Lampwork Glass - More Dots! Bead Class (06Feb2019) - Part 2

Finally getting back to this post and logging all the work we did from this class.  My beads are on the left and Sergei's giganto-beads are on the right.


Dot placement and scaling:

This part of the class was mostly getting back into the practice of placing dots on the bead.  We working on angling the dots along the top and bottom of the bead.  Something that was very helpful - when placing dots, do so slowly and if you think you miiiiight be able to squeeze in two dots into a space, the reality is you probably should only put one.

Stacked dots:

This is putting one dot on top of another dot.  This works best if you stack a dark color on top of a lighter one.  The stacking bead below was one of my favorites of the day.  This was a little weird as I kept the bead out of the flame too long at some point and the bead actually cracked during the dot process.  I was able to remelt the bead to close the crack well enough to finish the bead.  The instructor was impressed and said "Well, you can enjoy it for a while at least.  Nice save!"

My green bead also shows different dot placement as well as stacked dots.

This was my favorite bead.  You can see the cracks in the bead release in two places.

Pierced dots:

This is the same process of making normal dot except they are poked with a stylus.  Left as is, they sort of look like an octopus sucker.  Alternatively when you add a transparent glass dot over it, it created a trapped "bubble" effect.  It's really neat.

Masking:

Masking is where you add overlapping dots (of the same base bead color) over an existing dot to create a shape.  It's easiest to make crescents, but you can keep layering and masking to created all different shapes.  This was at the tail end of our class.