How do you Create? - Page 2

EchoTantuli · #31 2014-07-20, 3:02pm

I couldn't vote because I use all 5 methods.

hyperT · #32 2014-07-21, 3:56am

I have "Visions" the 60's were good to me!

Cherri · #33 2014-07-21, 5:56am

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Originally Posted by fcfmountain

I posted a free tutorial on my friends website that is designed for lampworkers who want to understand ,combine and add a little planning to their color selection. It is 25 pages and involves actual work to help grasp and understand how to consistently come out with a higher percentage of beads you jump up and down about. Color matters, intensly. You can still create free and on the fly, you will just reach for different selections. Or you can preselect, bundle, plan and then sit down at the torch with the muse looking over your shoulder.
Sorry I don't post much to make this link available, you get burned by the 'liberal thought police' and it makes you not want to post anything anytime.

Where is the link please.
Thank you

Mina · #34 2014-07-21, 1:12pm

Cherri, I was wondering that same thing

Geary_Johns · #35 2014-07-24, 10:37am

I start by sketching out what the bead should look like and the finished jewelry piece. I find that it helps me in the fabrication if I know what the end result is going to be.

Floorkasp · #36 2014-07-25, 2:01am

I actually found that I am more of a jewelry designer than a bead designer. So often I will think of a necklace, and then I will make the beads for that necklace. Most of my pieces so far are quite repetitive. No focals, just 'plain' beads with something going on. I can make a whole string of just lampworked beads, nothing else.
The colors are my main inspiration. I will think of a color theme, and just start picking all the glass I need. I work like that with my beadwork as well. I have a lot of different glass colors, and have plenty to choose from. For example, I am now working on a piece made up of hundreds of small headpins, with the color theme 'fire'. I have about 75 different glass rods that I am using for it. Yellows, orange, red, some black and blue.

I recently started working more on focals. Great fun, but they don;t really work with my jewelry design. So now, I am trying to find a good way to use these. Probably going to use most as pendants on a beaded cord.

Anyway, that's how I work. Great to read how you all come up with ideas and how you work.