Beading with Cabochons: Simple Techniques for Beautiful by Jamie Cloud Eakin

With this gloriously photographed and illustrated handbook handy, beaders can create awe-inspiring jewellery. it is the merely present, entire consultant to operating with cabochons--a flat piece of rock or mineral--and it covers all of the fundamentals, besides quite a number new artistic strategies and scorching tendencies. discover which instruments and fabrics to take advantage of, which beads paintings most sensible, and the way to wrap them around the stones. Craft grew to become, pointed, twisted, brick sew, ruffled, or scalloped edges, or upload ornamental fringe. For anything dramatic, mix a couple of cabochon in one piece. Or, rather than normal stone, use dichroic glass or different came upon items. Make a glittering brooch, funky bracelets, a wearable paintings necklace, and different showstoppers.

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Sometimes during a day I may have spent more time looking at pictures on my desk (and looking at students’ pictures, when I used to teach) than looking at ‘real life’. Even when I am looking at the real world my fingers twitch as if I am making a drawing of it in my mind. It is a world of its own when you are making a picture. It is that creation of a new world by drawing on a piece of blank paper that is irresistible. It is the thrill of the unexpected. Although you authorise what you do – it is the surprises that occur when making an image that hold your interest.

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