Finding New Color Combinations for your Artistry; Keep Your Mojo Workin'

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  A couple of years ago, I began thinking about making a presentation called 'Keep Your Mojo Workin' about some of the many ways I find inspiration when things just don't seem to be clicking. I ended up with pages and pages of notes and more ideas than seem able to fit in my wee pea brain, but here is one that I find extremely cool.

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  Find something you've made (in this case a bead, of course) or even a photo whose color combos you really like. Put that photo into a photo editing program such as photoshop and modify it. In photoshop, go to 'adjust color' in the 'enhance' drop down menu, then go to 'adjust hue/saturation' in that drop down menu. Then go to town moving the 'hue' bar up and down. From subtle color differences to radical changes, I guarantee you'll find some color combos you never would have thought of! Now to match the colors with glass rods....

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Lilac glass recipe

This is just a quickie! A customer wanted me to make her a couple of masks in a lilac color. All of the purple glass I had was just too dark to work, so I started pulling rods out and holding them up to the light to see what I could do. The winner? Moretti  Light blue #052 over alabastro pink # 372 ( I think- darn- it could have been 376- both will make a nice purple. Try 'em both!). I would not recommend using this for a whole bead as I think there is a slight amount of incompatibility going on there, but the color was a lovely light purple blue.