Thursday, November 12, 2009

Working on Cabochons in the Storm

I have been working on a new batch of cabochons while home since the current Nor'easter we are experiencing has closed the schools. Here are some quick pictures of them as of this morning.


I am doing snowflakes for some winter themed pendants along the same lines of the one I showed last time. I have been trying to mix some dichroics that will reflect winter colors. I'm not too sure of my success in that, but I do like the results I am getting so far.






















All of the green cabs are done with the same powder on the same black clay. It seems that they each are just a bit different in color though. I have heard the the same sort of thing can happen with dichroic glass. Some of it is probably different thicknesses in aplication of the powder.

Here are a few shots of some of the dichroic shifts I am getting in these. As usual it is being tricky to get good photographs of the colors. The color of these when seen straight on is actually more the golden green that shows in the pictures above. The kind of icy blue that shows when seen from the side is just about right though.
















































The one below is not a winter theme, but I love the colors. The shift from purple to chocolate brown can be pretty subtle, but I can wait to work up a setting to show off the colors.


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