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Pörrö | February 28, 2009

This month I studied illusion techniques with metallic Premo.

Lessons learned this month:

- Although I have done plenty of illusions during the years I have usually worked with stamping techniques. This time only one of the beads was made with stamping.

- Working in monochromatic colour palette is easy with this technique.

- Stringing flat beads to make necklaces gives the piece a lot of volume without adding much weight. I have several interesting ideas how to go to this direction.

- I did discover some new (new to me probably) ideas that can be used to make faux stones.

- Working with illusions is great as there is no leftover clay. Any bad beads can be mixed back to smooth clay and started over.

- I only sanded the sides of the beads but did not buff the beads as I do not like the overly shiny look metallic clays have when buffed, especially on designs on colours like this. How ever buffing the beads would suit for different colour palette.

- A friend took black and white picture of me with the necklace. I found out that the effects show up in B & W pictures quite nicely:

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Pörrö | January 31, 2009

I have been studying two colours with beads this month. Although some kind of sampler necklace will eventually come out of most of the beads I made this month I wanted to make something simple that I actually will wear.

Lessons learned this month:

- The simpler the bead, the more it needs finishing for the necklaces. Some of the sketchbook quality unfinished beads still were the best discoveries this month.

- There are still tons of ideas untried and the bowl of sketchbook beads has about months worth more designs.

- Colour matters. With black and white (or ecru and black in my case) the beads look very different than they would with either harmonious colour palette or with compliment colours.

- Thanks for the miracle of WP scheduled publishing this task was less tiresome than I thought it would be. How ever I still need to organize this thing bit better.

- The process seems to be worth it. Out of 31 published beads two were complately new discoveries to me and the ideas keep flowing in the head.

- No more two colour beads for me for a while, thank you!

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