Clio glass

I started playing with my new glass I received this week. The glass I was most excited to try was clio. It's a glass by Double Helix. This glass is a striking/reducing glass. Which means you need to heat/cool the glass repeatedly followed by a few seconds in a gas rich flame. If you overdue the heat or the time in the gas flame you get a muddy icky colour. It is very easy to over due the heat, this is a tricky glass. When I decided to buy it I was worried I would be wasting my money as this is an expensive glass. (85$ for a pound! I only bought a couple if rods)  If you get the timing right you get rewarded with very dynamic colours. The glass starts out a transparent amber, check out what happens when it's heated.

this is clio over clear ( sadly this one has a touch
of muck on the back but it does't seem to take away from the bead)

clio over clear with mood swing grit

clio over white

clio capped with black

clio over white

clio over pumpkin

clio over transparent yellow

 

















These beads turned out really well. I did a lot of research oh how to use clio glass last night and this morning before tackling it.  Apparently clio is wonderful over transparent orange, but I have nothing like that colour so I tired yellow and red. The red bead ended up look very blue, still nice, but also have a few mucky areas, so there is no picture here.  I LOVE the pink and orange tones this glass give off. When over reduced you get some of the blue/green tones. Now I have to decide what to do with these beads. Any ideas?

troll beads - clio over clear and over white

Here is an update on one of the technics I have in my goals. The implosion petal bead. This one turned out a bit like a pine cone.  The blue one is a hollow bead. I didn't do any stringer work today as the clio beads took up most of the day to make. I think I will post a few of them on a craft site instead of trying to make something with all of them.

I will probably turn this bead into some kind of long woodsy necklace.

Now that I understand how this technic, I need to work on the shape of the bead. I am imagining a necklace full of different colour and sizes of this bead.  

  

Let me know which bead is your favourite!