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September 01, 2003
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i've been helping with the color mixing saga (see Corina's site for more details) and let me tell you - Copper Green makes all the reds and yellows turn into a really ugly brown color. mud. ugly. ick. waste of glass. don't ever mix copper green w/ colors 406-424. yikes!!
but I did get some coolio colors to mix - nile green and the turquoise/skyblue sets. some really nice seafoam greens and light teals result. so today wasn't a total loss...and besides, i've not sat down and done major color mixing like this before, so its great practice. I found that lopping off an inch of each color and using my stainless steel chop sticks works great - it doesn't cause me to melt more of one color or another, and it keeps the amount of glass small and managable. just like silky soft shiny hair. i've asked for more colors (i've done 16 today) and asked them to keep Copper Green out of the equation!
made a road trip to Heritage Glass yesterday and picked up a few things, nothing earthshattering. the only real new thing was some clear Vetrofond that I want to play with. more Capri blue from Checkglass, more Sage Opaque that was much darker than my last batch, 10 yards of silver wire to play with on beads, and some back-up pointed tweezers that Larry Scott uses. Molly gave me some clear frit so i can play with one of the techniques in the Spotlight..On Silver edition, even thoug it calls for Bullseye, i'm gonna try it with Moretti (since I have no bullseye frit or french vanilla white to use it with). I have the Bullseye sampler, but not all the rods came in the shipment, and i've not really sat down and played with it at all...maybe i'll get around to it one day...
Posted by Donner at September 1, 2003 10:12 AM