Looking for a tutorial

[Maqea]

Hi!
I have fallen in love with Nina Eagles beads and I would like to learn how her lovely organic beads are made. Anyone that can point me in the right direction for a tutorial or someplace I can learn this?

Three beads made by Nina Eagle
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[Lorraine Chandler]

Ask Nina if she has any tutorials.:waving:

[BeadBlossoms]

What she said :)

[neagle]

Hi, Maqea,
Thank you for the lovely remarks!
Sent you a convo back, :D.

[Maqea]

I have been working hard at my torch making about 15 beads to try to figure this out. :)
Of those 15 beads I managed to get two of them in the right direction, the two drops in the middle. One bead just had its on life and I like how it turned out, second from the left. All the other beads are as those on the ends. Either too much black or too little. I like how the orange bead on the left turned out but most of the beads with too much black are just muck.
I have to practise more to get the crispness and vibrant colors of Ninas beads. :D

Do you have any advice on geting the black right?

One side
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The other side
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[neagle]

Those are really pretty! The center one looks like yellow marble-cool!
A tip for the intense black-use the tiniest bit. I melt a tiny gather on the end of an intense black stringer and touch it ever so slightly to the edge of the bead and roll the bead really quickly while pulling the finest thread of black out. This black will swallow everything up if there is too much.

Certain glasses will not web with intense black. I used to do little test beads to see if the black would web.

Hope that helps. :)

[Maqea]

Thank you so much Nina!

I use hair thin stringers of IB and make one turn with it arond the bead in the center. I will give your way a try to se if I can get the IB to be even thinner.

It might be as you say that since different glass webb differently thats what make my beads so different. I will make smal beads too to se what colors and how they webb with IB. Thats a good idea. Why did I not come to think of that myself? :D

I also think I have to make the beads longer and not little fat tubes and drops.

Hugs :waving:

[jaci]

I know there is a tutorial on
E somewhere to make beads similar to those... It's hidden in the tutorial section I think. Might take so e time searching....