Day Six - Fancy Eye Beads

Neither red nor black in evidence today!

Today's beads represent a bit of experimentation that isn't immediately obvious.  I used a lighter cobalt blue for the base bead than I used for the blue layer in the stratified eyes.  This is because the white glass makes the thin layer of transparent cobalt blue look much lighter than it looks as a core bead.  If I used the same blue for both, the eyes wouldn't visually match the base bead and past efforts have shown that it looks mismatched.  The irony is that you have to mismatch the glass to make it look matched with this bead!

Also, notice that the two beads up front have slightly different colors in their cores?  That's because the one on the left is wound around a small core of clear glass to try to get a little more transparency and match the core to the eyes a little better.  It works, but is enough of a hassle that it isn't really worth doing.  The clear is much stiffer than the blue.  White is possibly the easiest-flowing glass color I have in my palette at the moment.

Side note:

You may have noticed that I've posted 6 days of beads all on the same day.  That's because I made all of these beads over several days and have only today gotten around to starting a blog to share them with the world.  The days referred to are the days of the original challenge of the 21 day bead boot camp.