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Beginner Lampwork tips from Facebook

Beginner Lampwork tips from Facebook

April 26, 2013 | by | Comments Off on Beginner Lampwork tips from Facebook

A few weeks back we asked our Facebook friends for some helpful tips for lampwork beginners. If you have a tip or technique you would like to share, post it on our page Frantz Art Glass Facebook Fan Page. Thanks to all that participated. Annie Kuhn Keep your fingers out of the fire. Kelly Taylor Kruggel Beginners Tip: Do Not Be Afraid. Barbara Desvaux de Marigny As a beginner it would have helped me if I had understood how important it is to the various techniques to be able to “read” the temperature of the glass bead. Once I learnt
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Categories: lampworking techniques.
Tags: Beginner tips, facebook, and Safety.
Bead Photography Tip: All white background tip

Bead Photography Tip: All white background tip

May 30, 2012 | by | Comments Off on Bead Photography Tip: All white background tip

I like shooting  beads on a white background. It provides a uniformed look with other photos, background colors don’t interfere and it allows me to easily isolate the the bead in Photoshop for compositions like ads or banners. But one problem I come across from time to time is losing the details in the edge of the  bead. This usually happens because the bead itself is pale and it looks like the  white is swallowing the bead. After some experimenting I came across a simple solution.  I place  a large piece of black cardboard behind it out or frame. By
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Categories: Bead Photography Tutorial, Lampworking, lampworking techniques, and Promotion.
Tags: Bead Photography Tutorial, Effetre, and lampworking Tips and Tricks.
Photography tip for shooting clear dichroic

Photography tip for shooting clear dichroic

March 28, 2012 | by | Comments Off on Photography tip for shooting clear dichroic

After photographing  some Dichroic Scraps and I discovered something I wanted to share. The Dichroic Scraps will be on sale in the Fun House so they needed some photos. The scarps were of dichroic on clear. I had a problem was when I was photographing them on white I was loosing all detail. So what I did was place a black piece of foam-core out of frame to see if I could get a little contrast and something really cool happened. The color on the Dichroic Scraps jumps out.   Here is what append when I placed a black piece
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Categories: Bead Photography Tutorial.
Tags: 104 C.O.E. sheet glass, 104 Clear glass, Bead Photography Tutorial, beadmaking, clear glass, dichroic, Dichroic Photography, Effetre, and lampworking Tips and Tricks.
Torso Beads by Joy Munshower

Torso Beads by Joy Munshower

March 8, 2012 | by | Comments Off on Torso Beads by Joy Munshower

One of our customers, Joy Munshower, posted some wonderful torso beads made with the Effetre glass rod colors ( Sunset, Alexandrite, Green Tea, Earth, Dark Ivory, and Neptune) and Vetrofond glass rod ( Topaz ODD ). They were such great examples of these colors I thought I would share them in this blog. The murrini used were by Donna Millard   I would like to see this bead in person because Effetre Alexandrite shifts hue slightly with different light. This Green Tea bead looks like it was sculpted out of a Marble. For more images check out her Facebook page.
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, and lampworking techniques.
Tags: 104 COE glass, 104 glass rods, beadmaking, Beadmaking tips, beads, Effetre, flameworking, inspiration, Lampworking, lampworking Tips and Tricks, and Vetrofond.
CiM / Messy Color Has Four New Colors! (3-29-11)

CiM / Messy Color Has Four New Colors! (3-29-11)

March 29, 2011 | by | Comments Off on CiM / Messy Color Has Four New Colors! (3-29-11)

Oh Boy, its spring and Messy Color has come out with some wonderful new colors to add to their palette.  There are two transparent and two opal colors and they are call Rainforest, Azure, Atlantis and Appletini. Rainforest – 511499 Appletini     – 511497 Atlantis       – 511598 Azure          – 511500   These new colors are yummy, yummy, yummy and I had a blast melting them to find out how they work when I made them into beads. I made beads with silver foil cores that were encased with the two transparent colors Azure and Appletini and they came out great.  I
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, and Lampworking.
Tags: 104 COE glass, beads, CiM, flameworking, flameworking glass review, Lampworking, and Messy Color.
What is a Cotisso?

What is a Cotisso?

March 15, 2011 | by | 3 Comments

What is a Cotisso? Having never heard the name Cotisso before, I had to do some research to find out what they were talking about at the Effetre factory.  It seems that this is the name they use to refer to a chunk of glass that here in the U.S is called glass cullet. So why am I talking about cotisso’s (A.K.A. cullet)?  Because when Mike went over to Europe last October, he got the factory to let him pick out a bunch of different colors of these intriguing chunks of glass and Frantz Art Glass is now offering some
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, and Promotion.
Tags: Effetre, flameworking glass review, Glass Art, and Rocks.
How to get the Perfect Clear 104 COE Glass

How to get the Perfect Clear 104 COE Glass

December 23, 2010 | by | 3 Comments

I am writing about getting a perfect clear again because I still get many requests for what is a perfect 104 COE clear. I have found that it doesn’t matter so much who makes the clear glass rods as much as it matters if the rods are clean or not.
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, and lampworking techniques.
Tags: 104 Clear glass, clear encasement, and pickling technique.
Creative Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere

Creative Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere

November 11, 2010 | by | Comments Off on Creative Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere

This may become a recurring theme of mine, but I think it is important that people know how the creative process can manifest itself to motivate an artist to generate a particular piece of art.
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Categories: 104 COE Glass Review, Flameworking 104 Glass, Lampworking, and lampworking techniques.
Tags: dichroic, glass beads, inspiration, Kiffa beads, and Lampworking.
How to create a DVD cover in Photoshop.

How to create a DVD cover in Photoshop.

November 5, 2010 | by | Comments Off on How to create a DVD cover in Photoshop.

I just wrapped up my Photoshop for Lampworkers DVD and just finished the cover artwork. I want to show you the process of how I created a cover. I thought it would be helpful to those of you who want to create your own tutorials, Ads or promotional graphics like fliers, ads or web graphics. My Goal for the design was simple, clean but not boring.
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Categories: Bead Photography Tutorial, photoshop for beadmakers, and Promotion.
Tags: DVD cover design, Photoshop for Bead Makers, Photoshop Tutorail, and Video.