Friday, January 22, 2010

A Fun Night!! Can you guess what I did?










I am sure you can't tell what I got to do last night. Those of you who follow my blog know I don't have my own studio, and that I am just learning how to do this. I spent 3 hours at "Tiffany Glass House" here in Calgary, and got to relax, with no kids and the hum of a fan. Almost nothing could be better :)


So I am experimenting. Not much more I can do, since I have only taken one class. lol. I have to say my favorite results come from swirling and encasing the beads. Fritt is my best friend too, much easier to add than dots or stripes.


I love dark ivory for the centre of the beads. It reacts well with the colours and gives it a old feel, which I love.  Adding the turquoise gives the best reaction of all. It naturally gets a dark edge around it. I tried dots, bubbles, swirling, frit, and encasing. I even tried making nugget like beads with the sides patted down. That was great for the beads that were not turning out quite right. I also tried it on a couple of clear beads which turned out looking a little like ice cubes!!


I tried different colour combos; Ivory with light blue and lime green fritt!! White with light blue and black fritt!! I tried a couple that did not turn out. I had a cosmic something-or-rather which has a redish brown tint and I added turquoise frit. It turned this strange beige-ish colour. There are three of them at the bottom left hand corner of the photo. I need to practice my propane to oxygen ratio to fix that.

All in all, it was a great night!! {and much needed)

Marie

8 comments:

Silver Parrot said...

Oooh...looks like you had so much fun! I would sooo love to get more into lampworking and get a studio set up in my garage. Only 11 years to go until the kid is an adult and I can do stuff like that LOL!

SummersStudio said...

This looks like a huge amount of fun!

Leslie @ Bei Mondi said...

These are great. You are doing great things. The colors are beautiful. Now it's time to turn these into gorgeous pieces to wear.

Cristi Baxter Clothier said...

Very cool, Marie! They look great. I took a lampwork class years ago and hated it! I'd love to give it another try sometime soon.

Patti said...

How neat! Sounds like you had a great time. You have some very pretty color combinations.

I posted a photo of the necklace on my blog.

Have a great day!

Unknown said...

This is really good work for only 1 class! I can't wait to see what you do with all your glass treasures!

Lúcia said...

Ola, what a fantastic image!
Lovely pieces.

Esther said...

what a great artist!!