{"id":1966,"date":"2011-06-18T04:21:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?page_id=1966"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T02:02:17","slug":"saturday-school-4-pivot-beads-and-watercolor-beads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/workshops\/tutorials\/color-inspirations-exercises\/saturday-school-4-pivot-beads-and-watercolor-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"Pivot Beads (p.36)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tricksy_gnome.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"tricksy_gnome\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/tricksy_gnome.jpg\" alt=\"tricksy_gnome\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>This pivot bead strand is up on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tricksy_gnome\/\">tricksy_gnome&#8217;s Flickr site<\/a>.\u00a0 A beautiful combination of colors!<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">1. \u00a0Be sure to check your pasta machine settings to find the thinnest manageable setting. Run some scrap through from thick to thin until the clay starts tearing as it comes out of the pasta machine. Go back one setting and that is the thinnest manageable setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">2. \u00a0If your colors are getting too grayed out &#8211; sheet the color that is going to be washed at a slightly thicker setting on the pasta machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The idea for the pivot beads came when I started using canes as the underlayer for\u00a0my watercolor technique.<\/p>\n<p>The original watercolor beads were made for the silent auction at the second Ravensdale conference in 1998. Lindly and I were teaching a three day color workshop together and the first evening\u00a0I showed her some of my early color washing experiments. At the time I was using a pre-mixed\u00a0palette of Fimo colors that had foil leaf mixed in. We didn&#8217;t have any Fimo white clay so we grabbed some Sculpey II and ran very\u00a0thin sheets of the Fimo over thick sheets of Sculpey.\u00a0The resulting\u00a0sheets looked very much like watercolor on paper so we tore them into\u00a0bits to cover balls of scrap clay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/waterbeadssm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"waterbeadssm\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/waterbeadssm.jpg\" alt=\"waterbeadssm\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> Since I\u00a0needed something to donate to the silent auction, we very quickly made a collection of beads and sent them off to the auction coordinators. They were a big hit! The next night\u00a0a few\u00a0friends came down to our studio\u00a0to help make more beads. The crew included Pier Volkous, Elise Winters, and Cynthia Toops, plus Lindly and I.\u00a0 As you can imagine &#8211; the beads were gorgeous!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pivot bead strand is up on\u00a0tricksy_gnome&#8217;s Flickr site.\u00a0 A beautiful combination of colors! TIPS 1. \u00a0Be sure to check your pasta machine settings to find the thinnest manageable setting. Run some scrap through from thick to thin until the clay starts tearing as it comes out of the pasta machine. Go back one setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7054,"parent":1728,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1966","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1966\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}