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Process-beads

By knicy | April 8, 2009

I found this project to be a big challenge. I understood the concept perfectly, however we were shown so many examples it was hard not to copy. I had decided to use beads because I had so many in my boxes of crafty stuff at home. Originally I had silvery seed beads and was stringing them onto clear plastic string. I had no idea where I was going with it. I went online and looked up synonyms for the word bead and came up with this list.

droplet, blob, bean, bubble, dab,dot, driblet, drop, globule, grain, particle, pea, pill, shot, speck, spherule, stone, pearl, astragal, driplet, talus.

With the list in hand I thought it might provoke something….no luck, still lost. Finally Clare suggested beading something that wouldn’t normally be beaded. With this advice and the synonyms I came up with an idea. I was going to create a long long long string of silver beads on wire. With that I was going to make a wine glass of sorts. I would do the same thing with red beads and have it look like wine was spilling out and onto the floor…..beading up….

Once I got the beads on the long wire, I struggled to get them to hold the glass shape, it would hold the curve but not the form. Time for a new idea. I sat playing with the beaded wire for a couple hours and even let a friend play with it hoping she might do something that might stimulate my imagination….nope. Eventually I thought about making a bunch of circles in silver and connect them with small red circles….that idea seemed very 2-d to me and I wanted something 3-d.

Something made me think of sea anenome and I began cutting the wire into smaller pieces…they still had the curl from the wine glass attempts and playing with it. I liked how it looked hanging there, the way it sparkled in the light. I decided it needed more color and I found some green and purple beads. I thought it needed a variety in lengths. So in the end, this is what happened. I really like it and will probable hang it somewhere in my house when it comes home.