Archive for August 30th, 2007

Playing with Color

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Dragons eye bead I’ll be making a batch of these dragon’s eye beads this weekend. The basic structure of the bead is pretty simple – a sculpted eye outline with an indented area for the eye. The indented area gets filled with multiple thin layers of deep color (tinted liquid clay).

The fun part is choosing the colors. What color are the dragon’s scales? Is it a fierce dragon or even a t-rex (black or maybe red), or a gentle dragon (greens and blues). What will I use for the colors of the eye itself? Using several colors which shade into each other gives the eye much more depth and interest but it means no eye will ever be the same. So many choices – but these are the fun ones…

I love these eyes but they’re not for everyone. Some people find them too freaky :) But most people really like them.