Lampwork Tutorials: How to use Silver Foil Secrets!

Lampwork Tutorials using Silver Foil… Are ya loving exploring Silver in these videos??

TIP: When we cover something new in a lampwork tutorial video, practice, practice, practice the technique. Then, immediately, start incorporating the technique into whatever you are doing with your beads at the moment.

Use the technique as a background, part of the design, a new color you create with the technique… whatever! Explore new territory. It’s kind of like doodling. Allow the right side of your brain to explore, play and see where it takes you.

Lampwork techniques have no value unless you harness them to express what you want to say!

Lampwork Tutorials videos using Silver Foil!

Lampwork tutorials below…

#1 video shows results on beads using silver foil and then #2 video has step by step, watch over my shoulder, how I did the techniques.

TIP…Understanding what you are looking at is the secret to using silver foil. In this video, I’ll explain the many faces of silver foil reactions…(Oh yeah, at the end of the video I said that we covered Silver leaf…oops…I meant Silver FOIL!… s-0-r-r-y! ) :)

Now the step by step video that you can watch over my shoulder to learn how to use silver foil. Pay attention to type of flames, how much I heat the glass, when I burn off the silver foil… it’s in the details!

OK…So what do you think? Ready to start burning some money? :)

Here’s some ideas to ponder…

1. What about using silver wire? Remember, it’s got to be fine silver wire. What about different thicknesses of silver wire?

2. What about taking silver leaf or silver foil and covering dark ivory with it and pulling a stringer? That’s called silvered stringers…OoooLaLa… that’s really pretty on a bead.

3. What if you combined all the different lampwork tutorials techniques on silver I did demos on in one bead?

4. What if you experimented with different base colors with silver to see what chemical reactions and colors you get?

5. How can you take these techniques and blend them with your signature bead?

6. Stuck for ideas? Do you have my lampwork tutorials 101-103 for more in depth information and techniques?

If you have my tutorials…Use a different silvered technique as the background for each tutorial bead. That way, you’re practicing the tutorial beads in each tutorial and you’re also making it uniquely your own! WAY COOL!!!

Enjoying?? Want some video lampwork tutorials on silvered stringers and using silver wire???

*Namaste,

Patsy

Starfishes in a Sea World using 5 silver techniques! Click on Starfish for more details.

Below is an abstract study in color harmony in glass (I teach color theory & color schemes in my lampwork tutorials 101-103)

*The gesture Namaste represents the belief that there is a Divine spark within each of us that is located in the heart chakra. The gesture is an acknowledgment of the soul in one by the soul in another. Nama means bow, as means I, and te means you. Therefore, namaste literally means “bow me you” or “I bow to you.”