Okay, I'm asking because I have been making what I like but I'm trying to add some new things to my site. So, what type of lampwork beads do you like?
Here are some examples: florals vessels sculptural rounds squares bicones lots of silver lots of frits
Yes, all of the below.
Diana ;-)
Me too, although I'm not into just frits on the surface. I like to pull reduction frit into stringer and use it that way.
Well, yes, that goes without saying. Diana
florals, florals and then (in third place) I like florals.
Becki "In between the moon and you, the angels have a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." -- Counting Crows
I especially like vessels but I'm not in a position to buy much of anything right now... :(
I'm not sure I have a favorite bead style. Some just call to me and those are the ones I try to work with.
Put your joy and love and energy into them and it will show and they will sell... not what you wanted to hear, but it's what I think.
:) Pam
blues, greens, ocean-y, clear encased...boro...
oh, and purple with teal or aqua...
The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized LC in Sunny So Cal Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)
I do put my love and energy into what I make, but I'm trying to open new doors and make myself learn more things. I really, really hated doing florals, but I love them. I still just look at them and just drool. However, I hated doing them. Then I made myself sit down and do them over and over and over, until I got them down. I'm still learning, but at least I have some I'm proud of. They will be on my website later.
Well, I like BIG beads, focal-sized -- 20mm or more. (But then, I work with larger beads in general, so that's no surprise.) Shape is less critical than size, although rondelles are harder to work with as focals. But round, tab, bicone, lentil, cylinder -- all those work well.
I like encased beads, especially encased dichro -- that gives it wonderful depth.
I like geometric patterns and swirls more than I like florals, as a rule. But I also like florals if they *really* fit the colors and style of the bead.
I like cubes! Especially Karen's cubes, even though she keeps putting flowers on all of them. But if you want to see a set of beads where flowers REALLY worked, her "Fairy Dice" is the canonical example.
I like sculptural work, but prefer the realistic variety to caricatures.
Generally speaking, I'm not fond of bumpy beads. But clear bumps to mimic water drops on a botanical sort of bead can work well.
I like vessels to look at, but I can't quite picture how one would fit into one of my pieces, so I tend not to buy them.
Celine
Hi, Starlia. Well, since you asked...
florals vessels though I can never afford 'em rounds but NOT with bumps - bumps hurt my wrist on bracelets lots of silver lots of frits....
Shelby
starlia wrote:
I have become very fussy about the above especially sculptural. I do like cute but it has to be very well done, like Jerri's bunny, Littlecrow's bear and Melinda's ceramic nature babies.
All the above and then some. It's not always just the shape though some shapes are easier to design with than others.
I wasn't saying you didn't Starlia! Just that if you do that - if you follow your heart - really follow it - it will pay off. Yeah it's good to know what the market wants, but putting your joy and energy into things comes back around. Of course that doesn't explain the starving artist thing, so I could be way off base on this....
I like everything encased... melted dots....goddesses.....and many more...
Denise
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I'm sorry if I sounded offended. I wasn't and didn't mean it that way...honest.
I'm not a starving artist yet, but I'm getting there. I'm trying to push myself more and more. Sometimes I just don't do things because they are not working out the way I want and I put them aside. I do that with my paintings all the time, but I don't want to do that with glass.
The thing is, you could be avoiding doing something because you're not good at it yet, too -- like I was veering away from making wrapped loops like they carried the Plague. But I needed to practice them, because I *needed* them to accomplish my goals.
Now I'm good at them, and I even like doing them. So I *am* following my heart
-- and I vanquished a fear (of wire). It can be good to meet your big challenges. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
But that can be good, if you don't put the thing aside forever. Things need a rest sometimes. Then you go back to it, and >poof< you can do it better. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
Me too -- I'm crazy for encased beads. But I like almost everything, in the right context, color, and form. It's art, so I can't say I like only encased, or only blue, or only-anything. I find there are always exceptions to my visual rules. ~~ Sooz
------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links
You hit it on the head Sooz. I'm trying to rid myself of those fears. I was actually enjoying making florals today. The ones that will be out of the kiln tomorrow are killer. Yummy pinks.
Very true and I put away my floral making for months. Now I'm ready for the challenge and I think I will only get better. I don't use a lot of tranparents so I really need to find out what works with what. After that the sky is the limit.
Unfortunately I do put away my paintings and never look back at them. It's a very bad habit and I'm going to break myself of doing that. I'm very tempermental when it comes to painting.
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