This amazing photo was taken by an artist from etsy: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5169053 It was taken in Ankgor Wat Cambodia and is the inspirational part of the etsy glass artists February challenge. First of all I didn't intend to make any beads today. I changed my mind and was going to go out for an hour or so and make some spring/summer colored accent beads. Simple and quick. Apparently my glass muse had other plans for me :)
I had forgotten that I had left a copy of the picture out in the studio. I saw it lying there and Suddenly my mind was full of color and ideas. I started torching away and dancing with the music on the radio~ Creative and full of energy I used up all of the silver foil pieces I had pre-cut for another project. I wound hot molten glass onto mandrel after mandrel, layer upon layer rolled on some silver foil and burnished it in. Flamed the foil off and then reduced it back to a shine, added a dab of frit, heated the whole thing to molten again and shaped each one before popping them one by one into the kiln. Then I worked on those accent beads for a while :)
I cannot wait to open the kiln in the morning!