Different enamel decal colors do different things.

Chakra’s? Who saw that first? I was inspired by all of the symbolism used in Chakra art.  These are my Chakra decals (in that bead on the left).

Red wants to challenge me (#1), and when I put it beside dark blue, it gets slightly fumed on.When bright red does come out to say hello, it is extremely exciting. It feels like an invention all over again.

Blue is melting at a higher temperature than the rest. It does not want to be smooth; the decal (2nd one down) has an awesome texture between the different blues, you can feel the design more than you can see it. (The picture is not the best, but I sold this bead, so I can not re-take it.)

Green is a fabulous color with these enamels.  The popping contrast in this symbol made it what it is.  This is what I wished some of my murrinies would come out looking like. The green covers almost every color I put it on; it has very little transparency. (Even on borosilicate glass; the green is awesome.)

The sun is probably one of my oldest doodles. (hippie art has always been a favorite) Yellow and orange Love to be placed on white.

Last spring I was working with the star murrini idea. (orange and yellow 2nd from last; decal #6) The murrini stars can fall left or right of center; the decals stay right where they are.

The bottom flower is designed from some photographs of my petal murrini. The image was shown to you here, in my last post. Those reds come out best on white.

The Love Goddess below was taken from a glass geode sculptural bead. This was my first Goddess ever sculpted on a geode style soft glass bead (inspired by Andrew Brown). I cropped the geode bead from the picture to show only what the geode inspired. The bird is a symbol of peace (right?)…so it made sense to use this Bird “Google image” above my Goddess. (Is that OK? to use an image from google?)

This last bead has a couple of different decals that I am very happy with.  They are made with photographic images of my petal murrini. These decals have potential to create some fabulous sets of lampwork beads.  I put these for sale at my Etsy shop. We’ll see what the Artist’s do with them.

Sheila Morley blogs from her home in Southeast, Michigan. Sheila’s glass art, and decals are available for purchase at her website, and at her Etsy shop.