and white, but I had hoped it was something I was doing, like overheating. It's disapointing because it lessens the number of green beads I can have in the final necklace, and I rather like the green. It brightens and warms the set. But solid green beads just don't do it for me, and there's only so many light purple on green combinations I can do. Ah well, might pick up a different green next week and re-experiment.
Anyway, I now have 18 beads in the red, black and yellow series (I need at least 50) and 32 in the purple and green series. I think I'd like to make more in the purple and green series so I can aford to be picky when I make my necklace. But there's at least a handful in there that I know are keepers for sure. Still haven't decided how I should string them or what look I'm going for exactly. I've just kinda been creating randomly and waiting to see how I get inspired by the final selection of beads. Suggestions are welcome.
