Implosion Pendants - Results

First, the pendants:


This one was black and silver cinnamon if I remember correctly. I think this one was normal black, not intense.


This one was silver cinnamon and silvered ivory. I think I did a few too many layers of dots, it looks kind of squished. Still looks pretty neat though.


This is the one with the psyche and intense black. It definitely didn't work. Maybe if I had reduced the psyche a bit better. As it is, it is acting like a purple transparent, which is getting lost.


Vortex pendant - I thought this came out pretty cool! This one was just silvered cinnamon. It wasn't really reduced. I think I tried but didn't do it enough or something. Still it's a pretty colour unreduced, too.


Here are two examples of psyche coming out too dark. The first was using psyche stringer on black, encased with clear, then pressed. I think if I had covered a bit more of the base with stringer decoration, and reduced it more, it might have popped better. The second was a psyche base with translucent stringer, covered with clear. I think I just didn't reduce it enough.


This is an example of psyche looking almost pastel-y. This is what seems to happen if I reduce too fast. If I remember right, what I did for this on was make a base bead with psyche, put some translucent blue stringer on and melt in, let it cool until not glowing, and then heat it up real fast in a reducing flame. Then encase.


Here are two beads made with psyche using the technique described above. The one on the left is encased in a pale purple (I think it was pale lavender?), the one on the right is encased in clear.


And here are two more psyche beads using different encasings, and a different reduction technique. These ones were reduced slower. The base bead of psyche with translucent blue stringer was done the same, and again it was let to cool until the glow was gone. But this time, instead of heating them up super fast in a reducing flame, I put it in until I saw the surface start to react, then pulled it out, and repeated a few times (without really cooking the bead). The first bead was encased in clear, the second in crystal green (a very pale transparent green). They were then both rolled in a strip of silver foil, which I basically burned right off (my technique for foil is to roll the bead in it, rub it into the marver to really attach it, let it cool, and then waft it in the outer part of the flame until the actual foil is gone, and what remains is little droplets of silver and a burnished look). What is interesting is that the silver reacted with the crystal green to give a yellowy look, I didn't really like it that much. I preferred the clear encasing.