Intense Black reduction

[simvet02]

Is intense black suppose to reduce? I put some dots along the outside of a bead for color and I had rolled the bead in 'green envy' so when I went to reduce it the intense black dots turned a brilliant blue-green. I was surprised to see that.

Today I tried putting thick strings of the intense black on another bead, melted it in and tried reducing it over and over, never got the blue. Am I crazy or what?](*,)

All the little blue dots you see are the intense black. Pretty. I was trying to save a mistake. The wavy part was suppose to be light aqua which was suppose to show the stuff underneath according to a piece in Corina Tettinger's book. However, I think the color was light blue not aqua so it didn't work.

[kramdas]

You're not crazy-it's happened to me before, also on raised parts, but mine turned silver. My guess is reduction or fuming from the color it's sitting on....

[simvet02]

Hmmmm....like fuming from the green envy frit maybe? Interesting. I will have to try and get it to happen again.

thanks,

[eidyn]

sounds cool!

[kramdas]

Maybe....let us know what happens! I can't remember what colors I was working with when it happened to me, but it wasn't that one...

[artwhim]

Sounds like the green envy fumed it. If you just need a small amount of fuming on a bead you can use a rod of silver glass to create the fume by placing it in the bottom part of the flame. Because the silver glasses contain so much silver and fume so easily, it is really important to use good ventilation.

[Artistic License]

I have that happen when I use the Iris gold for raised detail on a bead. It seems to fume the other colors on the bead when I reduce it for the metallic shine.

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