I love hearts, so Valentine's day is always my favorite holiday. I love to collect hearts. I have a friend who must have 10-15 rocks that are all heart shaped. Some are thin and very smooth and others are very textural. Lots of my hearts are glass. Someday I'll take a picture of some of them. For today here is a picture of a heart I made out of glass. It's in my Etsy shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop/kybeadmaker I used tiny little stringers of glass to make the flowers. I developed a technique several years ago that makes the flowers look like miniature watercolor paintings. It's my favorite process to use in beadmaking.
I wish I liked the color red because red hearts with flowers on them would probably be pretty, but I just can't make myself like the color . When I make beads I am driven entirely by color. Sometimes it almost seems like the beads tell me what colors they want to be. If you talk to other beadmakers they will tell you the same thing. We sit down at the torch thinking we know what we want to make but somewhere along the way the bead changes from our original concept and becomes something entirely different than our original plan....sometimes better, and unfortunately sometimes much worse :(.. I'll show you some pictures of those some day too.
I wish I liked the color red because red hearts with flowers on them would probably be pretty, but I just can't make myself like the color . When I make beads I am driven entirely by color. Sometimes it almost seems like the beads tell me what colors they want to be. If you talk to other beadmakers they will tell you the same thing. We sit down at the torch thinking we know what we want to make but somewhere along the way the bead changes from our original concept and becomes something entirely different than our original plan....sometimes better, and unfortunately sometimes much worse :(.. I'll show you some pictures of those some day too.
You know, because I've told you at least 1,000 times, that your watercolor technique amazes me every time I see it and always makes me smile.
ReplyDeleteI'm also not a big "red" fan.