Glass... again!

Yes indeed, I am having an amazing time with this new art!  Here is this weekend's progress. 

I am also thrilled that I am actually going to be taking an actual lampwork class in early April!

Beads I made Saturday. Lesson learned with two of them -- if you need to go back and shape it three separate times, it is a wash. The two really dark ones in the center should be the transparent cobalt and dark green that I always use. They got totally burnt out from being over worked. Also sampled the Effetre cobalt. So lovely to work with!

This is the big hole bead on the far left in the image from Saturday. The dots are deliberately assymetrical and the pearly lavender glass worked nicely. I hope it survives annealing!

I ordered two sample packs of Effetre. One was from Mountain Glass, and I think these were the rods from there. Each one was labled with notes on how it acts. NICE!

Sunday's beads! More experimenting, also made some more small beads to eventually use in a period necklace. I love my large green and purple one. I was just experimenting, but think I could more deliberately pull the green into leave shapes. That has exciting possibilities. The large lumpy one is the sorched-to-heck pink ;-)

I had read many places about how hard to work pink glass can be. Likewise, pearl/opal glass can be tough as well. The pink pearl from Devardi was, well, awful. Even pre-heated it shocked about 10 times (or more) and it scorched even working in a cooler part of the flame. Tis a good thing I dont much care for pink ;-)