ABS has this fantastic mermaid, under the sea ( Sous La Mer) inspiration for their July Challenge and I was hoping that I could make something out of glass in my lampworking class for the challenge.
As you might had read in my last post, I struggled quite a lot with fire, literally burning a hole through my skirt ( and my skin in this process) and my thoughts being scattered all over the place as I was working on another project while planning a work-cation so I ended up without a mermaid inspired piece 🙁
While we were making the pieces, some of the participants came up with this idea of coloring our glass doodles with glass paints and alcohol inks. Our instructor asked us to try and I went one step further and used patina inks on glass.
The result is a oozy-doozy slighly opaque and textural to touch piece that looks like a fantasy piece which I thought resembled the polyps at the left bottom of this picture. So here it is my totally experimental handmade glass bead necklace. Lampworking veterans please excuse me as this is my first attempt as lampworking.
Sous La Mer necklace
Sous La Mer means under the sea in French. I was inspired by the tentacles and polyps in the visual to create the focal beads using clear borosilicate glass tubes which I have then colored with alcohol and patina inks giving a combination of opaque and transparent feeling to the piece. The focal is strung on to a fish scale finish silver leather cord (pointing to the shimmery scales of the mermaid) wrapped in a satin ribbon and accented with milky beads and chain. I used the muddy yellow, green and blue colors on the focal and I picked the pinkish red color from the picture (not in the palette) as my accents as I thought that the reds given as too strong for the design.
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| The Little Mermaid, 1911 by Edmund Dulac |
I hope you find it interesting
Cheers
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