Artist’s Tip -
Building a Palette of Colors for the Spring Celebration Bracelet
The button I've used in this bracelet is one-of-a-kind. I've
built the color palette of the bracelet around this special button.
You will need to do the same for the button you select. This
design will not be available as a kit because each button
is unique and will inspire a different palette of colors.
 The easiest
way to build a palette of color for this project is to examine
your button, making a note of all of the colors that you see.
For the button in the sample bracelet above, beginning in the
center, here are my notes:
- Black stamens
with turquoise tips
- Salmon/rose
flower petals that grade in color from light to dark
- Goldenrod, sage
greens and medium olivines for the leaves
- I picked a dark
brown/green for the band and the stamens of my flowers to mimic
the dark stamens on the button.
- I then picked
three colors (light to medium in tone) and finishes (matte, luster
and color lined) of green beads to give interest to the leaves.
- The flowers
were really fun, using the button as inspiration I picked two
colors of rose, two of goldenrod and three in turquoise all from
a light to a medium tone with a mix of finishes. You can’t
go wrong!
 About the beautiful button!
The beautiful
button used on the bracelet above is by Gregory J. Hanson. Greg
is a self-taught glass lampworker, living in Portland, OR. Working
with a specialized torch and borosilicate glass tubes and rods,
he creates a wide range of blown art glass, as well as, solid
forms to include buttons. His lampworking techniques emulate
the offhand glassblowing process of blowing and manipulating
a “gather” of glass at the end of a glass tube. Also,
a seedbeader, Greg is now combining his glass with beadwork.
Visit Greg’s website at www.hanson-stone.com
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Happy beading,
Cynthia
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