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2009 -
JANUARY MARGIE DEEB & KRISTY NIJENKAMP
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As
our January Meeting we were very lucky to have a presentation by Margie Deeb
who is an author of four extraordinary books, a well known beader, a monthly
columnist, and a teacher. For more information about Margie, her books and
her work, go to her website at
www.margiedeeb.com.
Presenting with Margie was Kristy Nijenkamp a Southern Flames lamp
worker who specializes in custom orders and has contributed to several of
Margie's books. In the photos below Margie is on the left and Kristy is on
the right.
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The theme of the
presentation was "Finding Inspiration Anywhere". As Margie
wrote
"Look around you: color
inspiration is everywhere. When you grasp the importance of
color properties and the power of proportions, you can take
any scheme you find, put yourself into it, and create unique
color palettes expressive of your color voice." The
presentation was based on Margie's latest book The
Beaders Color Palette and she brought color wheels and
all of her books for members to browse. If you are not
familiar with Margie's writing, you can
click
here to read some of her columns which she
publishes under the name "Margies Muse".
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Margie and
Kristy showed us many examples of photos and the beads and or jewelry
that the photos inspired. Below is a necklace made by Margie
inspired by a photo from the King Tut exhibit. The color analysis
that Margie does is shown to the left of the photo.
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Two more
examples of Margie's jewelry resting on the photos that inspired them.
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In this photo
Margie shows how a photo of spices inspired one of her signature
beaded pieces. A closer look at the photo and the necklace is at
the right.
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Here Margie explains how important
it is not only to identify the colors in a photo but also to guage the
proportion of each color. To make her point she showed us two drawings
of beads. The colors are exactly the same but the proportions of
each color are very different.
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Kristy Nijenkamp often
works from fabric samples when she is making custom beads and
jewelry for clients. Below is one of Kristy's beads and the jacket
that inspired it.
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Another example of fabric inspired beads made by Kristy.
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The beads in this bracelet were made
made by Kristy using the colors found in the desert photograph.
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In Kristy's part of the presentation
she discussed the methods she uses to create the colors she needs to
match the color of a photo or fabric. Techniques she uses to
expand the limited color palette available to lampworkers include color
mixing, color layering, using frit. She showed us sample cards and
sample strands of test beads that she used to keep track of her
experiments. The glowing colors in the blue bead was shown below
were made by mixing and layering colors.
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Two examples of the cards used
by Kristy Kristy to track her experiments in mixing and layering colors.
She recommends Chapter 7 in Drew Frit's book Torchworked Marbles
for help with color mixing.
Click here
for a reference to it.
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Thank you Margie and Kristy for a
wonderful presentation!! And there are even more photos from link
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