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Opal yellow glass turns this beautiful maple syrup color. Add some silver to it, and you get a rich brown. Silver foil balls up over and under a rubino (gold) glass and transparent cobalt blue. The background looks like an intense night sky.
This bead was made ‘by chance’. I knew I was going to create an opal yellow figure on the bead, and use cobalt as the base. The silver snuck its way in. The rubino dots were random, and the silver just goes where it wants. Control was not an issue in the base bead.
The control in this piece is obviously in the figure. The skills used to create this type of figure are derived from additive clay sculpting, and painting techniques (my “taught” background; sculpture, ceramics, painting).
Sculpting the figure is intense with an opal yellow. It is a squishy color that likes to be round. I have to constantly cool the surface, while keeping the bead hot.
The challenges are constant. My concentration is locked in on the entire form. the more detail I put into it, the more concentration I require to get the job done.
I have an obsession with Roses. It fascinates me how the petals are perfectly layered. Making a rose with glass is very cool to watch happen. Every dot makes a difference. A dot of clear, depending on where you put it, will change the look of the petals. The clear glass can press on the color to make a ruffled edge on the petals.
This type of bead requires many rules that have to be followed. Unlike the Goddess base bead that is pretty much put together with favorite glass colors, and chance.
I have a constant pull between being exact, and letting things just happen. I go both ways on many artistic subjects. Art can be orderly, or random; and it fascinates me just the same.
I do things until they are done. And “done” changes all the time.
Still on the road to somewhere….
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