Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Margie and Me Mosaic of Color Challenge
I worked on a beaded bead tutorial for my Mosaic of Color challenge piece. For loads of details hop over to La Bella Joya. This week's challenge was to use either the color palette or the feel of the theme inspiration:
I tried to get a little of each in my beads. I wanted to include the cobalt and a hint of green, but everything started to get a little crazy with too many colors. I do a bit better when I work with a limited palette. Maybe I just like playing with shape and texture? I really love to wear many colors, but like to work with as few as possible.
These beaded beads started on 10mm stone rounds. The pattern tutorial is by Quimeras de Náyades and can be found at her Etsy. If you look at the bead she shows you will wonder why my beaded beads look different. No, it rally is the pattern I used, but I added an extra layer of beads to each vertices in the dodecahedron. Quimeras shows this in the tutorial, but not in the pictures.
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I love it Lois!!! I think you really captured the mosiac-y feel with those beaded beads!
ReplyDeleteAaaaaaamazing! What a beautiful piece!
ReplyDeleteLois, this is absolutely stunning! I also had HUGE problems with nailing down the colors and make them match. But it all fell into place. :-)
ReplyDeleteThese are GORGEOUS! Quimeras makes some of the beads beads. I've done her Herrera bead before and loved it. Thanks Lois!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!! How funny that several of us were inspired to make beaded beads for this challenge. I love your interpretation.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful necklace! Excellent work! Thank you very much, I love it!
ReplyDeleteThis is just stunning! I love the beaded beads with the orangey contrasting band. You have a wonderful eye for color.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Shirley