New Eye Candy

Pics of the beads I made last night. I had fun playing with some of my Double Helix and TAG (Trautman Art Glass) colors! Striking (heating, cooling and then repeating a gazillion more times!) and reducing (eliminating the oxygen for a fuel rich flame) techniques were used to bring out colors much different from the color of the rods.


This is Terranova 2 (a DH color) which looks dirtier than our Chattahoochee River in rod form. Just a murky, muddy almost transparent brown. But melt it over clear to let the light shine through and then work it in the flame for awhile and voila! These awesome reds, blues & purples jumped out!!!



Next is Zeus (a TAG color) that is clear in rod form. I swirled it over Red Roof Tile and worked it for awhile to get these really deep blues & purples.



And these are my favorite....I want to make more, but in different shapes...nuggets, cubes, maybe some lentils. This is Aion 2 (another DH color) that is also clear in rod form. The rumor is you can get pearly whites out of this, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the blues and greens. The metallic/mirror-y finish that outlines this glass where it touches the black is another cool bonus.