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2010 -
FEBRUARY MEETING
CAITLIN HYDE DEMO
(Photos by Fred Fuerst)
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We were honored to have
Caitlin Hyde at our February meeting. After teaching all day, she
stayed for our meeting and showed the group how to make a pictorial bead that
she did not make in either of her classes.
The bead that Caitlin
made at the demo had a crow on the front and a mandela on the back. She
paints these "pictures" using simple shapes masked with lines or
dots and/or pulled into points or curves. Note the twisted stripes
on the ends of the bead - this is a signature design component that is found on
many of Caitlin's beads.
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That is
Caitlin Hyde - a beautiful photo of a beautiful lady taken by
Fred Fuerst who took all of the demo photos on this page.
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Caitlin always starts her base bead
by making a large gather of glass.
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The gather is rolled into a barrel
shape. Then the barrel is elongated into a tube by adding glass
and working one end at atime. This techniqu
requires careful monitoring of the heat on the bead surface and the
bead core.
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One end of the
bead is worked at a time. The other end is cool. Here
Caitlin is straightening up the ends.
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The
base bead is made of black glass and 2 ivory stripes are laid at the end
of the beads and marvered into bands.
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Lines of black stringer run from one
black end to the other. Caitlin says that if the stringer breaks when
you are laying it down, it means that the base bead surface is not warm
enough.
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The lines are melted in and another
band of ivory is laid at the bead midline, and marvered in.
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The ends are shaped a bit and allowed
to cool.
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The center of the bead is heated
thoroughly
and then the marvered in one direction only.
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This creates the stripes on both ends.
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The base bead is flattened and
Caitlin is ready to draw the crow and the mandela.
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The faces of the flattend bead are
heated to get rid of the chill marks.
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The body of the bird is made by laying
down a curved line of glass. Small areas are heated and shaped
into points by using an ivory stringer to pull on the ivory background.
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The mandela is started with a large
dot and 2 crossing stringers.
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Note that Caitlin works on one side of
the bead and then lets it cool. While it is cooling she turns the
bead over and draws on the other side. This careful control of
heat if important for creating the crispness in the shapes that Cailin
draws. Here the body of the crow is added and the tail drawn out.
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Again the bead is turned over and an
ivory dot added to the center of the black one and pressed in by
carefully heating and cooling it.
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Back to the crow side to make the
wings.
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The feet are added with small lines of
stringer which are then pulled at the bottom to create the birds's feet.
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A black do is added to make the beak.
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An even smaller ivorydot is placed half on
the black dot and then pulled into points. Voila! a beak.
Caitlin's techniques are pure magic.
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The bird is complete.
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An eye and a moon are created using
dots - the eye is white overlaid with black and the moon is black
overlaid with white.
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This photo of the completed bead was
taken the day after the demo when it came out of the kiln.
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