Yin Yang bead?

[ajwhite]

Hi everyone!

Has anyone been successful making a good Yin Yang bead? I've been trying a half and half lentil and then adding extra blobs to the right and left of the line but it really isn't working.

Any ideas? Back to the torch....

Audra

[DawnT]

LOL I've been pondering this one too. I was wondering if some kind of swirling would work. Anyone else done this before? :-D

[Gail Joseph]

I'm not sure what became of my photos, but Ill try to take one tomorrow. I make a bead 1/2 and 1/2 of the two colors (actually, I make two beads right next to eachother, and then melt together. After it has rounded up I spot heat along the color line and with a fairly thick stringer in one of the colors I do a bit of a twist (maybe 1/4 turn?). It isn't perfect, but its the best I've come up with so far (I've also gone on to make it into a lentil, and have done it making a lentil first, then twisting). I have a potential customer whose log is a sun-gold and sea-blue yin and yange, and he wants me to make beads to fit his theme.

I'd love to hear other ideas, too!--Gail

[ajwhite]

I tried that too Gail - maybe my stringer wasn't thick enough because I didn't get enough pull/twist. When it was too hot I got too much of a twist. I'll try again with a thicker stringer and see..this may be one of those ppp things.

I'll let you know!

Audra

[Lara]

I'm not sure what became of my photos, but Ill try to take one tomorrow. I make a bead 1/2 and 1/2 of the two colors (actually, I make two beads right next to eachother, and then melt together. After it has rounded up I spot heat along the color line and with a fairly thick stringer in one of the colors I do a bit of a twist (maybe 1/4 turn?). It isn't perfect, but its the best I've come up with so far (I've also gone on to make it into a lentil, and have done it making a lentil first, then twisting). I have a potential customer whose log is a sun-gold and sea-blue yin and yange, and he wants me to make beads to fit his theme.

I'd love to hear other ideas, too!--Gail

Yeah, ditto here to what Gail said. If you want to use transparents, what I like to do is make a small barrel of white, then build up disks on each end of the white, now melt all this in. A white line will be pulled up from the barrel so you will have a white line between the 2 colors. If you build the disks tall enough, you will get a ROUND bead. Now do the twisting and you will have a ying/yang looking bead.

[rightbrainbeads]

Audra, I used to make small yin yang symbols on beads and had good luck laying down a glob of white, mashing it down and melting it in until it was flat, then putting a smaller dot/glob of intense black (has to be intense black so it doesn't turn purple on you) in the upper right 'corner' of the circle. I melted the black in a bit and mashed it down until it was the width that I wanted the fattest part of the black half to be, then I took a pick and pulled some of the black glass down and around to make the rest of it. Does that make any sense?!! With a little marvering you'll get a sharp, crisp yin yang symbol.

lynne

[ajwhite]

Well, I tried again last night and it didn't work - I can get a great half and half bead but then the twist screws it all up. Lynne - do you have a pic? I don't think I quite understand but let me see - I make any bead and put down a dot of white - smash in and melt flush then put a small dot of black - smash around until it is the right width and then try to pull part of it around? I'll try it this evening. This is getting very frustrating - I can't sculpt almost anything but this has got me :???:

Thanks!
Audra

[rightbrainbeads]

Yeah, it sounds like you've got it!! :grin:

No, I don't have any pics and my torch isn't set up now so I can make one. If you were making it on a lentil, the white would cover the whole lentil and then the black dot would be about half that amount of glass, mashed down a bit and pulled around in the shape of the yin yang symbol.