DragonJools

OK - in the last post - I talked about Veiled Rubino, and there was an unworked rod, and I said there appeared to be a big difference in t...

I was struck by the sudden desire to make stuff in a tourmaline pink. When I reviewed the Double Helix RO (Rubino Oro - Ruby Gold), I compar...

Effetre's Transparent Electric Yellow is a striking color. Again - for those of you who have wandered into this blog by mistake and don...

I have blogged about Ghee before, rather a lot actually , and in this instance, making these bits on wire, it comes out rather well behave...

The aforementioned North Star Precision 104 glass, and the TAG - Trautman Art Glass - both lines of exotic, high-end art glasses manufacture...

I mentioned recently that Rocio Silver Mist was a colour made by Northstar - a company probably better known for their borosilicate glass. N...

Just more eye candy. Did these at the studio at BeadFX. Does the reduction ever pop! Wish it would stay like that in my kiln at home.

Juicy, juicy, juicy. Juicy Chartreusey. Quite a break from the greys, eh? This is a new colour from Creation is Messy   and it is de-l...

Rocio Silver Mist - a transparent medium (and very lovely) blue, that reduces to a lovely blue, metallic lustre. As must be standard for...

Not 50, merely 4 shades of grey. Even though I have long eschewed grey - I suddenly find myself with a hankering to use it. Go figure. Her...

CiM Duck Egg - which I can't find on their site, oddly - is an interesting greeny grey, a soft fog colour, and similar to copper green -...

Yet another run at Skylla. This time, using some clear encasing. This one, I encased the Skylla rod with clear, and got it very hot, and...

OK - I don't know what this is. The rods are highly textured, quite rough on the outside, and it is an opaque green with brownish overto...

It was in a bag labeled Eff 287  - which is Sediment. Other sites show Sediment as a streaky ivory, but this does match the last time I blo...

A couple of days ago - I showed you this ... And in my file of commercially made beads (which I shoot for the website over at BeadFX),...

What does it look like to make a bead? Well - a little like this. Show this to your friends that you haven't managed to convince to co...

CiM's Admantium , a deep grey - but a warm grey - with a hint of brown, rather than a cold, blue grey. Save

Copper Green - usually used for it's reactive properties, not it's own particular beauty, which on a smooth bead - can have it looki...

Generally - the primary problem with photography is the light, and getting enough of it. But in the case of iridescence or lustres or reduct...

I needed a transparent wild-lime green - a yellowy green - and couldn't find anything in the palette that was working for what I needed ...