Fugly Beads

I've tried a lot of media over the years. Frankly if I had to guess I'd say my true love might've been embroidery, or comics, but it never occurred to me I could make a living doing either of those. But if all the dabbling has taught me nothing else, it has made clear to me that the reason that the classifieds traditionally seek people with `3 yrs exp' is that it takes about that long to get to what I call journey[wo]man status---i.e. a decent grasp of the materials and technique.

Along the way, you should be having some spectacular failures. As one of my favorite drawing instructors said, you're gonna make a 1000 bad drawings. Get 'em out of the way, early in your career. Be bold!

Well, failure I can do, and this collection of pages documents some of the ones bad enough to be fun. I hope, anyway.

A new collection of failed experiments, hideously ugly beads and other screwups. It's my sense of humor, I guess. Directory created 11apr08.

The very first beads I made with the Color is Messy pallette. Made in October, originally posted 16nov07.

More Gathering goodies, v. 2007, including some just-a-demo-ugly tests. Originally posted 16aug07.

What sandblasting can do to glass beads. Originally posted 29mar07

A not terribly successful series of Bullseye dichro focals, which at least attempts to document how I refine my ideas throughout the design process. Late 2006.

Early, ugly, and therefore inspirational efforts created 29may05

index created 29nov06, added fridayfugly 12apr08.

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