So I was practising dots today, and I made some green beads and put purple raised dots on them. I have just taken them out of the kiln, and the dots are all gold. I like them, but I don't know what purple it was, can anyone help?
Could it have been DH Aurae, transparent, looks a bit like amethyst?
Sounds like aurae to me too
I don't think I have any of this, the rods I have used today are labelled
Reichenbach pink lady
Chalcedony
Effetre purple
Effetre amethyst
Reichenbach Iris Violet
Could it have been the Effetre Purple? I have some and love it because it gives some lovely ranges of strippy colour. However, I work on a minor and oxycon and because I'm impatient I often work with a slightly reducing flame to get the extra heat. I often find that the purple then has a metalic sheen with a brown/gold tinge. I don't particularly like to effect so end up etching those beads to get rid of it. Can be handy occasionally though....!?!? :-\ :-\ ???
Julia
Iris violet reduces, but I haven't got gold out of it, and it's not a transparent? Purple I usually get a kind of muddy silver grey when it reduces/reacts. Perhaps you've had a rod of aurae mixed in somehow?
What about new violet? I get some weird and wonderful reactions with this one from time to time especially if I work it too hot
my vote would be for the effetre purple too, mine sometimes gets a goldy coloured bit on the end of the rod after i have finished melting it...but i have no idea why and i've never had it do that on a bead!
yep, I get a gold sheen sometimes on effetre purple
Quote from: MadelineBunyan on January 27, 2012, 09:25:06 AM
yep, I get a gold sheen sometimes on effetre purple
And me, more often than I would like tbh, but sometimes it's fab!
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Just so you can see... The front purple bead is Effetre Purple with the metalic sheen. As I said I'm not keen but then I intended to etch these when I made them so they will clean up nicely.
J x
does the cillit bang not take it off if you dont want it there? although they would look lovely etched.