Stupid Bloody Woman

[effemess]

..... with a brain like a sieve. I wondered why all my 'pink' cane beads were red... you're supposed to encase clear with red and then yellow.. not just encase red with yellow... what a dumb ass I am....

[Rose]

Nope, not dumb at all. Experimenting can get you the neatest effects. Keep a notepad handy.

[effemess]

Well, red encased with warm yellow give you.......... wait for it........... red

[Bunyip]

Might strike a little different in the kiln, and you can try layering it over a clear base bead Also, try putting a layer of clear between the layer of red and yellow for different effects. Keep notes so you don't make something, love it and then promptly forget what you had done once you use up the cane.

[menty666]

That's supposed to give you pink? I would have guessed orange. Hmmph.

[AuntD]

Try striking the Warm Yellow a little bit; it's a silver color. Red plus Warm Yellow plus a little bit of strike = pink.

You didn't make a mistake by using a rod of red -- red over clear is still red. Red mixed with clear is transparent red, not pink. If you mix red with white, you'll get a pink, but it will be opaque. You know boro... what you see is not only not what you get, it's not even logical.



P.S. Burn the haze off, and then let it cool, and then strike it in a neutral flame.

[*StarleensStudio*]

8-10 mm clear rod cased with Ruby strike , then NS Yellow always gives me a nice pink. RS sides a little more to the ruby pink family. Play with Momka Scarlet and yellow vs ex lt yellow too. try out clear/ns ruby/ thin cobalt, last case of ex lt yellow. layer the color up in the order you wish for visual mixing to occur. Remember, glass is more than color and in art red and yellow make orange, heres da but... Boro glass is all about the chemistry. Chemistry and those ever so great batching change ups will kick ya in the ass when you least expect it. pffff. the clear you use is another source of color shift change ups. Sometimes in a good way, always in a bad way when an order is in the large kiln

I think it is the almost countless variables with boro that keeps me content. We can try to tame it, but it has that fantastic wild side If it's not a challenge why bother, but hey I bore easily... I am trying to not vent over GA warm yellow change ups over the last two years, and then its discontinuation... must not rant... must accept and move on... must accept singular passion. change is good, blah blah blah...................


~ Starleen

[AuntD]

Wait... warm yellow is discontinued? Seriously? That's... just not right. How can they discontinue warm yellow?

[gmkcpa]

How about: pink = Star White, Asian White or Borostix White well mixed with Poppy, Cherry, Red Crayon or Carmen Red, or Light Ruby, Ruby or Elvis Red?

Well Mixed = two 1" lengths of color twisted together, mashed together, mixed, pulled, scrunched together, twisted again and then pulled into a working rod?

Vary the proportions of white and red = every shade of pink possible. (And add some light or dark purple or Loki's Lipstick or orange, etc. for added interesting effects).