Better Than A Stick In Your Eye
So I'm there looking at an 80% off sale at an online bead/craft shop and...
I am continually amazed at how UGLY so many lampworked beads and pendants are. Maybe I'm amazed because I know how beautiful it is possible for this particular artform to be, so there's a large dollop of disappointment in my surprise. But seriously, who in their right minds would consider any of the following to be pretty? It's like they took random bits of glass and melted them, swirled them a bit and chucked them into a silicon mould. Which quite possibly they did. Likewise, with the beads, it's again the random colours that get me. Just splodges of ugliness.
Ugly pendants:
aqua blue rectangle with copper glitter and two yellow flower-things
nice-shaped fishes with swirls of completely random colour
even their mothers wouldn't love these fish
squiggle, a row of random flower-things, another squiggle in a completely different colour, and back it with copper glitter
chuck a handful of random colours and make them zig-zag
smother with silver and copper glitter and random black lines
it's a swirl - that makes it pretty, doesn't it?
if you draw random lines, that will be pretty, won't it?
Ugly beads:
pale green, and pink, and rusty red
stripes and dots in hideous colour combinations
more screamingly wrong colour combinations
it's the red and teal that gets me
let's do some random squiggles and dots in colours that do not go well together
a wedding-cake of one colour too many
someone likes red and orange dots
take a perfectly fine dark-reddish purple, and sprinkle it with dots of yellow, red and blue and smudge them a bit
It's the colours that really get me, I think. Some of them are so bad I wince at them. Others aren't so much ugly as Utterly Boring. I mean, really, blue hearts with black polka-dots? What were they thinking? Though if they were made in a sweatshop in India or China, they were probably thinking of their next meal. Which then makes all the blurbs about "lovingly handcrafted by skilled craftsmen" a bit over the top, doesn't it?
See... I love lampwork when it can be so pretty...
Pretty pendants:
waves of copper over brown
hearts bursting with flowers
more opening flowers
an elegant corkscrew of black and silver
sssssinuous ssssnake
twirly-whirly
beautiful blue butterfly
Pretty beads:
green wrapped in glittery brown
bronze and blue, an unexpected but working combo
twisty black and copper
deep amber and green, with swirling teardrops of mint and cream, with a touch of lavender
feathery pastel leaves wrapped around deep red; somehow it works
marbled shades of blue
whirlpools of cream, brown and green, with a deep blue background
are they leaves and flowers, or abstract swirls? light green and rose-pink over a pastel-blue background
mmmmint with marbled amber
shades of grey and black and white and silver, and TWIST
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I am continually amazed at how UGLY so many lampworked beads and pendants are. Maybe I'm amazed because I know how beautiful it is possible for this particular artform to be, so there's a large dollop of disappointment in my surprise. But seriously, who in their right minds would consider any of the following to be pretty? It's like they took random bits of glass and melted them, swirled them a bit and chucked them into a silicon mould. Which quite possibly they did. Likewise, with the beads, it's again the random colours that get me. Just splodges of ugliness.
Ugly pendants:
aqua blue rectangle with copper glitter and two yellow flower-things
nice-shaped fishes with swirls of completely random colour
even their mothers wouldn't love these fish
squiggle, a row of random flower-things, another squiggle in a completely different colour, and back it with copper glitter
chuck a handful of random colours and make them zig-zag
smother with silver and copper glitter and random black lines
it's a swirl - that makes it pretty, doesn't it?
if you draw random lines, that will be pretty, won't it?
Ugly beads:
pale green, and pink, and rusty red
stripes and dots in hideous colour combinations
more screamingly wrong colour combinations
it's the red and teal that gets me
let's do some random squiggles and dots in colours that do not go well together
a wedding-cake of one colour too many
someone likes red and orange dots
take a perfectly fine dark-reddish purple, and sprinkle it with dots of yellow, red and blue and smudge them a bit
It's the colours that really get me, I think. Some of them are so bad I wince at them. Others aren't so much ugly as Utterly Boring. I mean, really, blue hearts with black polka-dots? What were they thinking? Though if they were made in a sweatshop in India or China, they were probably thinking of their next meal. Which then makes all the blurbs about "lovingly handcrafted by skilled craftsmen" a bit over the top, doesn't it?
See... I love lampwork when it can be so pretty...
Pretty pendants:
waves of copper over brown
hearts bursting with flowers
more opening flowers
an elegant corkscrew of black and silver
sssssinuous ssssnake
twirly-whirly
beautiful blue butterfly
Pretty beads:
green wrapped in glittery brown
bronze and blue, an unexpected but working combo
twisty black and copper
deep amber and green, with swirling teardrops of mint and cream, with a touch of lavender
feathery pastel leaves wrapped around deep red; somehow it works
marbled shades of blue
whirlpools of cream, brown and green, with a deep blue background
are they leaves and flowers, or abstract swirls? light green and rose-pink over a pastel-blue background
mmmmint with marbled amber
shades of grey and black and white and silver, and TWIST
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