Out of the Studio

Last week I blogged about my hollow bead beginnings.  I had purchased Christine Dumont's tutorial on making hollow beads back when she offered the online class.  I knew I would be make these large beads eventually, it was just a matter of time. This technique is a lot of fun, yet totally addicting.  I posted my first bead here.   If you haven't taken Christine's online class, I see that it's being offered again in November.  I think the class was extremely well done (not affiliated with her - just a fan of her work) and would highly suggest it. 

Anyway, as a lot of you know, I've been playing with imitating stones here, here and here.  So I wanted to make some hollow beads with that in mind.  I tried to create a similar pattern of either rose quartz or rhodochrosite.  I wasn't working with any images - just what was in my head.  But here are some images of them both.

                                                                  
                                                                              Rose Quartz

                                                                     Rhodochrosite

And here are my beads.  Getting there?