I met a lady at a show yesterday who admired this bead:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7995373996_846394e37d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/51975739@N05/7995373996/)
She asked me to make her one similar in shades of pink or purple but with still with the surface reduction. HELP! I can get some great purples out of Kalypso but they are all encased. I would be grateful for any ideas before I spend a fortune in glass to recreate a £15 pendant! (I think this one was triton)
Carrie xx
Aurae's worth a try: can get it to go pinky-gold - might need multiple reduction cycles. You could try kalypso on the surface anyway and see what happens? Psyche gives dark purple/blue - try a light base for it?
I Haven't played with Aurea for a while, and it can go pinky .. just can't remember how I did it.
Try a small test bead and try reducing while it's cold and another when it's still warmish.
You could even possibly try helios with a pink encased base?
I thought of helios but the lady was adamant that she 'didn't do golds'! I also showed her some aurae over clear and this was too gold. May have to try aurae over other colours and see what I can get. My dayghter is home sick today so I've already lost a day when I could have been experimenting! :(
Carrie x
Boreas - the new DH one is more purple than Aurae, in a silvery kind of way ;D
Try Aurae over dark ivory.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8307/7995940474_a5495f9ee4.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77735282@N02/7995940474/)
ivory_aurae_bead (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77735282@N02/7995940474/) by Earthshine Lampwork Bead and Jewellery Design (http://www.flickr.com/people/77735282@N02/), on Flickr
The flowers were encased with lavender 081 but you could try it without.
Effetre silver purple reduces to give a lovely rich sheen :)
Do you mean the silver plum Gay? - I'd forgotten all about that! I've only got the dark but it's worth a go. Looks like I may get some torch time tomorrow as DD is desperate to go back to school for a school trip tomorrow.
Carrie x