February 2024 Creativity Challenge
Pantone Color of the Year!
Congratulations to Grace Hobbs!
As bead artists and jewelry designers, utilizing these trends can help you tap into a new market and enhance your creativity.
PANTONE 13-1023 Peach Fuzz captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It's a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul.
Read More about the Color Selected for this year HERE.
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Artist Statement
I love the ISGB Pantone challenges. The technique for this bead uses transparent enamels that fit with Effetre glass. The color palette for these transparent colors is very limited. To create new colors I have to layer different colors and also vary the thickness of the enamel layers. Heat and timing also play a role in determining color, clarity and tone. Trying to get a specific color (like Peach Fuzz) means lots of experimenting. Results can sometimes be very unexpected (also known as maddening) and a lot of the new colors I end up making can seem almost accidental or, as I prefer to think of them, magical. Luckily most are repeatable. My New Year's resolution for 2024 is to keep good notes and label everything. Wish me luck.
Cindy Jenkins is affiliated with the St. Louis Lampworker Society Chapter and is a Hall of Flame ISGB Member.
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Living in the South, February is the time of year that I really start looking for signs of Spring, which is my favorite time of the year. We see buds popping up and flowers starting to blossom. I thought with this challenge, I'd show a couple of ways that I tried to make this color. My Carnelian flower is a little pinker than I expected and perhaps might have used a little more white and clear to make it more translucent. Another way would be to see carnelian mixed maybe with ivory or a very light opal yellow to perhaps get it a little peachier. I'd even consider trying some straw yellow transparent in the place of the clear. I love experimenting. The CIM Desert Rose is the closest, but I know it's been out of production for a long time. I hope other entrants will tell us how they achieved the colors that they use.
Marcy Lamberson is affiliated with the Southern Flames Chapter and is a Lifetime ISGB Member.
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Tumble-etched Hollow Sweet Peach with shards and spacers.
Lisa Jo Bass, a/k/a The Booglett, is a Texas-based artist specializing in various artistic mediums, including painting, design, glass, and sewing. Lisa is a natural creator who hones her detail-oriented skills to create one-of-a-kind pieces that others will cherish for years. Lisa’s 20+ year experience in lampworking has taken her from apprentice to sought-after teacher. When she is not working out of her home studio, she is an instructor at Blue Moon Glassworks in Austin where she teaches classes and assists renowned international guest artists. Lisa is also a wife to her husband, Ken, and mother to their daughter, who has inherited the “art gene.” She loves spending time with her family at home being creative together, playing games, and watching MMA!
Lisa Jo Bass is an ISGB Member.
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This peachy glass got lighter in the kiln, but made a pretty chain. It is Boro.
Jeri Warhaftig is a Hall of Flame ISGB Member.
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Peach is probably my favorite color. It’s subtle. It’s not in your face like red or pink but still has a wonderful warmth to it.
About a year or so ago, I found a beautiful Effetre color called Sweet Peach, which inspired my hollow ice cube beads that are my February creativity submission.
Carol Personte is an ISGB Member.
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Hello, I send you a photo of my ring top, peach and rainbow colours with one of my rainbow murrini.
Have nice day.
Dorry Spoo is an ISGB Member.
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The Pantone color of the year is not one that I use often, but was useful in this project. I enameled the copper stars and sand dollars....and that fleshy pink was just the ticket for detail on the sand dollars.
Cynthia Konow-Brownell is an ISGB Member.
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I've been making beads for almost 30 years. Round beads, square beads, short beads, long beads. Beads of all colors and metals. Until now. A little less than two years ago I was inspired to attempt sculpting the native birds i saw at the feeders. Then a class with Kim Fields added some tricks and techniques that enhanced what I was trying to accomplish. After that class I took a deep dive into sculpting flowers. This is my seventh attempt at a more complex flower.
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Pantone - peach fuzz: here is my bunny rabbit sculptural glass with ears and nose that look like peach fuzz to me! I used CIM Chai over Effetre white. The tummy is Effetre transparent peach. I love making these little guys!
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These beads were made with a base of CIM unique ginger, wrapped with coils of an old Effetre orange then rolled in peach enamels. Coils were melted in, beads were shaped, then wrapped in peachy dichroic, murrini and fine silver mesh were added next, then finally gold leaf was applied.
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I made this bead with Bullseye glass. The base is opalescent mint with many added shades of green. The peach flower is burnt orange and apricot tint.
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I decided I don’t really care for peach fuzz color. But I do have a hankering for peaches now. Will have to wait 'til they're in season. Here’s my version of a slice of peach. Carnelian is one of my favorite colors though. Seems kinda peachy in my mind.
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I struggled with the peach color because this isn't a color I use very often. I chose to use peach frit on clear with some dichroic and random silver glass to create some sparkle and depth. The peach color doesn't come through as much as I wanted, but you can see it in the swirls.
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I made this simple flower murrini with light topaz transparent (Effetre 012) and dark pastel pink (Effetre 256) to create the Fuzzy Peach color. It turned out a bit more yellow when photographed. The picture is taken with an iPhone under natural light by a window. No enhancements other than to make sure the color temperature matches what appears under the normal room light.
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I made a set of baubles with transparent peach over white, decorated with purple rosettes and buds as well as sage green vines and leaves. This set was etched, the color turned out rather light but still peachy.
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I am inspired by the colors in the world around me. I have always dabbled in crafts, but I feel I took a serious step towards becoming an artist when I discovered lampworking at a class at our local community college twenty years ago. I was hooked by its possibilities and the way the color moved and melted with other colors. I am inspired by the artists I network with in ISGB and am excited to be a new member. This is my entry for Peach Fuzz; it's a peach with two leaves, made out of Lauscha Peach and etched.
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I really love Peach Fuzz as a color, but I never think to use it in my beads (with the exception of opossum toes and tails!). I started by doing all sorts of layering experiments to find the right tone match… transparents over opaques, enamels, frits, all to no avail! Then I remembered I already had the perfect color in rod form: CiM Ginger! I made a few other beads but this one was the best by far. I built a base cylinder of CiM Ginger, then rolled the center in Raku frit and added a band of Ginger down the middle to create a negative space center line. Then I added my fine lines and dots in Reichenbach deep black and finished with dots of CiM Troi.
I love these challenges because they limit the overwhelming amount of options I have in creating work. Putting on blinders or adding self imposed restrictions to accomplish a specific art goal is something I find extremely helpful in the creation process. I love having all the options in the world at my fingertips, but it’s easy to get lost in the possibilities and never make a thing!
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After experimenting with various rods in my stash that were labeled "peach", the two I chose were the only ones which actually looked close. I have been making beads since 2003 and have searched for this color many times. These were actually covered with Thompson enamels. The rods I own are either too orange or too pale. Some turned brown with heat. I don't do shows anymore but send beads to Beads of Courage and still just love making beads.
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As a glass artist, I am captivated by the dynamic interplay of light, color, and form that emerges from the molten glass. My work seeks to explore the delicate balance between control and spontaneity, allowing the glass to express its inherent qualities while shaping it into beads.
Beads are made with Lauscha peach and silver glass. The photo looks more orange than the actual color of the beads.
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Pantone color of the year is PEACH FUZZ… This is my translation of it into glass. The hue “echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection" and I want to be OH SO CLOSE to this necklace!
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"Looking for peaches"
Whew! Peach is an elusive colour. I had great fun trying to find it. I didn't have anything like - so had to hand mix the glass (coral and lemon meringue ) or use enamel (pink and sand) to varying degrees of success. These may be better etched. But a great challenge. Thank you.
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I tried lots of ways to try and get a peach colour. I think this one was DH Phaeton over Vetrofond transparent yellow.
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I layered Effetre Transparent Orange over a base of CiM Butter Pecan I had gotten years ago to make the base lentil, which I then decorated with Effetre Light Teal and Pastel Violet. The ends were made with CiM Crocus and with Effetre Ink Blue Swirls.
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Gertrude the guppy. She's just all dressed up for spring! Enjoyed trying to come up with a way to use this color. Not a fan since I once was a bridesmaid in an awful peach dress! Good luck everyone!! Thank you!
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I’m not sure I have an artist's statement. I’m not even sure I’m an artist. I’m just a woman who loves playing with glass. I love melting glass. I love watching the reactions colors have with each other, with heat, with gasses. And I love nature and the colors in nature. Looking in the kiln the next day is as much fun as waking up and seeing the day.
I’m not sure the name of the color I used here. It is an old rod and the writing is faded on the label. On the outside it almost looks like red roof tile color. When heated it changes and can almost go beige.
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I had so much fun playing with different colour combos to create a Fuzzy Peach feeling. These are my choices from many attempts.
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