Creating Color Combinations

This week’s Flam­ing Hot Tips Tues­day asks how we come up with color com­bi­na­tions when work­ing with glass. Some­times I’ll have a color com­bi­na­tion in mind based on some­thing I’ve seen lately; some­times I’ll just use col­ors that “feel” right for the cur­rent sea­son. As an exam­ple, I’ve been doing a lot lately with autumn-​type oranges, rusts, greens, and browns that I nor­mally don’t do much with.

Some­times, though, I’ll decide to make a boro cane or twisty by start­ing with a rod of clear, and then just grab­bing what­ever rod of color my hand hap­pens to fall on (whether that rod is on my table or in my bucket) and smoosh­ing a stripe of it onto the clear. When I do that, I don’t even think about what color I’m grab­bing; I just grab and go. I did that a cou­ple of weeks ago at Hot Time in the Moun­tains on Sun­day morn­ing when I was get­ting ready to pack up. I finally used that twisty a few days ago for some beads, and they are amaz­ingly bright and vibrant, just because I grabbed col­ors that, if I had actu­ally THOUGHT about it, I never would have put together.

Pic­ture will fol­low shortly.