I have been working a bit on some new textured beads. I'm so excited about the technique that I can't resist showing some of the results any longer. This is still in the preliminary stages of development, but it has major potential. So here they are (be patient, page takes a while to load):
Those are WAY cool, Grant.
Thanks Barbara
Grant
Wow!! VERY, very cool!!
Love them all. Such organic textures. The first reminds me of hugely magnified pollen. The blue second reminds me of alligator hide and how alligatorsflex their skin to make the water crackle and jump. (The last of the 3 blue beads reminds me of rattles on a diamond back). That third texture reminds me of either a fossil bone that has been worn down to a round nub (like would be found when hydrolic mining where there are fossils) or else like seed case at the head of a flower. And the 4th, those nubs and bumps remind me of minerals building up in, or dripping down from, a cave.
Tina
Grant -
I have a set of mah jongg games by Moraff. One of them is called SphereJongg and I'd swear you duplicated one of the spheres from that game! Very cool!
Totally Textured Beads...I'm totally floored! I've never seen such beads and they are AWESOME!!! Thanks for bringing something new into our bead world Grant.
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Grant" :
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Like seed pods, or sea-tumbled shells. Wonderful work, very exciting stuff, Grant.
Are they glass or poly?
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
They are polymer.
Grant
Beautiful beads, Grant! They look very much like something I've been working on lately. The actual textures are different and the surface is a single color, but I can't help wonder if we're exploring the same or a very similar, technique.
Triche
Carol in SLC New stuff:
Could be Triche, I'd be curious to see examples of your work. Can you post pictures somewhere?
Grant
Grant, I apologize for not having answered you before now. I'm afraid I've been up to my neck in a client's web site and a design class which started this week (and is turning out to be far more involved than I expected--which is a good thing, but which doesn't leave time for newsgroups). Anyway, thanks to that same web site and another art project, I haven't touched my clay for about six weeks now, so everything's put away. When I have a chance, I'll be happy to dig out something and scan it, but I'm not sure when that will be at the moment. In the interim, good luck with your work! It's beautiful!
Triche
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