Ranasp's uneven progression

[Ranasp]

So I started lampworking just last summer. Some friends were torching in their garage while our SCA meeting is going on. (Society for Creative Anachronism, basically mega nerds that love historic and do-it-yourself shit, I love it) They pull me over, sit my ass down, and I make my first bead, and am thereafter hooked.


As you can see it's teardrop shaped, uneven, and has two bubbles in it that I had no idea I had put in. I made just that one bead that day since I had to run, but that allowed it to settle in my mind...

Next few sessions, I experiment a bit. Mixing colors, seeing how stringers act, figuring out how to make beads round or oval instead of egg shaped.



A few sessions later, I start getting good enough to get mad when the bead has a mind of its own. I also discover using the pick, and how smashing and dragging color around then encasing it can result in some pretty funky effects, and that it's pretty fun for dragging surface colors around too.



I'll stop there for now as this is pretty pic heavy.