If you were to choose 12 techniques of beadmaking, one for each month, to practice through all of next year, what would it be?
I haven't quite come up with 12 things yet, but here is my list, in no particular order:
Stringer/heat control: dots (placement, size) and lines (keeping them straight, nice un-lumpy ends)
Fuming: Just got Andrea's tut, and am eager to go. Just need a bit af a boro stick to get started.
Sculpting: to evenly divide by 5 or other uneven numbers. 4 is easy, but 5 is much more appealing to me.
Sculpting: evolve on the organic shapes I love so much (and eventually fume them :)
Vessels: I do have a hollow mandrel to blow through. Only did it twice, though I loved the results
Off mandrel pieces: I made two little heartshaped clumps of glass this year. I have room for improvement. Might need some tools for that. My tweezers doesn't have a good grip.
Longer beads: barrels (they always break for me?) and bicones (never breaks, yay!)
Lentils: I have just bought my own christmas gift, a pair of lentil mashers, yay! I have wanted to try this shape for a long time, and soon I will. Simple ones first of course, then decorated and sculpted ones later.
I also want to study colours and how to combine them. I don't think I will ever be tired of the look of ivory, but a bit of colour would be nice too.
There is also the electroforming I really want to try at some point, and I know I will eventually.
What techniques would you most like to evolve in?
Doesn't have to be beadmaking :)
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Nice idea, Lene! I'm going to make a list of my own. I've signed up to take an intro boro class with Gail Crossman Moore in Jan, so I guess 'try boro' will be my first month's idea. I'll work on the others.
I don't know which one to take first yet, but there is time still to choose.
Good luck with your class. I will stick with the soft glass for now. There are still thousands of techniques I need to try out before switching the COE. Those inside-out beads I have seen around look very intriguing though :)
I would put encasing and buttons on a buttonmandrel on my list. The ladder is so much fun and the buttons are really pretty on a bracelet or leathercord.
Great idea, by the way. Let us know how it turns out.
Mabe we schould make a lampwork-a-long?
Hm, encasing, yes. I should definately work more in transparents. I hardly ever does it seems, and that is a shame.
Wel, it would definately be nice to be held to my plan by others. I have a tendency to let things slide :/
(and I liked your buttons too, just never said so, sorry)
Isn't it amazing, all the different things to try with glass?? Like your list!
It is amazing, and I keep discovering new things I want to try. Yay! for working in glass :)
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