It's funny, because in these pictures these canes look HUGE. In reality, they are about 3mm, or about 4 times the diameter of the lead in an automatic pencil. I'll leave the blue canes pretty much as they are, as they'll be stippled on, but the green striped canes will be pulled down quite a bit smaller. "Pulling them down" involves reheating the cane, and stretching it out a bit, so it's thinner in diameter. I also use this reheating/pulling process to make the cane look more random when applied - rather than the nice, straight, neat cane you see here, it will be bumpy, wavy, more like mother nature intended. These will be painted on to the bead - think about making a long comma stroke, but with glass.Of course, it's not all naturalistic - if you look closely at the striped cane close-up (the cane closest to the bottom), you can see the tiny stripe of goldstone I added...in the picture, it looks kinda like pixelization, but it's not - it's sparkle!
I made most of the blue canes last night - all except the darkest blue. I made those and both sets of green cane, light and dark, at 5:30 this morning. I'm ready to make bluebonnet beads first thing Saturday morning!
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