MARCH 2011 - COLOUR OF THE MONTH CHALLENGE ... WINNER NOW UP !!!

[Trudi]

Super beads, the pink and green look great together!!

These are PA over anice white

2 of your 5 a Day (1) by Glittering Prize - Trudi, on Flickr


Fern Gully by Glittering Prize - Trudi, on Flickr

[sea-thistle]

one of my favourite colours too!

[helbels]

Ok, well I gave it a go and can honestly say I'm not feeling the love for Green in general, but Poison Apple in particular!

I only had one rod of this colour, so had to be thrifty -  the centre lentil is Poison Apple, and half of the smallest lentils are also Poison Apple...

[awrylemming]

You have certainly done the green justice though Helen - they're lovely beads.

[Amber]

Ooh Helen, I could almost eat those 

[k00m]

Poison Apple, White and Transparent Sage Green (which was being scummy, but I didn't notice until it was out of the kiln. Boo)

[helbels]

That's a nice colour combo!!

[Kalorlo]

This one is inspired by Trudi's beads. I wanted to see what would happen if you also added mink to the mix, so this is poison apple and mink over anise white. My anise has gone more opaque than hers, and the centre between the colours has gone a bit curdled.



Poison apple with encased raku carrot murrini on the left. Look at the bright pink colour! Also yellow dots and SIS. On the other side I reduced and encased my murrini, just to see what would happen. This wasn't what I expected! But I was right that it probably wouldn't be a good idea. (I hadn't encased these murrini at all before - I always keep them on the surface, so this was an experiment).



These have a twistie of cocoa and latte macchiato and matching murrini, plus anise dots. I think the dots are a bit much - the twistie wasn't very visible when it was hot, so I overdecorated it. The murrini are a bit more interesting on this background, but they're still very muted.

[Kaz]

Lovely beads!
Raku doesn't like reduction, just striking (hence the pink colours from the hot clear) - it just goes murky!
Kazx

[Kalorlo]

I know, I just wanted to try it for completeness' sake 

I was actually expecting the whole thing to just go silver. But it didn't!

[sclar]

A simple offering from me poison apple with flowers

[flowerjasper]

poison apple looks great etched btw,

[Louise Menzies]

Here' mine!!!


IMAG0003 by Just Desire Jewellery, on Flickr

[helenfc]

oooh Louise, that is so fresh, makes me think of Festivals

[Louise Menzies]

Its is quite BOLD for me lol, but seems at the sun is shinning